In this short reflection story I will be reflecting on a story I wrote about called What You Don’t know by Lulu Wang. I will be taking some information that I wrote about from this story and I’m going to put some information in this reflection blog. I’m also going to be explaining how I feel about this story of What You Don’t Know. If you would like more information about this story please visit my blog post and the title is called What You Don’t Know by Lulu Wang. This story is about Lulu Wang (granddaughter), Nainai (grandmother) and family. Lulu grandmother was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and she was giving three months to live. Nainai is from China and some of Nainai relatives live in America and Japan. A few things happened within their family and how they responded was different from how my culture would have responded. NaiNai sister got the results of Nainai physical which diagnosed her with stage four cancer. So that’s how some of the family members knew about Nainai’s secret. The doctor told Nainai sister, which Lulu call her little Nainai, that she should get Nainai hospitalized. Little Nainai said her sister was too old and then she would have to tell her the bad news about her health. Little Nainai said she didn’t want her sister to know the bad news about her health because she would get depressed and won’t eat. Lulu mother told Lulu about her grandmother and explained that it wasn’t “permitted” for her to tell her grandmother about her health. Lulu was stunn. So the family is just telling NaiNai lies about her health. They want Nainai to be happy and not depressed. They did have big gathering for Nainai by having a early wedding so that everybody can spend time with her. No one said anything about Nainai’s secret.
In this story it turned out good for their family because their family accepted the lie to protect their love one. So that their love one didn’t have to go through a depression and stop eating because of hearing the bad news. That was their tradition and culture. For my culture or for me to feel good about myself I would have to tell my love one the truth. I would tell them the truth because first of all I was taught growing up tell the truth, get punished or you will feel guilty. Something as serious as of someone life, like I mentioned before I like to feel good about myself and I will want someone to tell me the truth about my condition. So telling my love one the truth about their condition for me would be the right thing to do. I wouldn’t feel guilty and it would relieve some worry. As for my love one I know they can get a chance to gather they self and say and do they last goodby’s. I believe everyone should know their condition of their because they also needs their prayers and whatever their heart desire. It’s their life they, they should no. That’s why I know it’s the right decision if it was up to me to chose to tell someone about their unhealthy condition.
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