My American Born Chinese Essay
The first thing I noticed was that I had way more typos than usual. We were given a week to write and edit this essay by ourselves, which I’m not used to. I didn’t have as much time or diverse opinions, so it wasn’t really up to my standards. My topic was love, more specifically, how it can be both uplifting and damaging. I talked about how it caused the fall of the main character’s science project (literally), and how he ended up hurting himself and his friends. His problem was that he tried too hard to be American, and he literally turned into an American boy. He said some nasty things to his friend right before he transformed. I ended by connecting it to some Greek mythology: the story of Echo and Narcissus (which works as two examples), and the story of Apollo and Daphne. But apparently I wrote more than I meant to about that. The connection was good, though. What can I say? I’m interested!
