Sunday, February 21, 2010
Coming Home Again
In the story of Coming Home Again, the author Chang-rae Lee perfectly uses food as a true representation of the importance of family. Lee, and his family are of Korean descent and stay true to their cultural background, including the traditional foods. His mother represents their culture perfectly, by the way she speaks, traditional values and cooking. Food is a source of socialism for this family, conversations are at their peak at the dinner table. While Lee’s mother is terminally ill from stomach cancer, he uses her traditional Korean foods to comfort her. Even though, he knows his cooking will never compare to his mothers, he tries and that’s what makes her happy. Some of Lee’s most prominent memories involve food, including when his mother brought food up to him at boarding school and he missed it so much that he made himself sick from eating so much. Like many traditions and cultures, such as Italians, food is a sense of comfort and family and Lee’s family is no different.
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"In the story of Coming Home Again, the author Chang-rae Lee perfectly uses food as a true representation of the importance of family."
ReplyDeleteVery strong opening sentence. He clearly and vividly described the food and how it brought back memories of what family meant to him.
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ReplyDeleteI really like how you said that “…even though he knows his cooking will never compare to his mothers, he tries and that’s what makes her happy…” because I totally agree with that. And how when his mother brought food up to him and he would eat so much he would be sick. They might not seem like a really close family but I feel like people show their feelings in different ways, so food might be theirs!
Niki
The author did a good job describing how food brought his family together at the table and how important that was to him. It was not just tradition it was his family time. It is what brought them together to discuss the day and even tough his could never compare to his mothers it was still imporant to him.
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