family reflection question

Like many other questions that relate to family life, it almost always depends. It depends on how you define “honor”. Of course you should show respect towards your family. It is rude and wrong to not honor what your family does for you. It takes loads of effort and sacrificice  to hold a family and especially tiring for raising a child (usually). Parents dedicate their time of freedom to the family. They have more work to cover which could greatly shrink the possible time for pleasure. This is why parents should be honored and respected. The purpose of their decisions is to improve the life of a family, even if they might not sound right or fair. But, there are situations where the decisions are made for a bad cause or unnecessary. This is where the question can be shaky and turned against. Families many times follow a tradition or culture. Children, however, many times wish to follow the culture of their day than their parents’ style.

For the most part, Popo was strongly in support of the fact about honor. Whenever her the son disobeyed the honor code to adults, she became tempered and unusually violent. She slapped, pushed and spat in Ani-Mei’s son whenever he seemed to dishonor in any way. Ani-Mei, however, was not such a fan of their honor code. She in a sense was a rebel. She wanted to move to the United States and start a new life with a new family. she did not care if her children knew any Chinese. But there is a part in the chapter “scar” where she strongly honored her family. She chopped off a piece of her flesh for a soup, some kind of tradition. This would most likely not be done if she was such a rebel. All that pain is not worth it for a rebel. However, there are some possible reasons for this. Maybe she wanted to make it up for all those rebel years. She might have changed her thoughts on the account of family honor, now believing that it is more important.