Monday, March 4, 2013

Explain ways a person can become a willing participant in injustice when he/she is trying to be just in Janice Mirikitani's "Suicide Note."

The theme
in this poem is practicing injustice
for a just cause.

Become a willing
participant in
injustice, can be seen in Jane Mirikitani's "Suicide Note." We come to

understand that the speaker's parents haveknowingly or notgiven their daughter to
believe that
she is, as national columnist and writer Dave Barry says, "not
good enough," perhaps
the result of placing her in a position of inferiority
within a
their social norms, which drove their daughter
to take her life.


As an introduction to Mirikitani's poem,
she wrote:


An Asian American college
student was reported to have jumped to her death from her
dormitory
window...Her suicide note contained an apology to her parents for having received
less
than a perfect 4.0 GPA.

One may
understand how the Asian
(or Asian-American) parents of this woman expected
her to excel: it is not unusual for Asian
families to expect more than a
casual effort in a child's scholastic endeavors. In wanting their
child to
achieve excellence, her failure

to...


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