Prose and Poetry in "Rose of Sharon"

The assumption I was making was that the little girl was of mixed white and Asian heritage, since she has trip br profess hair. I then equated the term "Big hooter" to mean white as soundly, but after "googling" this term, I regardd it could mean African-American or Jew as well. So, it could refer, basically, to anyone who is non Korean or Asian. I then looked up data on the rise of Sharon. While it refers to many things, including a grapheme to Jesus Christ, a flower in Europe and St. John's Wort, in Korea it is the English equivalent of "mugunghwa" and is actually a hibiscus, "Hibiscus Syriacus L.," found passim Asia. According to the website I found, it "symbolizes the many glories the country has experienced and the trials and tribulations the masses have overcome" (Image of Korea http://www.koreaaward.com). After looking up these terms and rereading the piece, I began to realize that the author is making a point of saying that this mixed race child identifies herself as Korean, even if others do non. She straddles 2 worlds - Asian or Korean and Other, just as this piece of writing is neither alone poem nor completely an essay or short story. In identifying herself as Korean, she is becoming the Rose of Sharon and trying to overcome her own trials and tribulations.

After that sank in I began to realize how much(prenominal) I have in common with this little girl. While we are very different

, she is a Korean female, only child from a single parent nucleotide and I am a male from Singapore who is heaven-sent enough to still have both parents as well as siblings, our experiences are actually very common. My family came from Singapore to the joined States eight years ago, when I was young enough to steep into American culture, but old enough to feel alien and remember where I came from. There are dates when, operate to work or school, listening to music, hanging out with my friends, and poring over for my degree, I feel very American. I am partly of the melting pot of my adopted homeland. Then something result come on that will shatter that illusion.

Suddenly I will realize that as "American" as I feel, I am still perceived as "foreign" and "Other" by plenty around me. I also realize how much of my heritage I carry with me as I, for example, automatically do to nonverbal queues given off by other people or family members from Singapore. This straddling of cultures is not likely to end soon, either, as I plan to go to Asia after I graduate to crap a business position of some sort. I trust the next big economic wave is in Asia, as these countries seem to be poised on the brink of enormous things through their application of hard work and ingenuity, personality traits a lot associated with Americans. When I go back to Asia, I will not be fully Asian there either. I will always be a little foreign, just from the time I have spent in the United States. I will always be straddling at least two worlds, just as this little girl in Rose of Sharon does.

When the woman had her own mixed race daughter and know how strongly she identified as Korean, and as a Korean American, and wanted her daughter to identify with that, she understood what her mother had been through all those years ago. As an adult and a mother, she no longer feared her own heritage and wants her daughter to grow up loving kimchee as well. The final scene is grandmother and granddaug
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