The Struggles To Be An All American Girl Analysis
Wong, “The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl” is about a girl with a Chinese ethnicity struggling to be an “All-American Girl”. She refuses to learn her native tongue. She presents a series of experiences in her story that explain her transformation from a Chinese girl to an American girl. Wong thought of her heritage as “a source of embarrassment” due to many aspects in her life that made her feel like an outsider and my friend can relate to her experiences. Wong wants to give up on what makes her different in order to be like everyone else. The story begins on talking about her two schools she attended when she was younger. She attended both an American school in the morning and a Chinese school in the afternoon due to her mother. Her