The journal reading for today is an excerpt from "Mrs. Spring's Fragrance", a novel by Sui Sin Far.
In reading the story one can immediately see the racist and trials and tribulations inherent within the life of the Chinese that came to America. The story could be described as a plea towards readers' sympathies as the reader reads about the things that the mother has to suffer as she waits for her son to be returned to her and her confidence and resolve slowly wither away. I think Far creates a strikingly painful story with the last scene as the reader sees how all of the mother's patience is rewarded. This racist and trials within the lives of the Chinese immigrants to America reveals a hard time that provides the context for the poems found in my next journal entry about Chinese poems found at Angel Island. The stories from Far and these Chinese poems show that coming to America, while a dream for most Chinese, was not without things that disillusioned many to what America had to offer or really was.
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