This is the story of a typical East Asian family. The scene moved to the United States and the identity became an immigrant, but what Koreans realized in the United States was not the American dream. No matter where they go, there is always a part of their hearts that is always in contact with the culture of their hometown. The alien society that is difficult to integrate can never become a true spiritual support. In the storm and the raging fire, they can only protect each other by relying closely on each other.
Moving from the familiar West Coast to a small and unfamiliar Arkansas town, the new home is a motor house in a wilderness, and the cracks have planted seeds from the beginning. Monica does not understand her husband's decision to invest all her savings on the farm. It is unsatisfactory to give up the stability of the West Coast in exchange for such a life. Compared with the inconvenience of life, Monica is more worried about the heart disease of her youngest son. She must always pay attention to her son. For her condition, we must raise the medical expenses for the operation as soon as possible, and this money may be beyond the reach of her and her husband’s work of checking the sex of the chicks. Therefore, Jacob decided to take a risk and brought his wife and children to Arkansas, just to avoid the job of staring at the chicken butt all his life. He hopes that his farmer’s dream can be realized here, and he firmly believes that only in this way will life have a turn for the better. In them, you can see the shadow of countless East Asian families, hardworking, forbearing, and tenacious, and each silently bears everything about the family, but the rift in the relationship will not heal itself. It will be torn apart by every quarrel about disease, poverty, and conflict. , And eventually become irretrievable.
Perhaps this is a characteristic of the East Asian family culture. They can share adversities, but cannot enjoy them together. It is the family's duty to embrace and support each other in times of crisis, but it does not mean that they can be honest and honest with each other without any concealment. That's why the wife will show exhaustion when life seems to have just appeared hope. Prior to this, her son's illness and the burden of life made her unable to stop. Only by not stopping the work at hand can she gain a little sense of life. Obviously this kind of day was not what she was looking forward to. The reunion with her mother and family reunion could only bring her short-term comfort. The duty of a wife is to fulfill her husband’s wishes and help him take care of the family. She has done her duty, but her husband has gone farther and farther on the road of dreams time and time again. It is hard not to exhaust people physically and mentally. A fire destroyed the budding hope, but unexpectedly did not destroy the family. When the immediate disaster required them to face together, all family members unanimously let go of their grievances and made self-sacrifice for the family. It is the consensus of some East Asians. This is an elegy written to East Asian immigrants. People from humble backgrounds don’t travel far away for what a grand ideal, but just to have a foothold with their families. You can say that they are like weeds, wandering around. The cress that grows arbitrarily by the stream does not have too much fate or the extra alms of life. It just grows silently and then dies quietly. When the season is short of food, people will know that eating cress can make people survive, and those who eat it will live like cress.
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