Questions:
2 THE WORLD GROWS
1.According to Jade Snow’s parents, how should a girl behave?
2.Why should girls be educated according to Jade Snow’s father?How does he help her to be well educated?
3.When Jade Snow tells her father that she skipped a grade, her father’s only reaction is “That is as it should be.” What does it mean?What does Jade Snow think of her parents reaction?
4.How are the American ways different from the Chinese ways, as represented by Jade Snow’s mother and father?
5 LUCKY TO BE BORN A CHINESE
5.How do the Wongs celebrate the Chinese New Year? And other Chinese Americans?
6.Do you agree with Jade Snow that “it was sometimes very lucky to be born a Chinese daughter”? In what ways?
8 THE TASTE OF INDEPENDENCE
7.What is Jade Snow’s most humiliating Chinese school experience?Comment on it.
8.What is Jade Snow’s reaction to her first encounter with racial discrimination? What does it show about her character?
9.What kind of books does Jade Snow read in “American school”?How do they help to form her identity?
18 “LEARNING CAN NEVER BE POOR OR EXHAUSTED”
10.How is Jade snow’s years at Mills College inseparably colored by living at “Kapiolani,” the dean’s little brown-shingled home?
11.Does Jade Snow find the Mills College girls’ perpetual curiosity about her Chinese background and Chinese ideologies annoying, or delightful? Why?
12.In what ways is Jade Snow’s study at Mills College different from that at junior college? How does she get used to it?
13.How does Jade Snow compromise her two major identities: Fifth Daughter, and a college junior? Is the former to some extent helpful to the latter?
14.What are Jade Snow’s greatest challenges growing up in regards to inter-generational conflict and cultural conflict?
15.Why does Jade Snow Wong write her autobiography in the third person? How does she search for her identity?