Yes, I do agree with their decision to deceive her grandmother partially. Because they were only doing what they taught to do and what was culturally accepted. Because in China it is the rule for doctors to give the bad news to family members, rather than to person especially if the older. With the notion that the person might die or have heart attack, by hearing the life changing news. Lulu Wang aunt was very concern about telling her sister the bad news. Because she thinks tell her sister the new would devastate her. Having her sister unable to eat, sleep and lose interest in life. By not telling her grandmother was a way of prolonging her life. Lulu Wang stated that “The Chinese believe that mental and emotional health are completely linked to physical health”. So that was the whole premise of them lying to their grandmother, with the faith that is will cure their love one. The doctors only gave her grandmother 3 month or less to live. So they came up with an elaborate plan of getting everyone in the family together to see her before she dies. So her cousin Liang-Liang was getting married the following year, but so everyone could see her grandmother before she dies they just put the date up for the wedding 10 months early. So in order to do this her Aunt had to fake medical records and disguise the bad in the document as the “9 shadows”. Her aunt believes that her sister would appreciate that the family was lying to her. Because her grandmother herself lied to everyone also, that is how she knows she would have wanted them to lie to her also. In 2007 6 years before getting her present diagnoses she had breast cancer, and had a mastectomy. And she was wearing a prosthetic breast for 9 years. In Chinese believe they have this saying called chongxi. Chong means to rinse out and xi means joy. They believe you can just wash out misfortune and replace it with joy. So by them lying to her their grandmother it has prolong her life 3 years and counting. So I guess Chinese tradition really works. Also with some help from some expensive probiotics that their Uncle brought from Japan. But I also think someone should know that they are dying so they came tie up loose ends, maybe mend relationships and squash grudges they having been wanting to do but wasn’t the right time. And this is the perfect time to do so. Plus to prepare the family for your departure and to tell things to your family you want them to know before you live this world.
So there was a time in college when I lied and it cost me to being kicked out of the dorms. Well going to college in California I became friends with some students that just started at the school. So as we find things to do in the dorms, we thought it would be a good idea to go get some beer and bring it back to the dorms. But was we were sadly mistaken that we could boldly walk onto campus, right in front of Chief of public safety with a beer cover in brown paper bag. So we all walked down to the neighborhood beer and liquor store got beer. So the new freshmen and other students go to walk into campus, then Chief of Public Safety stop the freshmen’s in their tracks and taken the beer from out the paper bag. The freshmen students got kicked out the dorms and had only 2 weeks to finds somewhere to live off campus. So me being young and dumb I thought it would be a smart idea to fake like a had beer in a paper bag, after my homies just got pinched the other day for the same thing. So I go to the beer store and buy a Arizona Ice Tea and get it put in paper bag just like the beer from the other day. Then I walked back to dorms entering the back entrance way and as I walk through an I boldly show the paper bag with Ice Tea with in it as I show my I.D. I then started to argue with the Chief of Public yelling at him. I was pushing the Chief’s button by calling him a dickhead, then at that time he had had it. Before I could say sike! “ It’s just an Ice tea!!! He was like you’re finished, then the same day was kicked out of dorms living out of hotel. So by me lying about a beer being in a bag, it got me kicked out of dorms.
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Tamara Turner
2/20/2018 07:40:34 pm
Although, you were wrong for curing out the chief of public safety I still think it was wrong that he kicked you out of the college without even first seeing if it was actually a beer in the bag.
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Sabatino
2/22/2018 07:41:46 am
Your argumentative response provides a clear topic and supporting details. You mention:
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Maria Martin
2/23/2018 06:45:31 pm
I don't think you were in the right, but boy was that an entertaining memory to read. Thank you for sharing.
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