What is important to Wang's mother based on the story she tells him at the beginning of American Born Chinese is:
A. Education
She tells the story of a mother and a son who tends to imitate what he sees around him, in the first part they lived next to a market place and the song played as a market seller, second they moved next to a cemetery and the son played burning incense and praying to the dead, third they moved next to a university and the son spent his time studying and reading, the mother decided to stay there for a long time.
<span>The “. . . the water fell through the
light from sundown like August rain that fell while the sun was still shining” is
the excerpt from Leslie Marmon Silko's story "The Man to Send Rain
Clouds" that contains a simile.</span>
Because the novelists or narrator, has been fighting and haunted by bad dreams for many years and he has seen many people die over the years. As a results the dead are never far from his memory. These descriptions are intended to show how being surrounded by the unburied bodies affects him emotionally and psychologically.
