When i first started to read our slection of "From Silence to words: Writing as a struggle" it was unclear to me what exactly Lu's message was. After reading through the essay and scaning through it again it's obvious that language and literacy had a great effect on shaping Lu's life. She was at constant battle with herself to know what was "the right thing to say" when she was with her family or with the outside world. Her parents were obviously pushing her towards the ideals of traditional western society. At the same time everyone in the world around her was forceing her towards a society governed by marxism. Lu was constantly looking for a language to call her own, and throughout the essay she refered to her "home" language (english) as her orginal. I think that she grew up with both languages (english and standard chinese) equally and neither of them were her orginal. Other then that i found the essay to be very interesting.
After reading the essay i felt both anger and appraisal for Lu. I felt angry because Lu had to grow up scareed of what she wrote in all of her school reports. She was living in an enviroment where she could never speak her mind and feel comfortable about it. I also had appraisal for Lu because she strived though that rough time in her life and was able to come out on top.
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