The story "From Silence to Words; Writing as a Struggle" by Min-Zhan Zu was a very interesting story. At such a young age Zu had adapted to more than one language because her parents felt the need to make her bilingual. She was taught English and she felt as if that were her families main dialect even though it was not be spoken outside of the household. Around the age of 4 Lu attended a private school where she had learned standard chinese. This is the language she was to use in the classroom. Lu would always question herself about why her teacher was never open to many things and was restricted to what she could teach. Like how she was restricted to only speaking standard chinese. This is a factor as to why Lu could never find answers to her questions. As years of schooling rolled by, Lu had come to realize and understand the american word "class." Not the understanding of being in a classroom, but understanding social and working classes. When she finally adapted and understood everything, her outlook on life was rather different because she now actually knew what it meant. After reading this story i felt bad for Lu. I didn't like the fact that she had grown up and been pushed around to do everything the way it was supposed to be. She was living in an communist area where she couldn't speak her mind without having to worry about something she said. But overall Lu had become very successful over the years and got a chance to share her story with many individuals throughout the country.

In the essay by Mike Rose, he pretty much describes how even though some people like the poor have deficiencies with language and such, they are still able to learn and gain conception of what they are doing. It is possible to change their ways as long as they strive to do so. Deficiencies do not always contradict with performance. He explained how there was problems with students and comprehension. The two essays relate to on another because each desribes how students and teachers can contradict one another. I think these stories very well fit a famous quote by Albert Einstein "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry." It is basically describing that how teachers and teaching methods never really answer the curiousity of question. I relate it to both of these because both Lu and Rose seem to question themseleves very much and wonder why teachers or instructors can only answer some questions but not all. And also why teachers are restricted to what can be taught or spoken about.