mike & Min-Zhaun

When we look at Lu's essay we are brought about a girl and her mother and how her mother regrets certains things like the regretting the way she brought Lu and her sisters up. Lu is faced with a challenged, tensions that are growing between home an school. The language she speaks at home is not te same language that is being taught in school, so one might say she is getting the best of both worlds, but to Lu she isn't. In this essay Lu explains her struggles she has with writing nd how she must balance between the two.
In Mike's essay we see a professor, who has worked hard teaching and tutoring students. This essay was taken from his book LIves On the Boundary, and we see his account of what it was growing up in LA. We see him making a point, by explaining and giving examples on school failures. I like the way it started by saying that he thanks Gods for letting him comeback to school and being able to seek the dream he wants. I think that is a powerful statement because here we can see that he is well aware of the consequences of not getting an education. Ironically in Lu's essy she is thankful as well when she says "I am greatful for the overwhelming complexity of the circumstances in which I gew up..." Here we see that instead of regreting her past Lu is embracing it and looking at the good outcomes that have come out of it.