In The Leavers By Lisa Ko is about a young Chinese Boy named Deming from a city called Bronx located in New York. he lives in a small apartment with his mother and family friends who has a boy Deming’s age named Michael. His mother works in a salon and doesn’t come till night. Deming’s mother says she got a new job in Florida but he doesn’t want to move. Later on his mother does not come home from work and disappears with no notice. Now that his mother has left him he stayed with the family Vivian, Leon, and Michael but they could no longer afford him because of Leon moving to work in China and Michael, so Vivian put him in foster care and he found a new family to live upstate with, Kate and Peter Wilkinson. He then changed his name to Daniel Wilkinson and got adopted.
One quote from my book The Leavers,“By July Demings mother had been gone for 5 months. Ever since February day she disappeared he had been waiting for a sign that she’d come back, even a sign that she was gone forever.” ( Ko 35 ). With no contact or information about Demings mother not knowing where she is or what she is doing or how she is doing he misses her more. He calls her on the phone but never gets through, he is worried and just wants to hear from her.
One quote from the TED talk I chose from 3 questions to ask about your U.S Citizenship, “ I was born in the Philippines. When I was 12 my mother sent me to live with my grandparents.” (Vargas). Vargas' grandparents live in America who have U.S citizenship and are immigrants from the Philippines. Even though he moved to the states at a young age Vargas gets told that he should have come to America the right way.
Being away from your parents at a young age is hard but it can teach you how to be more independent. So my question is why is it important to have family support in the transition to a new place?
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