Min’s weaknesses
In “Hunger”, Chang address a story of an immigrant family in America. Throughout the story, multiple conflicts happen within this family. There are the culture differences between Tian and her younger daughter, Ruth and the goal differences in Tian’s and Min’s goals in life. These differences soon become fractures in the family relationships surface, starting to spread further and deeper into the family structure. While Ruth and Tian are blind with their obsessions with perfection and individuality, Min, Tian’s wife and Ruth’s mother, has enough power to heal the family, but she allows her passiveness hide away her voice and her feelings. It leads to the lack of communications between her and Tian, and takes away her abilities to fix the fractures in her family, to the point that the only thing she can do is watch as her family falls apart.
Coming to America, Min feels the remoteness of the new place and the lack of family members makes it impossible......
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