Throwaway Analysis

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In China, a policy limits couples to having only one child. The reason for this peculiar law is the massive amount of overpopulation China has experienced. However, this has created a problem. In Chinese society, boys are considered more useful to the family they are born to. With the rule being only one child per couple, parents can become desperate. They may find a way to dispose of an unwanted girl through committing infanticide to make room for a boy. In some cases, girls may be abandoned at an orphanage. The story this essay on is weaved around is about the life of one such girl. We become acquainted Grace Dong Mei Parker. Grace was born in China and abandoned at orphanage, but was adopted by Canadian couple during infancy; the couple …show more content…
She fells trapped in a limbo trying to choose between being Canadian and being Chinese, but finds herself un able to be either. However, when she reaches the age of 18 , she embarks on a journey that will change her life forever: A journey to find her biological parents. On her search across China, Grace's hatred begins to melt away and she begins to embrace her original ethnicity and culture, and learns to accept her ethnicity and self identify, accepting that both her Canadian and Chinese heritage are an important part of her. Three essential events help foster this change within Grace throughout the novel Throwaway Daughter by Ting-Xing Ye. These events are her childhood in Canada, the meeting of her father's side of the family, and her time spent with Chun Mei, her …show more content…
The hatred for China has already melted, and now she begins to learn about her family, and most importantly the story of how she was abandoned, " 'Please', I begged, 'Let me hold my baby just once!'…'Give me my daughter', I shrieked, ' It's not her fault let her live!" (Ye pg. 269). That is just an excerpt of what Chun Mei went through trying to save Grace from death. When Grace learns that Chun Mei put her life and family's wellbeing on the line to save her from a terrible death, she begins to find closure. She realizes that the true reason she was abandoned wasn't because of Chinese culture, it was because of individual people such as her father's family. Chun Mei left Grace at that orphanage because she loved her so much she was willing to endanger her own life to save her daughter, and Grace sees that. She finally begins to truly enjoy China, the food, family, and the culture. However one last event finalizes this change, a connection that might not have been made if she hadn't made Chun Me. In this scene on the plane ride home Grace is watching a documentary, "A Vietnamese woman ran towards an already heavily laden helicopter that hovered several feet off the ground ready to hover away out of the machine gun fire… She reached out and shoved a baby into the arms of an American man… I have only met one hero in my life… she is Chun Mei, my mother." (Ye, 295) While hatching this documentary
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