Can someone grade my rhetorical analysis (Q2) for 2024 set 2 simu liu?
2024 Set 2 Q2
As a son of Korean Immigrants, Simu Lius story of reluctance to meet his parents were a direct mirror to my experience but in another way. I had spent my time in the United States and I had to go meet my grandparents for the first time. Just like 4 year old Simu Liu, I was shivering in my boots. However, everything turned out great. In Simu Liu's memoir, Liu employs diction of the chinese language and personal anecdotes to highlight the reluctance people have to change.
Simu Liu commences his memoir by implementing diction of the Chinese language. For example, while little Simu Liu talks to his nainia, his naina said that in Canada, you can eat whatever you want. However, Liu contradicts this and says he already has all the favorites at the “Hexinglu” (Line 15). Liu references the “Hexing Street” in Chinese in order to underscore his deep connection with that food place because Liu, faced with a choice between Canada and China, chooses his own roots by choosing to express his favorite place in Chinese. Consequently, since Liu did not Americanize the reference of his favorite place into English, Liu’s unwavering connection to his current roots is presented because he rejects the offer of being able to eat anything in Canada, an enticing offer for a four-year-old boy. Later, after dressing up by pattern clashing, Liu references his grandfather and grandmother as “gugu” and “gufu”. Overarching this memoir, Liu is an adult who lives in America currently which would affect his viewpoint from when he was back in China. So, when Liu uses the description of his grandparents in chinese instead of the american way he knows currently in 2022, Liu is showcasing how his younger self was fully connected with China and did not have a single thought of assimilating or changing even with the idea in his head that his parets levied there. Therefore, due to the fact that Liu utilizes the diction into his own language, the author reveals a deeper connection with his origins to highlight how difficult it is to change from it.
In addition to the diction of the Chinese language, Liu then advances his memoir by incorporating specific anecdotes. For example, while Liu describes his family, he specifically mentions a conversation with his grandma where his grandmother says that he will finally reunite with his parents. However, Liu says he is content with who he is now. By incorporating a real vivid anecdote of a conversation with his grandmother, Liu suggests that he has a deep connection with the people he is with right now because he knows his audience would be people of all sorts like immigrants, to be immigrants, and just random kids. So, Liu utilizes a anecdote that is vivid to portray to the audience that he is deeply connected to his story because he is using a story so specific that he remembers quotes. Consequently, if Liu were to summarize this anecdote and not attribute vivid detail, the audience and Liu would not be abe to connect as deeply to his true feeling of not wanting to even meet with his parents because he had people he already loved. Later on in his memoir, Liu then describes his meeting with his dad for the first time in a few years by putting the entire conversation in vivid detail: “You … you are Zhenning Liu” (Line 80). By putting the exact conversation that happened when he first met his dad in a long time, Liu suggests how much of a stranger like Lius dad felt to Liu because Liu was so deeply connected with what he had and did not want to change by calling this stranger “dad.” Therefore, if Liu did not implement this detailed anecdote of him speaking to his dad and saying his dad felt like a stranger, the audience would not be able to see how much Liu did not want to accept this man as his father. Furthermore, because Liu illustrated this moment in such personality, the audience is able to feel like a bystander in the moment and side with Liu in not wanting to change.
In Simu Liu's memoir, Liu utilizes chinese diction and vivid anecdotesto highlight the reluctance people have to change. This all matters to the reader because it shows just like my encounter with my grandparents for the first time in Korea, it is okay to be scared of change because it is natural.