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The story is about a child's expectance of a familylife filled with love and comforts, which is contrastwith his real working class family life.Soto, back to his age of nine, dreamed to live in afamily life that was uncomplicated in its routine. Inreality, Soto lived in a working class family; hetried to change his family to imitate the "perfectfamilies" he absorbed from television. I think manypeople have done what Soto did to fulfill the dream ofa perfect family they wanted. I am not excluded from I have an experience of attempting to change myfamily life. It was one year later after my familyfirst came to the US in 1995. I learned many newthings in this country that I never knew in China, and
Evening after evening, I keptbringing up the idea at the dinning table. I hated tocook Chinese dinner because it took so long toprepare. I planned on making ham sandwiches and chicken soupfor the dinner. When herealized that, he went out to look for work; beingdifferent from him, I tried to bring up anothersubject to the family conversation. From then on, the subject of changingcooking style is never brought up to the familyconversation. My parents looked at me inbewilderment. I was not the one who was good atcooking in my family, but I did have to cook when Icame home earlier than my parents and two sistersstill at work. "Andprecooked food is not good for your health," my motherkept on. Even I could nothave another one after finishing two. Why don't they put some shark fins in it?" She refused to have another spoon. One day, when we were sitting togetherat the dinning table for dinner, I suggested to myfamily that we could have sandwiches and precookedfood from the supermarket as our dinner since manyAmerican families do. The dinner was ready and served atour usual dinnertime. That day, I went to the supermarket tobuy bread, ham, and chicken soup right after school.
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