Objective Summary:
             The story is about a child's expectance of a family
             life filled with love and comforts, which is contrast
             with his real working class family life.
            
             Subjective Evaluation:
             Soto, back to his age of nine, dreamed to live in a
             family life that was uncomplicated in its routine. In
             reality, Soto lived in a working class family; he
             tried to change his family to imitate the "perfect
             families" he absorbed from television. I think many
             people have done what Soto did to fulfill the dream of
             a perfect family they wanted. I am not excluded from
             this either.
             I have an experience of attempting to change my
             family life. It was one year later after my family
             first came to the US in 1995. I learned many new
             things in this country that I never knew in China, and
             I appreciated some living styles in American culture.
             As I tended to like the styles of American life, I
             expected my family like them, too. The thing I wanted
             my family to change was the cooking style. I hated to
             cook Chinese dinner because it took so long to
             prepare. There are four kinds of food which are
             considered essential parts of Chinese dinner: rice,
             soup, vegetable, and meat; they are usually cooked
             separately. I was not the one who was good at
             cooking in my family, but I did have to cook when I
             came home earlier than my parents and two sisters
             still at work. One day, when we were sitting together
             at the dinning table for dinner, I suggested to my
             family that we could have sandwiches and precooked
             food from the supermarket as our dinner since many
             American families do. My parents looked at me in
             bewilderment. "Son, you must be kidding, right?
             Those sandwiches and precooked food do not give you
             enough nutrition for growing up," my dad said. "And
             precooked food is not good for your health," my mother
             kept on. My elder sisters showed no interest in my
             idea. I grew frustrated from their reaction, but...