Why does it matter 2-The year of the rooster- Bon-Wai Chou

In this story the author portrayed a very deep story about the stages of her father’s death in great detail.

The story started off by cutting to the chase. The second line in it states that her father has terminal cancer.  From the very beginning the story it could be seen as a very sad one, with the soft way the author writes and the calm way she thinks, the story could be seen as a very deep one. The author goes into the stages of her father’s death in great detail, examples of how his mind started to fade away, saying things out of context, out of line and not on the same topic at all. The honesty and detail that the author put into this, clearly stating how she felt and what he thought was very sad as for someone who hasn’t experienced death before could see that it was not a thing you want to experience.

The story was very confronting in a way that something so sad and happens to everyone is explained so clearly and detailed that it makes you feel cold. “He was in two minds; he didn’t want to stay but didn’t fell like going just yet”. The way the author writes that in a third person way makes the readers feel like they know how they feel and can feel that the pain that both the author and father feels. And finally, when her father dies, the way that she describes how she felt and what she was feeling and what she wanted to do was written so calmly that it made the reader feel sorry for her lose. The story gives readers an insight to what it feels like to lose someone at such a young age, and what you do to try make them happy and how happy it makes them to see them happy. She describes it in such a way that it makes the readers feel like they have experienced it. This story to me shows that even thought they are immigrants, and that they are of a different culture, their not so different in the way that they may look, speak and sound different, but they can still have family members die and that the pain that they feel from it is the same as if another Australian families dad died. They can still feel pain and hurt inside, even if they are different from us on the outside.