“Son, I know that you do not like your Chinese eyes, which are my eyes. I know that you do not like your Chinese hair, which is my hair. But can you understand how much joy your very existence brought to me? And can you understand how it felt when you stopped talking to me and won’t let me talk to you in Chinese? I felt I was losing everything all over again.”

This passage showed that his mother knew that Jack was different compared to others and that she cherished them but he didn’t and she wondered why. A message that I noticed at the end of the passage was that you have to cherish and don’t overestimate what you have because you will miss them once they’re gone. In the beginning of the text, Jack was excited to get origami from his mother and play with them for hours on end. His mother would say things to him in Chinese and he was okay with it and responded to it. But once people came to his house for dinner they noticed that his mother doesn’t speak english and would talk about her, making unnecessary remarks. When Mark came over, one of the neighbors, he would come with his star wars toys. When he saw Jack’s origami, he didn’t consider them toys. He told Jack that he doesn’t look like a “Chink” and that’s when Jack started to act different. He got bullied at school because of his mother so he started to ignore her when she would speak in Chinese. He would yell at her to speak English because everyone else does it. Jack also didn’t consider the origami as a toy so his dad got him a Star Wars toy like Mark. Jack’s mother had cancer and she was in the hospital and eventually passed away. his dad even moved out of the house. Jack would eventually have a girlfriend so he would move with her. His girlfriend admired his mother’s origami and was the one that reminded Jack that his mother’s origami was amazing. He found them in his house and noticed that his mother had left messages for him in them. He finally read how she felt and he remembered how much he loved his mother and how special her things were.