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Soul Searching Essay, Research Paper

In the memoir “The Girl Who Wouldn’t Sing”, Kit Yuen Quan

describes her life experiences growing up as a Chinese girl in America.

In her attempt to try and find her place in society, Quan intermingles

with several groups of people. Her interactions with a feminist group,

two young Cambodian girls, and finally her own father allow her to

explore her Chinese background and how that affects her interactions

with people. In order to find her own “voice” in a society that is not

really hers, Kit Yuen Quan explored relationships with people of

different lifestyles. She does so in order to be able to recognize how

she wants to express herself, and through which culture, American or

Chinese, if not both, she wants to do so.

When she ran away from home, Quan “sought refuge in the women’s

community working part-time at a feminist bookstore”(Quan 214). Yet,

because of her Chinese background and difficulty in understanding

language, Kit found she wasn’t as accepted as she had hoped she would

be. The fact that she could not understand many of the issues discussed

by the feminists she was surrounded by was very frustrating for Kit.

This frustration acted as a vehicle for her to gain a desire to be more

proficient in the “feminist rhetoric”(Quan 214). Although her desire to

be part of the community was strong, she continuously encountered

problems because of her age, nationality, and lack of a “formal American

education”. The frustration that Kit encountered made her feel even more

misunderstood, and she sought her voice through other communities and

experiences.

Kit’s first failed attempt to become a part of a community was

because of her inability to “properly” express herself and her ideas. In

her quest for acceptance, Quan decided to immerse herself in a

beneficial situation in which language would not be a problem, and so

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