Six Reflection

      In my second reflection, I mentioned that some Chinese parents prefer boys to girls. In the third part of the novel, the third brother Sek-Lung was born and he knows that Liang (the first sister) is jealous of him because Poh-Poh pays all her attention on Sek, ignoring Liang. He says to Liang that boys are better than girls. I started to think why a boy at such a young age knows that a certain gender is better than the other one, there is one way to explain this, that the way all the family member treat him make him feel like he is better than his sister. Not only the parents treat the children differently, they also misguide the children into thinking that boys are better than girls. As time goes on, when the children become parents themselves, they are likely to treat their children like the way their parents treated them, and so the vicious cycle begins.