In the story “Coming Home Again” I feel food plays an important role in the story because it is shows the author‘s belief that his mother was such an amazing cook. Her ability to take something and create such amazing things was what he cherished about his mother. He not only cherishes his mother’s cooking but was envious of it. The way that the mother kept all her recipes a secret kept the author like a student and her still like a teacher, someone to look up too and admire. Has a child growing up he wanted nothing more than to be in the kitchen cooking with her, were she said he didn’t belong. His mother was from Korea and living in a traditional home so she did all the raising of the children and caring for the home and family. The mother in the story did everything around the house and this caused problems for her to adapt to America living, but even though she didn’t have the knowledge and seemed meek in most circumstances she strived in the kitchen.
I feel that the story showed food as an important part because it brought everyone in the family together. The mother was able to strive in any situation and bring her and her son relationship closer. The writer thought it was kind of a bad joke that she had stomach cancer, but I feel that food to the mother was so much more than something that she ate. It played such important part in her relationship with her son that even if she couldn’t eat it, it was something that they could do together.
Food was definitely an important factor in the family. You are right, it brought the whole family together and even when his mother couldn't eat it, she still sat down to join the family as part of the experience. I also think that when he was eating his prepared home cooked meals at school, it was good probably because of the taste, but it was also good because it was home to him. It reminded him of home and his mother, all that he didn't have at school.
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