April 22nd, 2016, Lulu Wang participated in a podcast, This American Life. "Act One, What You Don't Know", is Lulu Wang's story of attempting to keep the secret of cancer from her grandmother, Nainai. In this podcast, Wang discusses her troubles with keeping such a large secret from her Nainai. Did you agree with the family's choice to deceive Wang's grandmother?
I don’t agree with the family’s choice to keep such a secret from Wang’s grandmother. If her grandmother had already suffered through cancer, I feel she would’ve known how to handle cancer a second time. Yes, it may have made life hard but, she deserves to choose which path to follow for her remaining days. Even though I don’t agree with their decision, I understand it. Nainai made the same decision with her husband to let him worry about other things that weren’t related to his cancer. I know when it comes my time to die, I want to know I’m dying. With that, I can decide whether or not I want to be euthanized, if I want dialysis, chemotherapy—whatever the case may be. I want it to be my decision how I go. When have you made an important choice to tell someone a difficult truth or you made an important choice to tell a lie that had a major impact on you and/or someone else? In 2015, I came out as lesbian, and although my classmates knew, I hadn’t told my parents. About a week into dating my girlfriend I told my parents the news. In all honesty, at first, my dad wasn’t very accepting. My mom on the other hand, supported me every step of the way. After realizing my sexuality wasn’t a phase, my father warmed up to the idea. My sexuality is something I still don’t understand and probably won’t until I’m dead--telling my father about my sexuality may have been scary at first but, my life is better because of it
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Don Hart
9/25/2017 05:50:29 pm
Julia, your blog post seemed very organized and feel like how our opinions on this topic were very similar we both would like to know if we were the ones sick, but accept that it's a different culture and understand why they don't tell Nainai that she has stage four lung cancer.
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Sabatino
9/26/2017 08:33:47 am
Don makes some valid observations. I'd like to add I appreciate how you shared such personal information about yourself -- and I see lots of potential in this blog narration for you to develop the story more into your formal life-choice (choosing to tell your parents, that is) narrative. Thoughts?
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