The story tell us about the presence and roles of mothers and fathers/grandmothers and grandfathers in the lives of children and adults by everything that men and women are meant to do has be passed down to their children. For example men have to go away to America once they marry while women stay in China taking care of their kids and home. In the story women can’t date other men because mostly everyone in the village will know. This shows that women in China are not free like men. They have to stay home and them staying home people in the village will know their business and punish them if they do wrong. Men get to go away because that’s what they are supposed to do and no one will see if they do wrong.

The title is important in telling us about the power and status of women in Chinese and Chinese-American society by its showing that Chinese and Chinese-American women don’t stand out in society, they’re there to do what they are meant to do but nothing else. The fact that the grandmother has no name tells us that she is nothing, she didn’t do anything good in Chinese society to have a name. She has no power because everyone in the village took that away from her. They made her loose all of her power by making her feel bad about herself. They blame her for not following the Chinese tradition to not sleep with other men, only with her husband that she doesn’t love.

The fact that she covered for the guy who got her pregnant shows that men have all of the power. She got all of the punishment for him. In her granddaughters life it would of been the same. I think that’s why she killed her, she knew what she will go through. In the book it says, “It was probably a girl; there is some hope of forgiveness for boys”(pg 18). This shows that she assumed it was a girl becuase if it was a boy then the baby would’ve never died. She didn’t want her daughter to suffer since men/boys in Chinese society have more power.

In this TV show, there’s a lot of psychological issues that it explores. For example in one episode the issue that we can see is defense mechanisms because in that episode there’s a women that kills to avoid the unpleasent emotions that she has when she doesn’t kill. Also the FBI tries to find out why is she killing a lot of people. They soon find out it’s because she experienced a traumatic event. They find that her brain doesn’t protect itself by deeply burying these memories in the unconscious mind because when she had the car accident, she had frontal lobe damage which causes her to kill.

What we can learn about the workings of mind and behavior from this TV show is that the FBI agents get into the minds of the killers, so they can know more about why that person is kiling. By doing so they catch the killer easier. In that same episode, the women mind and behavior works by she pulls her own hair out after she kills or is thinking about killing because it heps her relieve stress. This is like the pleasure principle because if she doesn’t pull her hair after she kills or thinking about killing then her stress won’t go away.

In another episode, one of the FBI agents exhibit eveidence of the unconscious. Nobody knows that he had something traumatic happen to him. He didn’t show it because that memorie is buried in his unconscious mind. He then later tells everyone becuase they had a case that was similar to what had happened to him. Also shows repression because he unknownigly bury his emotions into his unconscious to avoid them.

This book is similar to a book i have read because that book was My Bloody Life and that book talks about gangs and how the main character had to deal with that like in this book, Julia choosing to be there with gangs or to avoid them but they both can’t because where they live where there’s gangs and people around them join or are gang members. After the first chapter i felt like this book was going to be interesting since it started with many things happening at once. I would give Julia, the main character in the book advice about her joining the gang because now that i know that it wasn’t worth joining the gang because she joined just because of a guy she love and i would tell her to not join because being in a gang is more than what she thinks and just joining for a guy that she barely knows is not worth it and he might even get killed and she would just be in the gang like nothing because the person she joined for is not there no more and that’s the advice i would tell her. If i was a character in this book it will affect the plot because i would probably be Julia’s friend because she’s smart and does her work in school and has goals to go to college and I’m like that so i would be her friend and the whole story would change because i would not let her do things she did for example join the gang, be friends with Eric, also not mess around school. I have changed after reading this book by thinking that people join gangs because of problems they have and not just because they want to mess up their life.