China Men - The Brother in Vietnam Essay -- Maxine Hong Kingston China

China Men - The fellow in Vietnam  In her tale, The Brother in Vietnam, author Maxine Hong Kingston relates the drastic misapprehension of Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet on the adjourn of  the brothers students.  It is clear to the reader that their disillusioned thoughts and ideas of the world were in saveed in their vulnerable minds by their own parents at young ages, an occurrence that still take a shits place in our society today.     In his account of the situation, the brother first clearly makes a none that these confused and suspicious students comprise not one of his elementary classes, but rather his only non-remedial class.  From this he is patently implying that one would expect a heightened ability to understand and more accurately analyze the power and beauty of great literature on the part of the students.  Thus from the beginning, the reader is alerted to the fact that their confusion is not due to the bother of the material, bu t rather is the product of some underlying factor.  In this agency the students perceive this Shakespearean tragedy as a horror story, the classical thought of it shadowed in their minds by fear.  They see the Montagues and Capulets as families driven mad Verona as a plague-infested country where killing and marriage take place in dark regions alike.  They infer from it that young love is dangerous, and by reading of a suicide made possible by a potion that was initially intended to preserve tender love instead of theft it, their notions that there is evil in everything seem to be confirmed.     The brother, frustrated and upset, is unavailing to shift the emphasis that the play has left on these youths, and he feels... ...protective fortress well-nigh their children.  Do they really believe this is to the benefit of our youth?  It is intelligible to want to protect children from unnecessary evils, but sometimes in constructing walls around the ir worldly vision they are in all actuality cutting their children absent from reality.  It is so much healthier and helpful to confront these issues head-on, rather than exhausting to skirt around them.  In fact, in the long-run, as can be seen through the misinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet by the students, such avoidance of the matter at hand will often prove more harmful in the development of young minds.     Through the various misconceptions of the children in her short story, The Brother in Vietnam, Maxine Hong Kingston allows her reader to see just how necessary loyalty is to the vulnerable minds of our youth.