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The narrator is embarrassed at a bowling alley as he fails to hit any pins, while his mother comforts him. To his surprise, his mother then demonstrates that she is actually a highly skilled bowler and former champion. The story is written by Ira Sukrungruang, an Asian-American author born outside Chicago who teaches creative writing. It illustrates subverting expectations by revealing the mother is more than just a parent and has hidden talents.
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- 1. Chop Suey BY IRA SUKRUNGRUANG PRESENTED BY NICHOLAS ROBERTS
- 2. The book At the age of 10, the narrator didn’t know much about his mother except that she was his mother and that’s what she was supposed to be. is at the El-Mar bowling alley with his mother trying to show off his skills. He bowls a few times and the ball steers into the gutter. Not one time did he hit a pin. He sits embarrassed next to his mother and she explains bowling is not an easy game. His mother gets up, changes her shoes and begins to bowl. This is where he learns his mother is a great bowling champion. He learns more about his mother outside of her being a mom and watches her handle a situation with a man telling her that she makes great food.
- 4. Ira Sukrungruang Ira Sukrungruang (born 1976) is an Asian writer born outside of Chicago who teaches an MFA program at the University of South Florida. Ira has written sevral memoirs such as “Talk Thai: The adventures of Buddhist boy” and “In Thailand It is night.” When Ira has time he eat McDonald’s plays Nintendo video games and watches Kung Fu movies.
- 5. Elements of narrative writing By the narrator believing that his mother can’t do many other things outside of her motherly duties, it surprises the reader along with the narrator to find that she is an outstanding bowler. The author made his mother seem very strict and not a fan of anything that dealt with American culture but astonished me by her spectacular bowling skills.
- 6. What I learned After reading this story I learned not to judge a book by it’s cover and to expect anything in stories. I did not expect his mother to participate and school her son in how to bowl. I observed how to attract the reader with facts of a character and show them a behavior that would be out of the person’s character in a story.
- 7. Work’s cited Sukrungruang, Ira. Chop Suey. Brivety 19. http://sukrungruang.com/site/about/