Short story: Tragedy of My Third Eye by Suchen Christine Lim

1. Compare the story: "Tragedy of My Third Eye" by Suchen Christine Lim with the news about child abuse in the newspaper.

I have read the story: Tragedy of My Third Eye, written by Suchen Christine Lim. The story is interesting. I do really like and enjoy myself reading the story. It is about a girl named Ping. She is a kind of girl that can be said as a pity or sympathy young girl because of she always was being bullied and discriminates by the people around her like her schoolmates, teacher and also by the women that she called as her mother. From the story, we can found the reason why she was bullied by her classmate who is because of she couldn’t speak English and refused to be Linda’s slave. Because of that also, she was being ignored and excluded by her other classmates and also was being heated and disdainful by Linda’s father because of her mother’s occupation, which is something like a prostitute. I can’t say that, Ping was abused by her mother, but there is a scene in the story where while her mother bathes her where she threw cold water over her and also at part where she was being forced to eat. I think that part it can’t be said as child abuse because child abuse is something that hurt you. For my opinion, that part is just like a normal actions from mother towards her daughter. But, I’m also do not like her mother because she didn’t play her role as a mother like preparing her breakfast, sent and took her to school because of she still young and it is quite dangerous for a young girl like her walking alone by herself to school. Although for me she did not abuse Ping, but she still not a good and nice women to be followed or take as example for the young generations, especially towards Ping.

I have picked news that about a child abuse from the internet, which is an article from New York Region. The news is about Nixzmary, the 7-year-old girl whose killing in 2006 horrified New Yorkers and upset the city’s child welfare system, was mainly assaulted by her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, 29. She lived with Ms. Santiago’s five other children and the couple in a three-bedroom apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant. She was the family scapegoat and was frequently eaten and tied to a chair in a room equipped with a litter box for a toilet. One evening in early January 2006, she was accused of taking a container of pudding from the refrigerator without asking and of jamming Mr. Rodriguez’s computer printer. He confronted her, beat her viciously, held her head under cold running water and left her in a bedroom. A few hours later she was dead. The last words of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, moaning in pain, gasping for air, were “Mommy, Mommy, and Mommy”. When Ms. Santiago finally went to use a neighbor’s phone to call 911, Nixzmary had been dead for hours. Ms. Santiago is not, however, charged only with causing Nixzmary’s death. She could also be convicted of second-degree murder if the jury finds that Ms. Santiago, showing “depraved indifference” to Nixzmary’s life, helped Mr. Rodriguez create a “grave risk of serious physical injury” to her by failing to get her prompt medical attention. (Mr. Rodriguez, who was acquitted of second-degree murder, was charged more narrowly.)

So, from the both story, what we can found is that I think the child abuse news, the second story is sadder and more inhumanity compared to the first story, “Tragedy of My Third Eye”, by Suchen Christine Lim. When I read the news, it really makes me sad and crying because of all the cruelty done towards the girl until her death. As a human being and the most important thing is that as a parent we should be protects our child and loves them, not torture and be cruel with them. My opinion towards this case is that the girl is really very pity and both of her parents should be punished as heavily as it supposed to be for what they had done to her. It is to avoid the same thing from happened again. We also as the people should be more concern and be alert with our surroundings, so that there is no other Childs or kids that are going to be the next victim for abusing case.