Digestion

Mona, the young Chinese girl's, family owns a pancake house. Her father owns the pancake business, which isolates her father from the American culture. Her father is able to decide upon his own rules and ways of dealing with problems. This isolation of working on his own gives her father a more difficult time assimilating to American ways. Since her family is from China the family has several different ways of handling and contacting different people. For example, how her father treats his pancake employees as slaves, how he comforts the immigrants, or how he treats his workers as “his boys.” Outside the Pancake house, American society reacts different toward him. For instance, going to a Mrs. Lardner’s bon voyage bash, Jeremy the party boy treats him like a servant due to the fact that he is a foreigner. In this case the Pancake house serves as a security factor for them. Their the family feels safe being away from the new American culture, which they are not used to.
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