AcknowledgementsThanks for giving me this chance to achieve this paper and to make the conclusion for my four years’ education. Through writing this paper, I have gained more knowledge than I supposed.My sincere thanks are due to my supervisor, Mr. Wang for helping me to clarify my thought and sharpen my thinking.Here, I also want to give my thanks to other teachers and my classmates who gave me much help. Thank you!AbstractEverything I Never Told You is Chinese American woman writer Celeste Ng took her six years to debut, with high reputation; she pulled ethnic and cultural conflicts of the United States under the eaves of a family. Once published, the book had received wide public attention. The book tells a tragic story of a child who born in a cross ethnic family named Lydia; she finally towards death due to the unbearable love and expectation of the parents. The novel is divided into two lines; one is the family guess, and the other is Lydia’s recount by herself. Celeste Ng portrays a family which attempt to conduct in the torrent of history, and a young girl who tries her best to integrate into society. This paper is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the author and the works in detail; the second part expounds on the internal factors of Lydia’s tragedy, which were caused by her characters and self-consciousness from the respective of Lydia; the third part is an analysis of the inevitability of Lydia’s tragedy from the external factors of family education, family members and social contradictions. The fourth part is the summary of this thesis. Through the analysis we know that the real cause of this tragedy is the failure of family education and the inf...
