Peoples legacy are distinguished by what people do in their life times. Society in modern time is built on a firm foundation of Legacy, which is why people want to be famous. People for years struggle to find their purpose, so they can leave a beautiful Legacy behind for future generations to admire.
The playwright, Ins Choi, did a wonderful job on displaying what the word Legacy means in Kim’s Convenience. The play reveals a unique family with a mother and father (Umma and Appa) which whom are 1st generation Korean Canadian, and a son and daughter (Jung and Janet) who are 2nd generation Korean Canadian. The main character in the play, Appa desperately wanted to leave behind a Legacy for his kids to have. But what comes soon to find out that …show more content…
To my frame of reference, the baby should come first, and THEN the store when it comes to naming. But Appa was too caught up in his future legacy, so Umma had to name the baby herself. And when you didn’t think Appas love for his legacy is enough, that chapter should be a good wake-up call that it isn’t ever enough when it comes to him. Though in the play, Appa had multiple character developments from the perspective of Legacy. In the last chapter, “Hi Appa”, after years of Appa not seeing his son, Jung, he comes back. The chapter in its whole was about Reconciliation, the healing of relationships. Appa and his son Jung started to make conversation, the retelling of how Jung was allowed to run the store for about 20 minutes since he passed his father’s “Korean History Test”. But after he explained a bit more about what happened in his life and how he works at a Car Rental place, Appa offers Jung to take over the store. For Appa, this was a huge development, since Jung at the age of fifteen ran away from home, abandoning his family entirely, leaving Appa with a bitter taste in his mouth about his own son. His personal growth through the struggles choosing between his store and his