摘 要

《无声告白》是美籍华裔作家伍绮诗的首部长篇小说。该小说一经出版就获得了强烈反响，深受读者喜爱。《无声告白》讲述了一个跨种族家庭的故事。该故事从这个家庭的二女儿——莉迪亚的失踪开始， 随着故事的深入，关于她和这个家庭的过往也一点点地被揭开，莉迪亚悲剧的原因也逐渐清晰。《无声告白》涉及了种族、身份危机、个人成就、性别、家庭和个人道路等社会话题。本文旨在从家庭教育的角度分析《无声告白》中莉迪亚的悲剧。本文将从母爱、科学培养、全面发展、健康的个性、一致的教育期望和父母的爱这六个方面分析莉迪亚家庭教育的缺失和不足。目前，家庭教育引起了越来越多人的关注，希望本文能给关注家庭教育的人一些参考。

关键词：《无声告白》；家庭教育；莉迪亚的悲剧

Abstract

Everything I Never Told You is the debut long novel written by Celeste Ng, a Chinese American writer. Great repercussion was been received and earned readers’ favor since it was published. Everything I Never Told You is a story related to an interracial family. The story begins with the disappearance of Lydia, the second daughter of the family. As the story goes on, something about Lydia and her family is revealed inch by inch and Lydia’s tragedy gradually becomes clear. Everything I Never Told You covers race, identity crisis, personal achievement, gender, family, personal path and etc.. This paper analyzes the lack and deficiency of Lydia’s family education from six aspects: maternal love, scientific fostering, comprehensive development, healthy personality, consistent educational expectations and balanced parents love. Nowadays, family education has attracted more and more people’s attention, the paper aims to give some reference to those who focus on family education.

Key Words: Everything I never told you; family education; Lydia’s tragedy

Contents

1. Introduction 1
2. Literature Review 3
3. Family Education 6
   1. The Importance of Family Education 6
   2. The Connotations of Family Education 6
   3. The Characteristics of Family Education 7
      1. The Enlightenment of Family Education 7
      2. The Randomization of Family Education 7
      3. The Ethics of Family Education 8
      4. The Comprehensiveness of Family Education 8
4. Lydia’s Tragedy from the Perspective of Family Education 10
   1. Lack of Maternal Love 10
   2. Lack of Scientific Cultivation 11
   3. Lack of Comprehensive Development 13
   4. Lack of Healthy Personality 13
   5. Lack of Consistent Expectations 14
   6. Lack of Balanced Parents Love 15
5. Conclusion 18

References 19

Acknowledgements 20

Analyses of Lydia’s Tragedy in

Everything I Never Told You from the Perspective of Family Education

Introduction

Celeste Ng is a Chinese American writer who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is from a migrant family. Her parents are scientists, they moved to America in late 1960s from Hong Kong. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. People will judge your country from your behaviors, so her parents told her that she should be kind to others and do better in schools when she was young. There are a great number of books at her home. Her parents work ruddy hard and try their best to provide her a better education. Her parents moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio for seeking a more friendly community and a better educational environment. She studied there till she graduated from high school.

Then in 1988, she entered Harvard university majoring English literature and then she began further study at the University of Michigan and earned her MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in writing (Yan, 2018). Later, she went in for lots of weird jobs, like proofreading textbooks and customizing power point presentations for companies and individuals (Yan, 2018). It was the experience in Michigan that helped her to be true writer. There, she did extensive reading and wrote a lot, which helped her to develop her own writing style. Her fictions and essays have appeared in the New York Times, One Story, The Guardian, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere, and she is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.