How does ji-suk's mother best develop the theme that adapting to cultural change is difficult? "…she'd made ji-suk take korean lessons…" "…cooked kimchi and other korean delicacies with her at least once a week…" "…she’d been determined to make sure ji-suk graduated from a respectable college and became a lawyer." "her mother had spent years learning to speak relatively good english…"

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.