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Themes (match quote with theme)
Motifs (match quote with motif)
Symbols (match quote with symbol)
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Who narrates this chapter?
Waverly Jong
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Who narrates this chapter?
Lena St. Clair
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“Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn’t think we were poor” (Tan 89).
Expectation vs. reality
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“Wise guy, he not go against wind. In chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind-poom!-North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen” (Tan 89)
Wind
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“‘She not want it. We not want it’” (Tan 94).
Lindo Jong’s Desire to Get Rid of the Chess Set
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Who is the mother of Waverly Jong?
Lindo Jong
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Who is the mother of Lena St. Clair?
Ying-ying St. Clair
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“‘I wish you wouldn’t do that, telling everybody I’m your daughter’" (Tan 99).
Communication Between American Daughters and Chinese Mothers
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“The chessboard seemed to hold elaborate secrets waiting to be untangled. The chessmen were more powerful than old Li’s magic herbs that cured ancestral curses.” (Tan 94)
Secrets
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“The chessboard seemed to hold elaborate secrets waiting to be untangled” (Tan 94).
A chess set
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What does Vincent receive at the Christmas party?
A chess set
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What ethnicity is Lena's father?
Irish
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“...I was seven according to the American formula and 8 by the Chinese calendar” (Tan 92).
Chinese culture vs. American culture
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“Is new American rules,’ said my mother. ‘Meimei play, squeeze all her brains out for win chess. You play, worth squeeze towel.” (Tan 99)
Rules
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“But the next night, the girl came back to life with more screams, more beating, her life once more in peril” (Tan 114).
The voice in the wall
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What is Waverly's Chinese name?
Meimei
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What happens to Lena's little brother when he is born?
He dies
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“‘Annh! Why do you Americans have only these morbid thoughts in your mind’” (Tan 103).
Chinese culture vs. American culture
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“Even as a young child, I could sense the unspoken terrors that surrounded our house, the ones that chased my mother until she hid in a secret dark corner of her mind… I watched, over the years, as they devoured her… until she disappeared and became a ghost.” (Tan 105)
Terrors
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“My father proudly named her in her immigration papers: Betty St. Clair, crossing out her given name of Gu Ying-ying. And then he put down the wrong birthyear, 1916 instead of 1914” (Tan 107).
New names
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What is a skill that Lindo wants Waverly to master?
The art of invisible strength
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What is the name of Lena's neighbor?
Teresa
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“Sometimes she would start to make dinner, but would stop halfway...” (Tan 112).
Coping with tragedy and loss
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“What did she do to herself?’ I whispered to my mother… ‘She had a baby she didn’t want’... I knew this was not true. I knew my mother made up anything to warn me, to help me avoid some unknown danger.” (Tan 108)
Danger
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Who can list another symbol from this chapter that we didn't discuss in the PowerPoint?
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