The main character of the story was a girl named Meimei. She was the youngest of three. She lived with her mom, dad and two brothers in San Francisco Chinatown. She is a dynamic and round character because throughout the story her feelings towards her mother and the game of chess change. She started out as a quiet girl who never talked back to her mom but at the end she starts to back talk to her mother, tells her mother what she is thinking and eventually runs away for an afternoon just to get some peace and quiet Chess started out as a game she didn't understand yet ended up being something she was really good at and enjoyed playing.
The first minor character is Meimeis mother. Her mother isn't that great at speaking english but she gave a lot of advice to her daughter throughout her life.The mother is a dynamic character because she starts out not wanting her daughter to play chess but ended up pressuring her daughter into winning every time and had her daughter
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Meimei’s mother playes Meimei’s life like a chess board. She parades her around showing her off conducting her every move, just like the pieces on a chessboard.
“Her black men advanced across the plane, slowly marching too each successive level in a single unit. My white pieces screamed as the scurried and fell off the board one by one” Is one example of imagery. It displays a personification and sight. The second piece of imagery is; “My breath came out like angry smoke”, which uses the sensory language too display sight. One more piece of sensory language is “I stood up on creeking legs” which could be sound and touch.
The author's use of language in the story is simple and informative. It is simple because she does not use a ton of figurative language, she does not make the sentences or the story confusing. It is informative because she uses direct word to relay information about the details in the