“One bad apple spoils the bunch.” If one person is a certain way, then everyone who grew up in the same place must be the same way, that is what most people believe. However, a real-life girl and a fictional character can show that the truth is very different. Khai-Linh Pho, a freshman at the California Academy of Mathematics and Science, believes that finding a place to belongs mostly depends on luck. On the other had, Meimei from the short story “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan, which tells of Meimei’s talent for chess and how it changed her life, believes that through hard work can a place to belong be achieved. These ideas greatly contrast, but also share a bit of the other’s concept. The different ideas of luck and hard work comes from