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Summary Of The Jade Peony

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Award-writing novelist, memoirist, and short story writer, Wayson Choy, is a very emotional detailed writer. He puts all his ideas, such as, family love, culture, death, and how it all can strike your family. Since he uses the first person view of point, his narratives expressed what he feels and experienced in his life. In his story, “The Jade Peony,” Wayson Choy demonstrates the devesting events that occurred in the lives of Sek-Lung and his family. In “The Jade Peony,” it displays a great love in Sek Lungs family but it slightly gets ruined by the grandmothers actions. Such as, going in the neighbor's trash, back alleys, all to find treasures to create her windchimes. People would laugh at the family and thought they …show more content…

“They all loved Grandmama, but she was inconvenient, unsettling.” Screening, even though the family argues about her behavior, they still love her. Furthermore, besides Grandmama's behavior, her personality was recreation. She would actually get along people and also the author. In paragraph seven, the Sek-Lung indicates that Grandmama has always been there for him. Since Sek-Lungs parents went to work and his siblings gone to school, he spent a greater part of his life with Grandmama. She would play games and tell stories to each other. “But above all, without realizing it then, her hands conveyed to me the quality of their love.” Explaining that the memories he had with her or any other person, will never be forgotten. The author and his family moved to Vancouver from China, their Canadians now. Their in a new lifestyle and they want to be part of it. “What would all the white people in Vancouver think of us?” Showing that the author and his siblings were worried. They dont want to be stranded out. Kids always want to blend in the crowd. “We were Canadians, Chinese Canadians, a hyphenated reality that my parents could never accept.” Screening that its

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