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“In China, everybody dreamed about Kweilin. And when I arrived, I realized how shabby my dreams were, how poor my thoughts.” pg 8. (The Joy Luck Club Ch 1)
In this story what’s happening is the mom finding out how Kweilin is a beautiful place that she came because of her husband thinking it would be safe to live here. But the husband guessed wrong because of the sirens which means warning that the bombers are coming.
This quote is saying how everyone thinks that Kweilin is going to be a beautiful place and to go there with your family and friends. Then, they realized that their dreams were crushed and how nothing is worth coming here. How nobody should come here with their family and friends. Nobody should see this, it is not worth looking
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