... the key characters of the book. It becomes obvious that Suyuan and her daughter are different in their nature and temperament. Suyuan is a very ambitious lady with an iron-will and strong determination. She wants the best for her daughter and is determined to make her succeed. Jing-Mei, however, lacks her mother's determination and falls short ... with your true self; but it is only when the scarred skin is peeled away that the healing can begin. Much of the book deals with past suffering, hich causes a need for healing Lindo Jong - The Red Candle Lindo Jong's story is about familial obl...

• Word Count: 6459
• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School

The dawn turned night into day, cold air breeze splattered right through my window. I can hear the birds chattering and my clock ticking. It's 5 o'clock when I woke up in the morning, September 27, 2057. "Today is another special day," I muttered, so I get off of my bed and put on my glasses. I was supposed to hear noise from every corner of my house, but there's no noise at all, it's a total silence instead. I am expecting something for today but I am all alone, nobody's home except for the housemaids. With a bit of disappointment drawn in my face, I took a blanket, get into my comfy chair an...

• Word Count: 1291
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... . She began to read a medley of books now from Darwin to Sarah Orne Jewett, she felt it a necessity to help mourn the loss of her husband. Her first attempts at writing were brief sketches for a local newspaper which were short descriptions of her life in Louisiana. This soon faded because it was not her passion. She longed to write of more risky ... Leonce who comes and goes because of business. This sounds almost exactly like Chopin's life style. While on vacation, Edna falls in love with Robert Lebrun. She often goes to the beach with him and she spends time with him alone. She begins...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... taking him to Canada, he drops in lira into the sea. The meaning of lira, symbolizing comfort and constancy in his life, is gone after the passing of his mother. Similarly we see how age difference contributes to the separation of family in book There are No Elders. In the short story entitled "They"re not Coming Back" the mother, named Claudette, is a single parent of two daughters. One ... men and we have different paths, and we go here and we go there, have women, wives, girlfriends, but we never leave the place we"re born. We never grow up, really .we start out on the beach, two bar...

• Word Count: 2760
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... but I didn't feel like it. However, after about a half an hour without meeting anyone, three young women approached me. The one on the left's blond hair was heavily hair sprayed and I could smell her perfume from 10 feet away. The one in the middle had very short, brown, spiked hair and was sucking and chewing gum with her entire mouth. She said in a terrible Long Island ... . Sweezy was one of my grandfather's closest friends and next-door neighbor. He said, "I want to tell you a quick story that I have been telling the whole family. It was the first day John and Jeanne moved on to Bens...

• Word Count: 1372
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School