... through drifting gauze but held on until everything settled into place like a lens focusing, making the world sharp again, with edges." "Like a toy boat caught in a whirl pool" Page 8-"His body seemed to telescope into itself, but all the parts didn't fit." "The coaches voice scraped like sandpaper against his ears." "His voice juicy with contempt" Page 9-"His stubble like slivers of ice" " ... must have been, although he didn't act it. He simply said that obviously the students were infected with a disease. But in order to cure this disease the cause must be known, and they both knew wh...

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• Approx Pages: 48
• Grade Level: High School

... the family well in China. The woman's husband had left the country years before, so the villagers knew that the child was illegitimate. The night that the baby was born, the villagers raided and destroyed the family house, and the woman gave birth in a pigsty. The next morning the mother found her sister-in-law and the baby plugging up the well. The ... man's attention by carefully tending to her appearance. Kingston's fantasies must have direct bearing on her own life: she rejects, for example, the idea the idea that her aunt was a wild woman of loose morals. Instead, her aunt's greatest...

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