... Saturday night after he took his once a week bath. (according to Effie). Mama said he would not wash out a dirty diaper, he would bring a pan of water to the bed. holding his nose, and she would wash them out. I'd have thrown it in his face. He did not want her to have so many ... stove. It also served to keep the kitchen warm when we bathed in a big tin washtub behind it. We didn't have a bathroom or toilet or running water. We drew up our water from a well on the back porch, kept it in a wooden bucket on a shelf with a long handled dipper that every one drank from. Our clothes ... we ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... private and public, frivolity and necessity, the individual's need for expression and society's need for control. As she imagines what old world China was like, she paints a picture of a repressive, strictly ordered society in which people were essentially unable to have private lives. Everything had to be done ... mountain, at the age of fourteen, her mentors teach her to fight. They also show her images of her family in a gourd of water. In the first scene her parents are arranging, in her absence, her marriage to a childhood friend. In the next scene Kingston watches her ... in Ame...

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