Eng11 JP Ch3 Notes

“The white taffeta dress… faded raspberry stain near the collar.” p43
everything is second-hand, third-hand, tattered, worn
no money for luxuries and “stupid foolish”

“Beauty and the Beast” p44

signs of something wrong
“Where is Wong Suk?” “Paper day for Wong Suk” p47
“Walk young for young job; walk old for old job.” p48
“more life years… added to your paper years, the more Honourable one became” p48
“I had witnessed Poh-Poh giving different numbers to different people.” p48
“paper-years… always different from Chinese years” p49
“I stupidly thought, There’s nothing left to tell.” p49

“Tell her.” Wong Suk repeatedly p50
“negotiate with the… the Tong”

“Big Careless Mouth… Too many English words” p51
“whispering… all jostling for survival… each as desperate as Chinese voices” –universal immigrant experience ***

FLASHBACK
“Johnson bess-see Boss Man” p53 “bess-see” best, heavy accent
saved his life in rail camp
Wong Suk only wanted gold
“note… wrapped around a heavy American gold coin” p56
“Head Tax” p57
“Bess-ee”(Wang Bak’s accent)

Wang Bak sensitive man -“I gave her plum blossoms… Throw back at me all the blossoms” p58

“Lucky Money” why? p60
“that was a sign, too, and I did not pay enough attention” p60
What is happening with Wong Suk? rising suspense
“Wong Suk told of being friends with some Siwash natives” p60

mah-jong “Gossip was a way everyone warned everyone else about what was known” p61
“Who did not have a tale to tell?” p63
“hint of mystery… Paper, paper, paper… Tell her… Father could not” pp63-4
“monkey man and defiant girl, once showed their whip scars to each other” p65
“when I cried, I cried on my own” p65
“the bones shipment” p66
“I waited for our Chinglish conversation” p66
“I wished everyone would go away and stay away” p68
“I felt the deep warmth of his cloak and moved away” p69
“Farewell, my bandit princess” p71
“I forgot to..urge him Turn around.  Come back.  Come back” pp71-2
“No, not yet, not until Liang wants to leave” p72
“I did not, then, in the days of our royal friendship… never to forget you.” p72
“I never to forget you” repeated phrase (43,72, other pages-look out for them)