• Table discussion Thought Questions, LCD
"forbidden to meet my friends after school" p229
"shame all the Chinese people on earth"
"Can a poor man afford a lucky house?" p231
"Never forget, we together Chinese" p232
"Enemy cunning" p235
"I was to spend eternity shelling..." pp235-6
"Mrs. Lim's lips had not moved"
"Keep up"
"bad end of Hastings Street" p241
Japan Town
"enemy territory" p242
"The news is much worse today, May" p244
"putting us away"
"the enemy... one of them was standing too close to Meiying" p245
"reluctantly thrilled by their baseball skills" p247
"Never betray your own kind"
"Keep your business in your pants" p247
"She was a traitor"
"Promise me..." p248
"I wondered why we, the Chinese, had not joined the Halloween mob that attacked Japtown" p248
"The Japanese tied up people... Chinese soldiers gave away gum" p249
"I hadn't stopped her" p249
"If she was a traitor, what was I?" p250
"Burn out his lungs" p251
"You Japs?" p254
"I AM CHINESE" p254
"Nothing... was out of the ordinary, except..." p255
"Stepmother silently embraced her" p256
"The harsh voice seemed physically to hammer away at the thin figure" p257
foreshadowing – a clue or a suggestion about what will happen later in a story, unlucky house, bad spirits, death
bad luck – 13, 4, black cat cross your path, broken mirror- 7 years bad luck, spill salt, broken plate, change a calendar before the month is over, walking under a ladder, giving a clock as a gift, daisy, giving a knife as a gift, share a pear, Chinese New Year – don’t cut your hair, sweep the floor, wash your hair, wash your hair before an exam, crows, full moon, light three cigarettes from one match, open an umbrella indoors, passing open scissors, cutting your nails at night
- confirmation bias – when you are looking for something, you will find it
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