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“JP” Part Three, Ch8
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Table discussion Thought Questions, LCD
READ WHOLE CHAPTER ALOUD, VERY MOVING
OR FROM BREAK ON P153
Sek-Lung, third brother
“Sek-Lung” pun – word joke, double meaning “sick lung”
1939, six years old
“considered me brainless” p145
lung infection, no school
always sick, very sickly
- has trouble learning Chinese terms for relatives, uses
wrong titles, honorifics
“Suling, come to Gold Mountain, give my boy Sek-Lung- a
brain, a brain!” p145
missionaries – travel the world spreading Christianity
“The Christian God picked her.” p146
“Sekky…more Canadian” p146
Japanese in China in the 1930s and 1940s
“landlords and Christians are being arrested… Some are
beheaded” pp146-7
“then the Japanese” p147
“Family rankings and Chinese kinship terms gave me a
headache” p147
“Every Chinese person… attached to him or her.” p147
boy/girl, older, superior p148
“the others” p148 other wives?
English idiom “Little jugs have big ears”
“Keep it simple”
“The Chinese rankings were overwhelming… My head pounded.”
READ WHOLE PARAGRAPH pp148-9
“For every one term in English… there were ten Chinese terms”
“Am I Chinese or Canadian?” p149 READ SECTION
“’We are also Canadian’, Father said” p150
WHOLE PAGE TO “Different roots, different flowers.” pp150-1
“Each dialect opened up another reality to them” p151
“We were no mo children” p152
“born neither this nor that” stuck between two cultures
READ TO “The words RESIDENT ALIEN… a loitering stranger”
pp152-153
“plan Suling’s downfall”
“Chen Suling would have delicate papers” p155
“I would call Chen Suling by the wrong name- on purpose.”
“education was respected” p157
“I slammed by book shut” p158
Chen Suling killed
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