This she did with my father, confessing finally: “I am too stubborn. When all these failed to abate her fever, she began to arrange the details of her will. At night, between wracking coughs and deadly silences, Grandmama had her back and chest rubbed with heated camphor oil and sipped a bluish decoction of an herb called Peacock’s Tail. and instead gave constant instruction to my stepmother and sister on the boiling of ginseng roots mixed with bitter extract. For days she had resisted going into the hospital. So it seemed, for different reasons, we all held our breath waiting for something. What would all the white people in Vancouver think of us? We were Canadians now, Chinese- Canadians, a hyphenated reality that my parents could never accept.
My two older teenage brothers and my sister, Liang, age 14, were embarrassed by my parents’ behavior.
My father, thinking that a sign should appear in Grandmama’s garden, looked at the frost-killed shoots and cringed: no, that could not be it. My stepmother looked endlessly into the small cluttered room the ancient lady had occupied. My parents knew that without any clear sign, our own family fortunes could be altered, threatened. She had promised us a sign her leaving, final proof that her present life had ended well. When Grandmama died at 83 our whole household held its breath. Little Gems of Literature: Holiday reading for Grade 8,9,10 & 11 with bunpeiris in April, August & December at Kandana 0777 1000 60 The Jade Peony What is the difference between story and plot? What is the difference between plot summary and plot interpretation? How do you analyze the relationship between the main plot and a subplot? What are the purposes of literary elements and literary techniques? What are the writer’s literary devices and reader’s literary devices? How do you recognize and appreciate ways in which writer use language, structure and style to achieve his intended effects on the reader? How do you shift from mere appreciation of a literary text to critical literary appreciation? How do you engage in literary analysis & what is the purpose? What is the difference between topic and theme and how do you arrive at the theme? How do you compare the theme and the moral message? How do you develop an interpretation of a work of literature (drama, poetry and prose) and what is the purpose? How do you present critical appreciations or your individual responses to literary texts composed in different forms and in different periods and cultures? How do you know your individual response is valid? What are the differences between Critical Literary Appreciation, Literary Criticism, and Literary Theory? Why should there be a Literary theory at all?
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