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Amy Tan writes about shame. We have all felt shame.

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Amy Tan writes about how she had had love at 14 with a boy. To get the reader hooked on the story.

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Amy tan writes about shame. having a relatable topic help the reader understand what they are reading better.

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Amy tan added a great amount of detail to the story. The detail helps deeper understand the story. -Farah J

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Amy Tan writes in detail about the food and what occurred during the dinner. I could envision the whole thing in my mind.> Hamza

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Amy Tan writes about a lesson that is true in real life.

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Amy Tan writes about how the food has such bulging features and describes all of the features the food has. Logan N

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talks about how you can change on the outside but to always stay the same on the inside. -Brody Mobilia

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Amy Tan puts a lot of strong vocabulary in her writing, and detail which makes the story more interesting.

-Ameera

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Amy Tan wrote about how she first thought about her mother's cooking in very visual writing with strong details that help the reader imagine what is happening in the story.

-Daniel Liu

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Adding strong details to keep reader hooked

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Adding strong details to keep reader hooked

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Amy Tan writes how a boy was at her house for Christmas Eve dinner and she used strong details to describe that night.

-Trevor N

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Amy Tan used a lot of detail to paint a picture in your head so you can understand the story more.

-Mason M

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Amy tan writes about shame. having a relatable topic will help the reader connect and understand the story better

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Amy tan writes about the food with strong words and detail for example "The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food." -Alex Kirchhoff

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Amy tan makes very descriptive remarks about the food her mother is producing, so that she can plant a picture in the readers head. max kord

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The first paragraph shows the background information the second paragraph transitioned into action- Vincent Li

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Amy tan writes about shame in the story with the girl and the man, looks and the food and visual about each other "the Chinese dinner"

-Ry'el M

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Amy Tan used strong verb to show how American guests felt.

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Amy Tan uses words to give the readers an image of what is going on in the story.-JP

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Amy Tan writes an essay about shame, which is a feeling everyone has felt before, making her writing relatable but she also adds many strong verbs and detailed descriptions about what's taking place or what is happening while including other characters reaction's.

Nathan

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Amy feels shame because of her culture and she doesn't want to embarrassed herself in front of the guy she likes.

-Aly D

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In the book it talks about shame

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-joshua

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Details to help readers picture what the writer is thinking

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Details to help readers picture what the writer is thinking

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Amy tan writes about how she hated that Christmas dinner. Her mother had outdone her herself. "She was pulling black veins out of the backs of flesh prawns."

-Aiden Chan

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Amy Tan writes about how their kitchen was in a messy state and uses descriptive words.

-Varun K

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the story talks about shame-Ashton

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amy tan is very visaual in her story sayng things like "bulging eyes" and "black veins"

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Was the story reciprocal? You want to know how it ends. you are able to relate to the narrator.

-Ms. A

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she used lots of strong words like rubbery and fleshy.- charles

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she used lots of strong words like rubbery and fleshy.- charles

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so the reader can know or visualize how the moment happened. To know the details on how they felt about the moment.

Haden rong

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Good writers zoom into important moments to emphasize how important it was or how it affects the writing . They also go faster on lesser important parts to not drag out the story and show which parts are important and which parts are not. -vlada

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She used black, fleshy, and slimy, which is showing how she think other people see her cultures food.

-Abby

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When Amy Tan wrote how she fell in love with the ministers son when she was fourteen, I could relate to that because I have had a big crush on someone too and that made me want to read it more to know what happened.

-Aamena

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The Author uses very descriptive words, such as strange and slimy. She describes the foods, emotions people were feeling, and the occasion.

-Avery Wade

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The writer uses a lot of descriptive wording to capture the readers imagination such as saying the prawn is fleshy, and tofu is rubbery white sponges, the squid's back is crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.

Eric Yang

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The author writes complete and ending sentences so that the reader understands everything.

-Sofiia Y.

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Amy Tan uses words like fleshy, bulging, and slimy to describe the dinner in a negative light

-William

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Amy Tan shows extreme details in her writing, making the readers be able to paint the scene in their heads. Another writer could have said "We sat down, my dad embarrassed me, and Robert left." This does not give any details, and makes the text dull. As an example, Amy Tan gives explanation when she says "Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges"

Isak Danielsson

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Amy tan used a lot of information and details describing her mood by how embarrassed and disgusted by using the words black veins, fleshy, bulging, from the Chinese food.

-Celine Jones

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Good writers use lots of describing words such as slimy, raw, rubbery. 

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Good writers use lots of describing words such as slimy, raw, rubbery. 

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Having a relatable topic that the readers will get hooked into. - Austin Chien

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Having a relatable topic that the readers will get hooked into. - Austin Chien

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The author talks about shame and being embarrassed which everyone can relate to. She writes how she wants to fit in with the American's and fitting into the norms, which people can find relatable.

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Amy Tan uses a lot of descriptive words while she is describing the dinner table, she talks about appalling mounds of raw food, slimy rock cod with bulging eyes, stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges which were tofu, and a plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife marking.

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The author's story is about something that many people can relate to. It talks about shame and being embarrassed, as well as trying to fit her be more American instead of Chinese.

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Amy Tan use very good describing word when she's saying about the food her mom cooks. - Helen

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Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan used a lot of unique words like Slimy, Rubbery, Fleshy to represent her cultures food and that shes ashamed of it - Ethan C

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by using words that could let you imagine what she is describing, such as bulging and fleshy, and using comparisons, her writing can make you see what she is talking about in your head.

-Ellia

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Have a story that people can some what relate to for example "fish cheeks" has a motif of shame.

Elena Stanos

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Amy Tan used multiple strategies to engage the reader to her book. The main one that she utilized was being descriptive. She used words such as bulging, slimy, and crisscrossed knife markings.

-Ronin

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she used SHABBY chinese, STRANGE menu BLACK veins, FLESHY prawns etc :)

alexa

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Amy Tan zooms in on important moments and makes relatable moments for people to make the reader curious and give the story a deeper meaning she describes small things that usually don't matter to add a sense of pressure and fear.

Aiden H

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A good writer needs to relate to the reader

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A good writer needs to relate to the reader

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In this story, Amy Tan writes a lot about shame. People are going to be hooked on this story, because Amy talks about shame, which can be related to many people in modern day society.

- Oliver Kinghorn

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The author started the writing with a line to hook the reader. From the start of the story we want to know what happens in the end. This makes the reader keep reading and not get bored. - Nash W.

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The good writer makes it so the reader can some what relate to the character that is in the story. They also choose a lesson overall through out the story. - Ryland

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Amy Tan writes very descriptively and it makes the story a lot easier to understand, visualize, and relate to.

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Amy Tan writes about every detail and description of the food making it easy to visualize and have a better understanding of what's going on.

-Alaina C.

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Amy tan adds a lot of detail to parts of the story to help the reader see what is happening. Owen Walker

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She makes the writing with lots of details and descriptive words when she explains the food.

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Amy Tan was very helpful when she helped us visually see as she described the meal.

-Milind

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In this short story, Amy Tan writes how she fell in love with a boy. This will get the reader hooked because we have all been in love.

-Jason Cojocaru

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The author didn't just say that her mom served Tofu, but she really described what it looked like. "Stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges." Describing what the food looks like puts a visual description in your head instead of trying to guess what it looks like

- Arin

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Amy explains the food in a very descriptive way which helps the reader process and visually see the story. She added great amounts of detail into the story and I could picture it in my mind.

- Morgan A.

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Amy Tan entices the reader by addressing a common scenario, in this case, shame. the author uses literary examples including "i wanted to disappear" or "dinner threw me deeper into despair". the author uses language to connect with the reader, by sharing a universal experience where you felt shame or embarrassment.

Aaron Russell

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Lots of exaggerated movements and descriptions 

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Lots of exaggerated movements and descriptions 

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Amy Tan uses lots of descriptive language to pull readers in and make it feel like they are with the narrator, experiencing the events and feelings for themselves. - Kaden f

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Good writers make relatable story's to engage there readers, for example in the passage it states " What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese dinner?" in this statement it shows how she is nervous/scared of Robert coming over because her family is making their cultural meal, Which other people of a the same culture or a different culture could relate to.

-Imani Lawson

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Amy Tan paints and relatable picture, and a allusion on how her mothers dish is gross and every detail and a visual detail. Using descriptive writing to show how she is ashamed of what her mother serves, just to impress a boy.

-Alexis Eng

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Amy tan writes about embarrassment and shame. I think that everyone can relate to this because everyone feels shame in life about different things. with embarrassment, even small things can make people embarsed.

Molly

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the reader can visually know what is happening

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When it comes to writing or art, the piece needs to appeal to whoever the target audience is. Amy Tan writes about a 14 year old girl feeling shame, which is not an unknown feeling any 14 year old. Elena Abbasi

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Amy Tan writes about embarrassment and shame. Everybody can relate because nobody is perfect and everyone has things that make them different and most people have felt shame about it but you will never not feel shame till you learn to accept your difference.

-Alli K

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A good writer such as Amy Tan uses detail to help the reader visualize what is happening in the story. In the story it states, "Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges." this is how Amy Tan shows detail in her writing.

Noah Shin

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Amy Tan is describing all in details and trying to use words that more similar but she uses words that make more emotions

Margo Lomaeva

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Amy tan talks about her on culture and how she thinks its not normal. Which made her show how shes embarrassed.

-connor.m

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This story is interesting and hooking due to its descriptive language used. She uses connotation to describe the food in detail and. She uses emotion and description to interest the reader. An example of this is when she said, "a slimy rock cod with bulging eyes". - Younis

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Amy Tan evokes emotions because it is easy for us to feel how the characters feel. She uses words like grimaced, astonished and reddened to put us in the shoes of the characters

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When I read how Amy Tan reacted to her crush about her culture and read the strong words she wrote such as black veins, shabby and bulging it made me wonder and question which eventually made me want to read more of this story and made me think that I can relate to this because it is probably what I would do too.

-Arn