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Folks, this will be a long while. We are going to be taken back to the early 1910s/20s. The majority of this chapter is about Brave Orchid's life before she immigrated to the US in 1940.

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"In China there was time to complete feelings." (60)

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"In China there was time to complete feelings." (60)

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We are given a very short mention of Brave Orchid's decision to become a doctor. Kingston mentions on the next page about a potential shipwreck her mother could have faced. This is our first look into Brave Orchid's overly proud personality.

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"At the dormitory the school official assigned her to a room..." (61)

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"At the dormitory the school official assigned her to a room..." (61)

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We are now entering doctor training arc.

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In the midst of doctor training arc, comes ghost arc. IN this ghost arc, comes the monologue of Brave Orchid as well as her intense PRIDE - (you either love her or hate her).

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We are finally told Kingston's mother's name.

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"Whup. Whup." My mother told the sound of new fire so that I remember it. "Whup Whup". (74)

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"Whup. Whup." My mother told the sound of new fire so that I remember it. "Whup Whup". (74)

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I literally wrote in my annotations, "Ok Kingston. Ok."

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We have completed the doctor training arc as well as the mini ghost arc. We are not entering into market place arc.

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In this arc, we come to find out about the "practice" of selling daughters as slaves in the common market place. We find out that Brave Orchid had purchased a girl herself. Though we're not told explicitly what had happened in the years Brave Orchid had her, Brave Orchid tells Kingston that she "found her a husband" (83)....

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There is no great way to explain this arc.

Kingston is now retelling us some of her mother's experiences as an actual doctor going village to village. She mentions a "half man and half ape" (84), a very unnecessary and prejudicial description of her grandfather's third wife (85), and to end it, the female infanticide and how midwifes murdered these babies (86).

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We make it to present day laundromat (87).

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We are taken into this VERY UNNCECESSARY (buuut maybe necessary) aside of...you guessed it: eating. From pages 88-92: eating. Big eaters = big winner.

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Page 93, we're now in Kingston's immature literal child brain (like literally her thoughts as a child) and her very just very seemingly unnecessary, description of refugees, and how the Japanese people came to be

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As we mentioned our first lecture of this unit, the Japanese were invading all of East Asia. Pages 93-96 is about the "crazy lady" who terrified refugees stoned to death because they thought she was signaling the Japanese bomber jets.

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"My mother left China in the winter of 1939..." (96)

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"My mother left China in the winter of 1939..." (96)

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We are slowly moving back into present time. However, we enter ghost arc pt. 2

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"How large the world must be to make my grandmother only a taste by the time she reaches me." (99)

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"How large the world must be to make my grandmother only a taste by the time she reaches me." (99)

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I swear, Kingston really knows how to annoy me as a reader. I lose all faith, all direction, and then BAM, she slaps in this line and it's *chef's kiss* incredible.

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"When I last visited my parents..." (99) to the end of the chapter: A Conversation Between Mother and Daughter

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"When I last visited my parents..." (99) to the end of the chapter: A Conversation Between Mother and Daughter

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*We are now in the present day*
LSD pills, urban renewal, aging, delusion, absence, dragons, nostalgia. - We did it folks, we made it to the end.