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The girl is worried about what others think of her and she worries about it. "I worried more about making mistakes, and I spoke carefully, making sure I could say everything right before opening my mouth.” In a way, she is like Camilla from Bad Case of Stripes.

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Mother took a bite of her celery. Crunch. “It’s not bad!” she whispered.
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Father took a bite of his celery. Crunch. “Yes, it is good,” he said,
looking surprised.
I took a bite, and then my brother. Crunch, crunch. It was more than good; it was delicious.
The Lin's like raw celery

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The family is surprised that raw celery is so good. In know this because in the text it said, "Mother took a bite of her celery. Crunch. "It's not bad!" She whispers. Father took a bite of his celery. Crunch. "Yes it is good." He said, looking surprised. I took a bite, and then my brother. Crunch, crunch. It was more than good; it was delicious."

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"during our early days here we had a hard time with
American table manners." Might feel like a outsider.

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"suddenly I realized that there was dead silence except for our zipping. Looking up, I saw that the eyes of everyone in the room were on our family. Mr. and Mrs. Gleason, their daughter Meg, who was my friend and their neighbors the Basel's they were all staring at us we busily pulled this strings of our celery.
I infer that all of the neighbors were very confused about how they eat celery.

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Mrs. Gleason heat smiling. " Would you like to try some of the dip, Mrs. Lin? It my own recipe sour cream and onion flakes, with a dash of Tabasco sauce."                          Mrs. Gleason is happy because Mrs. Lin likes her food.

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Mrs. Gleason heat smiling. " Would you like to try some of the dip, Mrs. Lin? It my own recipe sour cream and onion flakes, with a dash of Tabasco sauce."                          Mrs. Gleason is happy because Mrs. Lin likes her food.

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The girl and her family are having trouble fitting in and following the ways of Americans. "When a large shloop reached him, he froze. The bottle continued to pour, and red wine f looded the tabletop and into the lap of a customer. Even the customer didn’t notice anything at first, being also hypnotized by the shloop, shloop, shloop."

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I think she is having trouble getting used to the American ways because when she stepped on someone's foot she blurted out something that did not make sense

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during our early days here we had a hard time with
American table manners.

They probably feel like they don't fit in

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One character inference in the story All American Slurp is politeness and manners are important to the protagonist. The short story states " I insisted on paying for the milkshakes. After all, I was still hostess"

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"Mrs. Gleason bent down and whispered to us, “This is a buffet dinner. You help yourselves to some food and eat it in the living room.” I think that the that family is embarrassed.

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I infer that the mother still wants to live by Chinese culture/rules even though she now lives in America.

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I infer that the mother still wants to live by Chinese culture/rules even though she now lives in America.

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My evidence is, "'You can’t go out in public like that! People can see all the way up to your thighs!' 'I’m sorry,' I said innocently."

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The Lin family couldn't complete the puzzle "We soon got all the furniture we needed, plus a dart board and a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle (fourteen hours later, we discovered that it was a 999-piece jigsaw puzzle).

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Linseys brother is popular. I think this because the text said
"My brother didn't have any problems Making friends" This makes me think he is popular.

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I began to relax. The Gleasons’ dinner party wasn’t so different from a Chinese meal after all. My mother also puts everything on the table and hopes for the best. Now they are starting to realize that china is not to much different than the USA.

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When her mum said she could not get jeans she was annoyed.

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They are having a lot of trouble molding into English ways. For example, "Once she accidentally stepped on someone’s foot, and hurriedly blurted, “Oh, that’s quite all right!” Embarrassed by her slip, she resolved to do better next time. So when someone stepped on her foot, she cried, “You’re welcome!”"

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I think she is still not used to American foods and traditions. She is still used to her own traditions.

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We were pretty much the same size, since Meg was shorter and thinner than average. Maybe that’s how we
became friends in the first place.
The two girls have a lot in common.