Shaman Narration Guide by Chris Pham https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc en-us 2023-01-29 14:04:21 UTC 2025-08-11 01:25:26 UTC hello@padlet.com "Once in a long while...." (57) chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461577987 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. ]]> 2023-01-30 15:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461577987 "In China there was time to complete feelings." (60) chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461585630 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. ]]> 2023-01-30 15:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461585630 "At the dormitory the school official assigned her to a room..." (61) chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461587208 We are now entering doctor training arc. ]]> 2023-01-30 15:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461587208 "Oh, no. A Sitting Ghost" (69) chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461592337 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). ]]> 2023-01-30 15:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461592337 Brave Orchid (71) chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461594205 We are finally told Kingston's mother's name. ]]> 2023-01-30 15:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461594205 "Whup. Whup." My mother told the sound of new fire so that I remember it. "Whup Whup". (74) chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461596043 I literally wrote in my annotations, "Ok Kingston. Ok." ]]> 2023-01-30 15:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461596043 "They laughed at the smell." (75) chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461598989 We have completed the doctor training arc as well as the mini ghost arc. We are not entering into market place arc.  ]]> 2023-01-30 15:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461598989 MARKET PLACE ARC chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461602161 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)....]]> 2023-01-30 15:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461602161 Brave Orchid's...Doctor Arc chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461610818 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). ]]> 2023-01-30 15:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461610818 Laundry - Present Day chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461612478 We make it to present day laundromat (87). ]]> 2023-01-30 15:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461612478 ...and as soon as we get here... chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461615051 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. ]]> 2023-01-30 15:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461615051 Oh it's not over. chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461618287 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]]> 2023-01-30 15:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461618287 But this segues into: Mountain Arc chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461624344 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. ]]> 2023-01-30 15:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461624344 "My mother left China in the winter of 1939..." (96) chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461625713 We are slowly moving back into present time. However, we enter ghost arc pt. 2]]> 2023-01-30 15:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461625713 "How large the world must be to make my grandmother only a taste by the time she reaches me." (99) chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461628530 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. ]]> 2023-01-30 15:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461628530 "When I last visited my parents..." (99) to the end of the chapter: A Conversation Between Mother and Daughter chrispham1 https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461637985 *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. ]]> 2023-01-30 15:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/wjusd/3mkhfz058mvthhkc/wish/2461637985