For example, "I learned later they were jockey clothes. Father and I speculated on the purpose of the figures---whether they were like the lions or the door gods who were meant to protect the house, or what" (YEP 69).

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In the book it said, "About dragons bringing rain to men? And about their being able to change their size and shape?  The demon girl looked skeptical " (YEP 160).
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In the novel it said, ¨I saw some tents here and there--for the most part, old ones with patches on them, or tents improvised out of sheets¨ (YEP 230).
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In the text it said, "You mean there's no Golden Mountain?" I was disappointed and felt a little betrayed" (YEP 21).
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The author states, "As soon as Black Dog had recovered, he promised to reform" (YEP 99).
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In the text it said,  "With a sad twist of his head, Red Rabbit turned away from Father and began to chop along in his slow, methodical pace" (YEP 127).
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In the novel in said, ¨Robin stood on the steps. She heard the shrill voices of the boys and suddenly she nodded her head as if she understood. T did not want to be patronized¨ (YEP 182).
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In the novel it said, ¨We spent a half hour over tea, talking about the Tang people´s town and our respective families back in the Middle Kingdom, and how the boycott had affected them¨ (YEP 192).
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In the novel it said, ¨The only things left were the stove and Uncle´s prize chair, looking lonely and forlorn in the center of the empty room¨ (YEP 226).
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In the novel it said, ¨We had no spare money to replace the broken panes of glass in the windows, but we did the net best thing by taping some heavy paper over the holes and oiling the paper so it became translucent¨ (YEP 266).
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In the novel it said, "I was afraid, and then I thought of the Old Ones. Perhaps they were watching. I had to act Brave at least" (YEP 130).
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In the novel it states, "The best thing about flying kites was what it did for mother" (YEP 7).
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The author wrote, "There was a breeze blowing down the hill and the men had gathered outside, standing on the sidewalks, their hands behind their backs, talking amiably" (YEP 24)
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On page 102, the author states, "She was so repulsive that he beat her in the morning when he got up and beat her in the evening when he came home" (YEP 102).
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In the novel it says, ¨No, I protested I do´´ (YEP 174)
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In the novel it said, "I was curious about the Golden Mountain mainly because my father was there" (YEP 2).
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The text explicitly states, "He was in his eighties and short and fat and built like a rock. He had a round face, with broad cheeks and a week chin that made his lips seem to protrude" (YEP 19-20).
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The book states, "Dragons can be kindly and wise, and quite unlike the fire-breathing, malicious, greedy creatures the white demons seem to think dragons are" (YEP 44).
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In the Text it said, "The kind of person who would own such a window must surely have been royalty in some other life" (YEP 142).
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In the novel it stated, "What´s that?" (YEP 172).
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In the novel it said, ¨Down the alley mouth, I could see the cobblestone street undulate and twist like a red-backed snake¨ (YEP 197).
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In the novel it said, ¨It was not until early August that we received a reply from Mother and Grandmother concerning Father´s revelations¨ (YEP 262).
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In the novel it said, ¨Now that's righteous wine¨ (YEP 301).
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For example, "Well, the Emperor's son will just have to go naked," Hand Clap shouted and they laughed and hooted at that, for there was no love lost for the present Emperor, who was a Manchu, a son of the foreigners who had conquered the Middle Kingdom and who long ago made us wear queues as a sign that we had been beaten by them" (YEP 34).
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In the novel it said, ¨They ambushed me inside one of Mr. Alger's buildings I suppose the thought they could rob me¨ (YEP 153).
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In the novel it said, ¨Call it our penance¨ (YEP 290).
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