Summary
From pages 83 to 123, things for Yen Jun-ling have went up but also went down, like a roller coaster. In the beginning of these pages, Jun-ling gets a pet duck which she names PLT for Precious Little Treasure that she and her friend Chun-mei created. The pet is obedient and is described as Jun-ling's best friend other than her aunt Baba. Unfortunately, PLT dies by being attacked by Jack, the families pet dog. Later, in the next chapter, Jun-ling's older sister, at seventeen years old, gets married to a thirty-year old man, as a arranged marriage. Afterwards, Jun-ling has a day off, that her parents don't know about, and she decides to celebrate her friend, Chun-mei's birthday. When Jun-ling gets home she is punished, because Chun-mei called her house, waiting for Jun-ling, by being slapped and not having food until her father gets home. When he does, Jun-ling is punished again, but with a whip to the back. In these pages, she is also elected class president, but when her friends come over to celebrate her victory, she is again punished by her step-mother. Though, this time, she is to be disowned and sent to an orphanage in Tianjin. What else lies in her future?
Quotation
"How is it possible? I, the same despised daughter publicly rejected by my parents yesterday, an now being honored by my teacher and classmates? Which is the true me?"(Yen Mah 119)
Reaction
In these pages, i feel sorry for the narrator because bad things are happening to her, the next one worse than the last. I also feel like almost yelling in anger at her step-mother Niang because she accuses Jun-ling of theft, lying, and being a bragger because she was elected president. I also think that she gets bad parenting because she is beaten, insulted, and ,again, accused of things that lead to her being slapped, or whipped, or worse, having to be disowned and sent away to a Tianjin orphanage, for a new school, new family, and new friends. I personally think that having to leave friends is a miserable fate for her.
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