Thursday, July 15, 2010

What Means Switch

The story What Means Switch by Gish Jen, is about a Chinese girl name Mona Chang that is trying to fit in with the social people in her new school.She has difficult time telling the truth,and told lies that she knows karate because somebody was taking all the attention away from her.She also expresses about how you can get prenant from tea,and how chinese people eat monkey brain which isn't even their cultral food it's mostly tomatoes.
When a girl name Danielle Meyers,said that she had two boyfriends and she kissed them both,she got into peer presure and she was looking for a boyfriend too.Then a japanese boy name Sherman that enrolls to the same school.She offers to be his mentor in speaking and other things of such.At the end of the year Sherman moves and Mona ends up writing to him and he breaks up with her because he realizes that the whole reason of having him was for poplarity and she is heart broken.

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  1. what are three characteristics of Mona in the short story?

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