This story takes place in China. There, the buildings are stoutly constructed of bricks.
Chang, who is a merchant tailor, lives in a tower room and he rents the others. His wife and his daughter, Yenna, work together. Yenna is a really beautiful girl. All day long, she and her mum sit by the tower window and sew. They like singing while they work.
One day, a young man comes into the store, because he needs some mending. After seeing the girl, he goes there many times. They fall deeply in love. But as spring comes, he has to leave. She gives him a ginger, and tells him that she will wait for him.
After some years, the man comes back. He wants to marry her and goes to live in a farm. But she can’t go with him, because her dad can’t stay alone…
The reason that I don’t write the end of the story is because that may be you want it to discover it by your own.
I hope you like it.
Anush
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2 years ago
This seems to be a nice story. Is it included in a book of stories?
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This short story is part of a book called "Tales from Gold Mountain" by Paul Yee. In this set of short stories he tells us how people from China try to adapt themselves to the New World,and shares with us their hard experincies. The author also decides to tell stories about people he is familiar with his language, culture, etc.
ReplyDeleteI would recommed reading "Sons And Daughters". At least it was the one I like the most!!!
Pedro
I think that all the stories are really interesting. Chinese cultural aspects and the contributions that they made to Canada are shown through these stories.It`s a relly good book and I think we can use the stories at school, to show students the variety of ways of living, respecting the variety being tolerant with the one that belongs to other groups, other traditions.
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