Blog- Chapter 9 The Jade Peony

In this chapter, it is under Sekky’s point of view and he is describing as his grandmother died and what led up to it. Sekky’s Grandma refused to go to the hospital saying it was only a cold. She could go through the garbage with Sekky to look for junk and hide it under her bed. The older siblings are embaressed at their grandmother for poking through the garbage like beggars and as they say this Sekky kicks Jung and there is a little sibling fight “You know little Son, whatever happens I will never leave you” I think this is a good example of believable dialogue because during the grandmothers final moments, she says this to the little boy, him not knowing really to answer. We also see some sibling jealousy when Sekky doesn’t have to go to Madarin school and brother Jung has too. Also some drama as the children complain in learning Mandarin and the father says they have no trouble learning latin, german and French and they answer it is because those are “logical” languages in a logical world and Grandmother tries to ease the tensions which she does rarely in the novel.