The China Coin

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I have been taken into a village so primitive they file their teeth and eat meat raw Hyperbole
I have been kidnapped by an evil aunt Exaggeration and Satirical Language
Couldn't the woman see? She was not Chinese, not even an ABC-Australian born Chinese. Joan was Chinese, all right, but Dad...had been English. Didn't it show? Inner Monologue repetition of 'not' and 'Chinese'
No she wasn't going home. She was just ducking into a strange and probably hostile country the use of 'strange' and 'hostile
You're not Chinese. You don't even look like them High modality
The half coin was pulling them both into China. Separately. For Joan the coin was the key to a lost family... Symbolism of the 'coin'
Let Joan find her family, she was going for her Dad Juxtaposition
I hate it, I hate China High modality
Imagine Joan living here...Leah smiled and stretched into the swaying fork of the tree...she might want to stay Inner monologue
As the sun set the expanded family ate small paddy fish, salted poem and rice under plum tree Visual imagery
"We are sorry for such a poor meal" Jade said, "It is lovely. Great" said Leah. and she meant it Dialogue
For the first time, Leah was thinking of Joan's family as her family, Joan's grandfather was her great grandfather. Joan's father was her grandfather and Swallow grandfather was her great uncle-if she wanted it that way Repetition of 'her' and The use of dash (-)
Leah realised that Joan had defended her by conjuring up the nation's old devil-general and rubbing the grey woman's nose in the memory Positive connotation
You can't keep on being angry with you mother all your life. Can you? Not after the train Rhetorical question
It's us again the world 1st person pronoun 'us'
Orphan Annie. Look you walked here. Walk back Inner monologue
The night of the mob taught me something important. When everything's gone, when there's nothing more you can do, it is best to turn away Emotive language
For an instant, Leah saw that night through the eyes of a very little girl. Terrible! So terrible... Emotive language
Suddenly they were on top of the world. Suddenly the terrors, the long journeys...Suddenly Joan had found her father's ancestral village and she had found the home of the coin Repetition of 'suddenly'
It was funny, Leah thought, how things changed every time they moved. In Guangzhou Jan was a stranger, on the first train she was an ally, in Shanghai an enemy, in Wuhan a little girl with nightmare, in Chongquin a mother Descriptive language
...she wiped at the midst in her eyes with a clenched forearm and jerked away from the hospital Metaphor
Joan's dragging you off to China, Joan's trying to make you part of her Chinese family, Joan's trying to bury Dad's memory Repetition of 'Joan'
She supposed Joan, crazy Joan, was in there somewhere, part of the cure, part of growing up, part of everything Repetition of 'part of'
The two women clung together in the back of the crowded truck Simple emotive statement
You're not Chinese, but you're not not Chinese either. It doesn't matter Repetition of 'not' and Inner monologue
Leah lifted the egg to her eye, saw the split coin, almost one again Metaphor
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