1st 10 Sentences of Vignette #1

I was outside, sitting on my porch swing with my golden retriever Phoebe at my feet. The guests would be arriving soon to celebrate my, I mean our birthday. July 24^th 1942 was the day I was born, and three minutes behind was my twin brother James. We were turning 70 today, from now on we’ll officially be known as senior citizens at IHOP. James has been living at my house for the mast four months because his wife Evangeline passed away. I couldn’t bare to see him sad and alone in that big house of his so I insisted he stay with me. After all were a family, always and forever. 

I went inside the house with Phoebe beside me, I stopped when I reached the staircase. Their was a picture there of James and I on our first trip back to France after we moved to Virginia. Our father was french and lived their with my mother until a year after we were born. 

JOY LUCK CLUB

Rules of the Game

A girl named Waverly gets lifesavers for Christmas one year and her brother got a chess board with two pieces missing. Waverly convinces her brother to let her play by giving her two lifesavers. Her brother got board and stopped playing but she continued playing with an old man. She was so good she became well known in her town.

The Voice from the Wall

A girl named Lena has a mom who is from China who doesn't really know english at all. She married an English guy who only knows a couple phrases in Chinese. The St. Clair's move to San Francisco where Lena's mom gets pregnant but her baby dies after he is born. The mother blames herself, and Lena finds comfort in knowing her neighbors are more miserable than her because they are always fighting.

Half and Half

Rose is remembering a time in her life where she became emotionally scared. She was in charge of her brother Bing when her family took a trip to the beach. She let her brother go out on the beach with her father and saw him fall in the water she was shocked and couldn't move. Pretty soon her sister realized he was missing and they all tried searching for the boy. They couldn't find him, but Rose's mom was determined she would find him.

Two Kinds

Jing-Mei comes back to talk about how her mom tries to make her daughter become like her. Jing thinks her mom forces her to play chess and play the piano just like her mom. She has a talent show and comes totally unprepared think she will do great. It proves to be a disaster and she wishes she were dead like her sisters from China