1. She explains the rubbery smell of the skunk that her mother is dismembering. To me, this was the strongest description, because I have smelt a skunk fairly up close. Rubbery is definitely one way to explain it. She described how some of the weeds she pulled up had white star flowers, and how she used to hide under her bed with her ears plugged to shut out the screams of the birds being butchered. Also, her mother told her that if it tastes bad, it is good for you. Thus, most things that she had to eat probably tasted bad. As far as touch is concerned, she mentioned how the cooks would grasp a clump of the monkey's hair to open its eye lids and do what they did.
2. Kingston uses the dialogue from her mother without editing. This bluntness enables me to form an image of how her mother was, and that image is one of someone who would cook so exotic animals without hesitation.
3. The story is used to show the mentality of her mother, as mentioned previously. Her mother obviously carried a certain mind set from China to the United States.
4. She used a simile that the flowers were like white starts. An example of personification was where she said that a glass jar kept a clawed hand. I don't really find any metaphors in the reading, though.
5. It is easy for the reader to just read all the things she had to eat, without having to decipher anything. After explaining what she had to eat and how long she had to eat it for, she ended with the simple statement because it was strong enough to describe her disdain for the food she had to eat. Eating plastic would be disgusting, so that says a lot about what she did have to eat.
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