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April A Hungry Ghost Analysis
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson chapter :"April A Hungry Ghost" by Bette Bao Lord explain how Shirley feel when losing her confidence "day by day, week by week, little by little" until she has no more. First, Joseph invited her to play stoop ball, and she was really happy since she knows how to play. But then her teammate discovered she's not really good at it, so they kicked her out of the game. Then, they are picking the poem to recite in her class, but she picked the wrong one so the whole class including her teacher were laughing at her during the presentation. Last, Shirley thought she would have a new friend when the girl that looks like Chinese came to her school, but when she got a chance to talk to the Chinese girl, it
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