Fish Cheeks Analysis

Fish Cheeks The author uses a narrative pattern to illustrate her main idea that every culture is different and people should not be embarrassed about their cultures. In fact, the author tells her own story in chronological order to create a clear timeline of events in the mind of the ready and about how things happen over time. The author deftly portrays the contradictory feelings and the advantages of a girl who faces different cultures. For example, in the first paragraph she says “I fell in love with the minister’s son the winter I turned fourteen”. Here she shows how she fell in love for the first time with someone who has a different race and cultures, which is the first events in her story. She also says “On Christmas Eve I saw that