The China Coin Analysis
Chapter
Plot summary quote 1:Coin
Leah and her mum Joan were on their way to China and they want find out the secret of a half on China Coin which lift by Leah’s father.
Leah didn’t like the weather of Guangzhou, she felt not belong to China. China is not her home.
She was not Chinese, not even ABC-Australia born Chinese. P10
No, she wasn’t going home. She was just ducking into a strange and probably hostile country to finish what Dad had started.p11
For Joan the coin was the key to a lost family. She had not known these people exist before the coin.p11
‘Our first discomfort’ Joan smiled weakly. ‘there’ll be many more’ p13
2:China
Joan and Leah stared with their first day in China with the famous yum-cha
Joan decides to change …show more content…
She is not so in the culture. The reason why she come to China is that her father’s secret
Joan had been selling China to Leah form the movement they got up next morning. P15
Maybe it was Pearl River once. A long time ago. P16
We did all right here. He tried to catch us with the old little-not-trick. You can’t count the little notes and he was going to make sure you couldn’t count them right.p17
Leah found the market a relief. Off the road into a covered lane, a clutter of dried things, stacked, hanging from hooks. P19
The youth stepped out from the lamppost. He was carrying a shoulder bag full of rough posters, a pot of paste and a dripping bush. ‘Ah…’ he was fumbling for the words. ‘Telling the facts. P22
I hate it. I hate China. P23
3: The village
Joan found the village which her families might be there and they decide to go to there in …show more content…
Oh, that it could go back to that. P24
‘found an office clerk who wasn’t asleep all the time and she found the village, Liang Tian, a map, near the town of Xianhua p24
Mum was no longer Mrs Waters. She was Joan Ji, as if she had never married Dad. Joan asked the woman with the hoe if she knew of any families with relatives in Australia. P27
Grand father took one sweeping step and wrapped his arms about Joan. ‘Welcome back, sister. P33
4: Famliy
Joan show Lian Fu’s last letter to Lian Zhong when Lian fu was very sick at that time.
Joan and Leah stay in Ji’s family and they were talking about the old dark times.
When they were watching news on TV, and they saw the news about students protesting in Beijing.
She’s changing a little, starting feel comfortable. First seed of belonging
‘Your mother and I came from a village two hours north-east from Canton. It is called Good Field and you may find our family there.’ P35
Joan knew the clue of the coin for her father’s letter
Chairman Mao said, ‘make iron for China!’ so we cut down all the trees on our hiss for our backyard furnaces and my mother had to buy new pots to melt down for Mao’s iron. And the iron was no good. It was stupid.
Plot summary quote 1:Coin
Leah and her mum Joan were on their way to China and they want find out the secret of a half on China Coin which lift by Leah’s father.
Leah didn’t like the weather of Guangzhou, she felt not belong to China. China is not her home.
She was not Chinese, not even ABC-Australia born Chinese. P10
No, she wasn’t going home. She was just ducking into a strange and probably hostile country to finish what Dad had started.p11
For Joan the coin was the key to a lost family. She had not known these people exist before the coin.p11
‘Our first discomfort’ Joan smiled weakly. ‘there’ll be many more’ p13
2:China
Joan and Leah stared with their first day in China with the famous yum-cha
Joan decides to change …show more content…
She is not so in the culture. The reason why she come to China is that her father’s secret
Joan had been selling China to Leah form the movement they got up next morning. P15
Maybe it was Pearl River once. A long time ago. P16
We did all right here. He tried to catch us with the old little-not-trick. You can’t count the little notes and he was going to make sure you couldn’t count them right.p17
Leah found the market a relief. Off the road into a covered lane, a clutter of dried things, stacked, hanging from hooks. P19
The youth stepped out from the lamppost. He was carrying a shoulder bag full of rough posters, a pot of paste and a dripping bush. ‘Ah…’ he was fumbling for the words. ‘Telling the facts. P22
I hate it. I hate China. P23
3: The village
Joan found the village which her families might be there and they decide to go to there in …show more content…
Oh, that it could go back to that. P24
‘found an office clerk who wasn’t asleep all the time and she found the village, Liang Tian, a map, near the town of Xianhua p24
Mum was no longer Mrs Waters. She was Joan Ji, as if she had never married Dad. Joan asked the woman with the hoe if she knew of any families with relatives in Australia. P27
Grand father took one sweeping step and wrapped his arms about Joan. ‘Welcome back, sister. P33
4: Famliy
Joan show Lian Fu’s last letter to Lian Zhong when Lian fu was very sick at that time.
Joan and Leah stay in Ji’s family and they were talking about the old dark times.
When they were watching news on TV, and they saw the news about students protesting in Beijing.
She’s changing a little, starting feel comfortable. First seed of belonging
‘Your mother and I came from a village two hours north-east from Canton. It is called Good Field and you may find our family there.’ P35
Joan knew the clue of the coin for her father’s letter
Chairman Mao said, ‘make iron for China!’ so we cut down all the trees on our hiss for our backyard furnaces and my mother had to buy new pots to melt down for Mao’s iron. And the iron was no good. It was stupid.