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Rules of the Game by Amy Tan

The story is about the Chinese culture and the chess-game. A girl whose name is Waverly Place Jong, the official name after the street that she and her family lived on. Her family used to call her Meimei at home. Her family was Chinese-origin but they lived in Chinatown of San Francisco. Meimei learnt a lot about the market products when she went out with her mom during their shopping especially on Saturdays.

When Christmas came, they went to the church where they prayed and got a gift donated from the member of other church. At the gift- giving area, when Santa asked Meimei how old she was and she got puzzled because she was not sure about her age due to the American formula not same as Chinese calendar. Her brothers received the chess from the Santa and played it during the Christmas week. Thus, Meimei learned what her brothers were doing with the chess by watching them. Later on, Meimei was interested in playing chess with them. On the way back to her home, she saw a group of boys playing the chess games, she realized she could learn from them if she plays with them so she ran to get the chess and play with them. Then Meimei joined the group and ask the man whose name is Lau Po. He taught her many new things especially American rules about the chess game and also how to play the chess.

Later on, she became the champions because she won many places. Her mother was very proud of her. However, Meimei dislike her mother’s attitude because she was showing her off to people when they were walking past in the market. This same thing has happened to my family especially me and mom. When I got the first place in my elementary school external exams, mom was overwhelmed and very impressed with my results and she kept telling everyone who visited her about me being Deaf but I got excellent grades all the times. This made me feeling enough (tired) for her to tell everyone about me. Because she just wanted to show that her son can do anything in this world.