Eat a Bowl of Tea by Louis Chu

From Jacqueline E.

1. Identify and briefly define important words, terms, concepts, of characters.

Characters:

Chong Loo which he is a rent collector of the club house in Chinatown in New York. He is not an old man and people often think of him as a student. He use words like hobbled.

Wang Wah Gay has the title of a person that greets that guest as they come in to the club. Wang is the uncle of Chong Loo. Wang uses words like “you many-mouthed bird. He is a person that lays back and his friends think he is a couch potato.

Ah Song his in or around his forty. The son of Lee Gong.?

Lee Gong worked at a launder mat and work hard to always send money to his family in china. He has a daughter named Mei Oi. Lee Gong also believe in the girls keeping it real until they find a men in there life’s. Because the China girls are having kids before getting married.

2. Summarize the main idea, theme, action, or even of the reading. Be sure to include quotation that best captures the overall feeling or mood of the reading.

The main idea of Eat a Bowl of Tea is that you have many families and the idea of keeping the china values in there culture with the women and men. In the reading you have this one boy that is named Ah Song, he was married a long time ago and had moved to Canada where a widow was rich and he married her. He lived a very good life to others, he ate good was dressing the right way and he did not work for a living. Which had people think about how he got money? And Lee Gong told the friends a story about him that he was married before. Then there was a roomer that he was seen with Lao Woo’s wife at one time. At the end of this all the men got tighter for a little game of dices and it looks like Ah Song is the winner of that game.

3. Formulate a question for discussion. The question should be relatively substantial based upon a specified passage or scene from the text, and capable of sustaining a thoughtful discussion

The discussion I would like to have is: Why do the Chinese men think that If you are not married you shouldn’t have kids. I do understanding that it’s a culture think. But because if you are not married you should not have kids why is that?