Short Story Of Moon Shadow

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moon shadow starts talking about how he can remember that he wanted to know about the land of the golden mountain but his mother and grandmother did not want to talk about it. All he knew was that his father left ther home in the middle kingdom and traveled overseas to the land of the golden montean. To work in the demon land. His grandfather was lynched right when he stepped foot on the other shours . Moon shadow really wanted to go to the land of the golden mountain to see his father when he turned 8 his cousin hand clap came to visit him and he brought a letter from his father which said that he thinks it is time for him to go to the golden lantern with him his mother and grandmother were not sure if this was a good idea of not .They were …show more content…
Moon shadow explains how moon shadow explains that the tang men can have multiple names windeler shows moon shadow his room which was filled with a bunch of different foreign machines. windeler shows him all the strange things like earphone a crystal set electric light bulbs uncle bright stars through a wooden carving at moon shadow and and embarrassing gift it was carved as a monkey moon shadow keeps it as a good gift he thinks it mens something .moon shadow keeps the creator a secret like uncle bright star would like it to be. moon shadow spends long hours working with his family moon shadow goes to a special school for tang boys because they can't go to the same school as the american children it was very unfunded and crummy windeler pulled over red rabbit to offer his help but they did not want his help. Then windeler offered to give mr.alger some money but they did not want it …show more content…
By the time winter rain then wher not becoming rich but they were doing well. they will put money into a old jar so they can save money to bring mother and grandmother to the land of the golden montean lefty warns moon shadow and the three men hide from the trope of soldiers passing by knowing they will go to jail if the got chote .moonshadow and windeler moves to the foot hills of oakland they used the whitlaws wagon before selling it for them to move all their stuff they moved to a plot of land that once had been a rich estate belonging to espranza a family the land was a mess of unending orchards of cherry trees ,apples and apricot trees windeler showed him to the barn next to the ran down mansion and it reked of horse poo moon shadow woke shadow woke up before windeler and handclap was standing with a wagon the lees keep in touch with the whi and meet with the whitlaws every sunday windeler when to the middle kingdom to get mother and grandmother to bring them to the land of the golden mountain moon shadow goes to visit the whitlaws oakland and sits on a swing with robin and they reflect how lucky they both are then they both race to get mrs. whitlaws milk and

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