The Rules Of The Game Analysis

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In the passage The Rules of the Game, there is a little girl named Waverly througout the story she is torn apart by two cultures American and Chinese while her mother on the other hand is all for the Chinese culture. In the text we see this many times like when Waverly's mom said "in Chinese we say" and "Chinese people do buisness, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people" This is showing us that Waverly's mother does not care for American culture. But Waverly on the otherhand questions the Chinese culture like when she said "a soup of mysterious things I didn't know the names of." Also, over the course of the story we see a lot of confrontation and competition between the two it all starts at the beginning of the story where

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