The book I am currently reading is called ""Bitter Melon" by Cara Crow. It is about a Hong Kong native girl named Fei Ting. Her name translated is "stop flying", as she says, so when her and her mom moved from Hong Kong to San Francisco, she changed her name to Francis. Her dad walked out on them when she was younger, and her mom still remembers why he did...
And she takes it out on Francis.
Her mom abuses her.
Francis tries her best to live up to her mothers expectations, but her mother sees her as a worthless piece of garbage. Francis tries to help around the house, but her mom tells her to walk away, and when they go to her Aunt Nellie's house, her mom is always complimenting Nellie's daughter Theresa, saying how she helps her mom blah blah blah, then saying how Fei Ting (Francis) never helps around the house, never helps her, never going to be anything in life. Notice how she says she NEVER HELPS AROUND THE HOUSE? If you don't get my drift, read this paragraph again, looking VERY carefully.
When Francis was accidentally enrolled in a Speech class in school, she got very terrified. Her mom wanted her to take calculus so she can boost her SAT score (she got a 1030, but Theresa got a 1350, and her mom believes that Theresa is always going to be smarter than Francis if she doesn't get it together), get into Berkeleys College, become a medical student, then graduate to become a doctor and help her mother get a good life back. So when a speech competition came around, Francis' teacher, Ms.Taylor, encouraged her to go compete in it since she is the best in class. Francis did, and she won 3rd place and got a trophy. She was happy at the time, embasking the fame and accomplishment, until it hit her:
Where would she hide the trophy? Her mom never knew she took speech, so what is she supposed to do?!
Since, by now, her and Theresa are close friends, Theresa offered to hide the trophy in her house. She knew about everything, so she helped Francis by meeting her in the library after Speech rehearsals ended, so they could make it look like they were studying calculus. But that all backfired. Theresa's mom found the trophy, and when Francis and her mom went to her house, Aunt Nellie asked what did Francis get on her report card. Now, her mom was infuriated to find the 2 day old report card lying in her bookbag and seeing that calculus was missing, but speech was there. when she started yelling at her, Aunt Nellie intervened by holding out the trophy, hoping it would make her mom happy.
It didn't.
Francis was scared as her mom asked her how many classes she missed to earn that trophy. wqhen she answered two, her mom beat her with the trophy. her Aunt tried to stop it, but her mom just kept on hitting her. when her Aunt told her mom that she was hurting Francis, her mom replied:
"Hurt?! I want her to DIE!"
Some hurtful words, isn't it?
I stopped reading the book from here, because this is a sad book, and I got so deep into it that I felt like getting into the book and killing the mother for what she was doing! But I can't. That's the power of the reading zone! Soo that is where I got up to. So ya. TOODLES!
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