Summary Of The Novel 'Niyah Chop's Christmas'

During the Christmas dinner, Amy finds herself ashamed of how different she is, though her parents view their culture as normal and think it makes their daughter unique. Despite the way her parents embrace their culture, Amy is unable to overlook how far she is from her standards of a normal American girl. With the news that her parents had invited over the minister’s family for Christmas eve dinner, Amy discovers a newfound embarrassment in her culture, brought on by her fear of how Robert, the minister’s son and the boy she loves, will see her culture. Amy begins to see things how she assumes Robert will view her culture, and becomes judgmental and uncomfortable with her relatives’ behavior. What once were her favorite foods suddenly seemed so gross that Amy couldn’t imagine why anyone would willingly eat them. Tan’s contrast of the different perspectives on the Christmas dinner reveals Amy’s feeling of shame and her indifference to the rest of her family’s pride in their culture.

It was Christmas time and there was smell of pine trees in the air. Even though slavery was forbidden, Gianna was still treated unfairly. When Gianna went out with Paula and Ethan to get a Christmas tree, she could not go into the same area that Paula and Ethan could. Word had got out that there was the Christmas Dance coming up. Gianna wanted to go but she had no dress. “C’mon Gianna, we are leaving!!!” yelled Paula. “Where are we going?” asked Gianna. “We are going to get you a dress for the dance!” answered Paula. “OK! Let’s go!” exclaimed

Is there any coffee left?” Ernest asked, holding up his cup. “Sure,” Don said and filled it. “I don’t know if you knew it, but once Butch healed, he was the sweetest dog, I have ever seen. He lived in our home for years until we gave him to my nephew for his son.” Ernest smiled and said, “I never knew that. It was funny at the time you scared the hell out of me when you told me you gave no one discounts. If anybody asked for one that you charged them double.” “I remember the expression on your face was priceless.” “It surprised me when you told me, your name was Don and to never call you doctor again.” Ernest said, "It sure didn’t take you long to decide you wanted the sick animals, and I could have the healthy ones until we found homes for them. Was that your original plan?” “Oh, no, when I saw you with the injured dog, I knew at once, we could work together, and the stories around town about you were bullshit,” he said, as the phone rang. “Dr. Kelley, my I help you,” answering the phone, he said. “What’s wrong with Fluffy today?” “Sure, I’ll come by after work. It will not be necessary to bring Fluffy to the

What are you-all up too?” “Nothing much.” Simone and David walked in. “How’s Angelica?” ask David. “She’s sleeping.” said Marie. “I’m going to go and peep in.” said Simone. “She went to Angelicas room, walked in. Angelica was watching television. “Hey sleepy head, you’re woke.” “Hey Simone, Where’s David?” “He’s up front talking to Momma and Aunt Lori.” “How long you been here?” ask Angelica. “I just got here, Angelica, Momma told me that you’ve been having headaches, Are you okay?” “Yeah, I’m fine, the pain pills Mom gives me, stops it.” “You know I love you right.” “I know, Simone, Is it true?” “Is what true?” “I seen the news this morning, Is Brittany dead?” “Uh-.” “Simone, please, tell me, Is she dead?” Simone sat down next to Angelica.

Piedad removed the duck and told Deyonnah to, “Finish your snack first.” Deyonnah went back to the snack table and sat down. Deyonnah got up and Ms. Piedad redirected her back to the table to clean up. Deyonnah flopped to the ground, “Bye everybody, bye, bye” she cried. The telephone rang and Ms. Piedad went to answer it. Deyonnah got up and began to climb up the cubby to get the popcorn. Ms. Chantel went to the cubby and removed the popcorn. Deyonnah hit Ms. Chantel and cried, “Why you crying?” Ms. Chantel told her, “Its ok, don’t cry. I’ll give you a napkin.” Ms. Chantel placed the napkin on the table and gave Deyonnah more popcorn. Deyonnah ate a handful then got up, ran to the carpet area and ran in circles around the stool. She then went back to the table and ate a few more pieces of popcorn, then ran back to the stool and ran in circles. Ms. Piedad prompted Deyonnah to go back to the table and helped her throw her stuff away. Deyonnah then grabbed the toys from the table, ran to the cabinet and got the whisper phone then went back to the table and began to eat her classmate’s popcorn. When her classmate returned to the table Deyonnah ran back to the carpet area and ran in

When they arrived Cinderella got out the car slamming the door. Walking up to the porch cinderella’s head was bowed down. After Daisy opens the front door, she tells Cinderella “Your room is upstairs, first door to the right.” Cinderella just looked at her and went upstairs to her room to get everything ready the way she likes. Cinderella was just staring out the window blankly when Becky came in to help her unpack. Becky asked “Are you ok?” Cinderella responded “yea,.. I just really miss my dad.” “it’s ok cinderella i grew up without a dad, i guess that makes us kinda the same.”Cinderella stared at the floor. Becky knew she wasn’t in the mood to talk, so Becky got up told her

One of the workers woke up. She looked around for a bit and she was still half asleep so she couldn’t really see or know what she was doing. So, she fell back asleep………….. It was a little while after the worker fell back to sleep. It was like 6:30 am, and one of the other workers woke up. He was wide awake and so he went outside and went on a walk. While he was walking another woke up he just wanted food so he went out and went fishing. The last worker woke up and she was still kind of sleepy so she read a book. She was wondering if anybody had seen Susana because she hadn’t seen her. “Oh well,” she thought. It was 10:00 am, and the worker that fell back to sleep woke up Susana slept in the sleeping bag right next to hers so when she looked down it was empty.” Oh well”, she thought. Then once the two girls were ready, they went to see what the other workers were doing. The boy workers had met up by now. Once the girl workers had gone there they asked. “Hey where is Susana we thought she was with you guys.” “ Nope we thought she was with you.” the boy workers said.” “OH NO!! WE LOST HER!!!!!! They all screamed. They all started searching and searching for places. In the bushes, trees, and nowhere was she found. The workers called down everybody from Atwood, so everybody started searching and searching. It was almost dark and everybody was sitting down when one of the kids whispered” SHHH I hear a

“Ho ho ho” as a kid hops onto his lap. “What would you like for Christmas?” As you know, it is SANTA! During the time is holiday shopping season. There is tons of kids who want to see Santa when they go out with their parents. But a Huge change happen at the Macy's department store in New York City. There now hiring 5 women to played the role of Santa because those 5 women have no job and there is not enough Santa for the shifts. So Macy's hired the 5 ladies and gave them a shift at Macy's. I can see there trying to make the kids happy, but Santa is a man a kids don't think he a women and can make them unhappy and cried like a baby. No parents or even anyone would want kids unhappy because Christmas is about joy, happiness and family. Than

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“Dad come on let’s go!” Ari exclaimed running around in the lush green fields that once was the scene bloody of a war.

When Cindy was cleaning, she saw a sign that read, “Tonight, Coach Prince from the Women’s Hockey League is coming to the Nashville Gorillas to pick one player to join his team.” Cindy snuck out onto the ice with her equipment for the try-out. She won on all of the drills; however, it was almost midnight. She quickly packed up her belongings and ran outside without knowing she had left one skate behind at midnight.

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