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China Boy Event

 

Mah-Mee very his only son, Kai Ting

Edna physical and emotional abuse Kai Ting

 

 

Kai learning at YMCA and meet many wonderful people like uncle Shim and Mr. Lewis.

 

 

 

 Kai Ting fight with Big Willie Mack (I want to jump inside and help Kai fighting).

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Uncle Shim buys Kai new clothes, which make him look very Chinese style, and takes him to the chess association meeting, where they friendly to him because they are men without families.  Shim who feels like to give up in boxing now feels good about it.  Kai feels like a he was a first-born son. Uncle Shim is a good friend of Kai’s father, but he was a closer friend with Mah-mee.  He was to be Kai’s tutor (like Tutor Luke had been to the girls) and when TK or Kai father was gone, he did come and stay with the family.  Uncle Shim is a traditional Chinese man whose is wise and he calls Kai Haushehen (able student), which is a great honor.

  Uncle Shim says Kai is their collective only son, and the hope for a new China. Uncle Shim compared to Hector. Hector is a mechanic at Cutty’s garage, one of the first non-black and non-Chinese people Kai meets.  He tells Kai to call him tío, he is the one who influences Kai to go to the YMCA, and he teaches him some Spanish and to walk in a more appropriate way.  He believes you should never hide from a fight, a man should fight like a man not to hide. He believes that the problem will still stay there someday you still need to solve it so why not to fight now.  He is a war vet and has tattoos.

After Kai fighting against Jerome (Lucky) Washington and winning, Kai realizes that it is so stupid but is he feel better that he won. Later Kai just discovers about gender difference when he realizes his sisters won’t learn to box. Normaly the girl won’t learn about those boxing and fighting, usually the boy will learn.

Big Willie Mack the biggest bad guy and Jerome beat Kai up.  Kai feel depressed and he skips the first Y lesson of the new year to go to the beach and remember his mother Mah-Mee. He never skip the class before this is his first time. Mr. Lewis finds out Kai is upset because he was beat up and because he can’t remember his mother’s face.  Kai’s fight with Big Willie is to be a baptism of childhood.

The night before the fight, Kai sleeps with his talisman (his blankie, a picture of his mother, Hector’s Yankees hat, the tractor oil Hector gave him to throw on Willie to make him angry) in the bathtub. Kai beats Willie so badly he looks like Jerome’s mother after she was almost killed by her husband. After  Kai win, he says “Tsou gou wan ba dan” ? After the fight and having gotten cleaned up by Toos’s mom, Kai goes home, rings the doorbell, and when Edna won’t let him in, so he says, “You not my Mah-mee…I ain’t fo’ yo’ pickin-on no mo’!”

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Kai tries to run away again, and the first time, Edna have stopped him from the first time, but  this time he was able to run away, this time he goes to Toussaint’s building and he leaves after that place after finding Suds (the drunk who used to be a fighter). Toussaint is a kid Kai’s age, who gives him some fighting pointers, tells him fighting has roots in slavery because men could prove their manhood, and wants to hear stories about his father because his died in WWII.  Toussaint’s mother is a maternal figure for Kai.  She is very poor, but shares her food and love.  Toos tries to help Kai talk in a way more appropriate for his neighborhood.

Kai get’s beaten up a lot and even the small kids also and when Kai tries to fight back for the first time, the kid runs away with a bloody nose, but his older sister finds him and beats him badly in a garbage can.  Hector has to say something to convince her to stop. Hector cleans him up in Cutty’s garage then and then he talks to Kai’s dad about him needing to learn to box at the YMCA.  Edna is very judgmental. So, Kai and his father have some talk about having been in the war, his brother Han being a Chinese boxer, and how he (TK) is American, but maybe China would be better for Kai because he’s is very weak. He needs to learn some boxing so that he can help himself preventing the bully.

Kai’s father takes Kai out of school to go with him to the bank to deliver the money he had been trusted to transport.  Kai father do like this because he wants to teach Kai about honesty and work ethic, but they didn’t communicate well together.

Mr. Lewis was an African American instructor at the Y, supervisor over the other instructors.  He believes in a mind-first approach to boxing. Mr. Lewis encourages Kai to speak clearly because Kai is the only American-born child in the family and he was the only one who struggles with English because the others had had formal teachers.

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Edna was a bad step mother, at first time everyone think that she was a normal kind person. Who know it that how she was from the beginning. After staying in that family, Edna starts showing her true color. First, she use emotional abuse to Janie and Kai somehow it hurt the feeling inside of Janie and Kai, but later she start to use physical abuse like hitting them, it is very hurt to the skin. It normal that she don’t like them because they are not her own children, but still she should not abuse them, rather in emotional ways or physical ways. All the bad things that Edna do, the father don’t know about it.

Before Mah-mee died of cancer, Mah-mee had valued and used facial expressions to communicate with the entire family member, especially with Kai, but Edna very hates Kai’s facial expressions. Kai wanted to be black, but when he met some white girls, who all were Edna’s nieces, he thought they were better because they were better fed and had nicer clothes. Kai have a low esteem because of Edna. When Edna didn’t come to this family Kai wasn’t like this, he was just a normal boy.

Edna had fall in lobe by stories of TK’s former wealth and had not realized the family’s finances were waning.  When it becomes obvious, she tells the children it must be a secret.  They should tell others the family is saving up for something. TK’s boss, Madame Amethyst Jade Cheng, had escaped from China with ample wealth.  She is invigorated everyday by her freedom, brought about by wealth.

Edna burns Mah-mee’s things, which contained all the family’s treasures and was very difficult which brought in the Run from China.  Everyone including Kai’s father is angry.  Edna tells Kai his mother is dead, Kai just know that his mother didn’t go to Song Hai, but died in cancer. Kai realizes he’s losing his Songhai.

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The main character of this story name is call Kai Ting, he is the only son in the family and he is the only American-born son. In his family he have 3 older sister name Jennifer(oldest one), Megan(second), and Janie(youngest sister). He is the only son so his Mah Mee (Mother) love him the most. His father is a Former National Army Officer and his best friend is Norman Schwarzt, an American missionary’s son and army officer.

           So the story begins in the wartime journey across the Asian land mass from the Yellow Sea to free China, to the Gangetic Plains of India. During the Run, Janie was so young, she was lucky to have resisted all the diseases and dangers, it is very dangerous to escape for a small kid. Kai Ting grow up in San Francisco, that is when the family reach America. Actually their family was rich, but they need to leave because of the war. Kai Ting father is the second-born son of a wealthy family in 1906. When Kai Ting birth, fled China's Communist revolution, leaving their wealth behind. Kai Ting was born in the San Francisco ghetto where his family had relocated in the mid-1940s. He want to be an accepted black male youth. His father destiny was to be a soldier, but because of his children and wife, he did not go to war again. His Mah Mee died of cancer, but Kai Ting don't know about this and he thought that his mother go to Song Hai. When his Mah Mee died that time he is only six years old.

           Not so long Kai Ting father get a new wife name Edna, which she will the step mother of Kai Ting and all his sister. They don't know that how bad this step mother was from the beginning. When the father is there Edna will be like a normal mother, but when the father is not at home Edna will show her true color out.