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The Hundred Secret Senses By A - Online Term Paper

The Hundred Secret Senses By A

This book is about two sisters, one named Olivia and the other Kwan. Olivia lived with her family (lived in San Francisco) and never knew about Kwan her half-sister which her father left behind in China (Changmian) until her father died (of kidney failure even thought he had four of them ~ which (I know I shouldn't) find amusing) when she was only four years old. Olivia's mom promised to bring Kwan to live with them in America which happened two years later. Kwan was now 18 and Olivia was six and her mother was marrying again. Being the stereotypical white woman Olivia's mom is (at the airport), she imagined Kwan to be a small, skinny, shy, and quiet girl. Instead she turns out to a vital ...

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give her the ability to see the dead (it also got her committed in a mental institution for shock therapy).
Tan makes it credible by the broken English Kwan spoke to her sister (couldn't get even her name right, she calls her Libby-ah), even after 30 years, which is where the rest of the book takes place. By now Olivia (a photographer) is married to her soon to be ex-husband Simon.
The plot revolves around the yin eyes that Kwan has. Kwan, Olivia, and her husband go on a business trip to Kwan's homeland. Olivia finally reconciles her relationship with Kwan and learns that all those stories that her sister told her were real. She now believed in ghosts and the hundred secret senses that keep the past alive. The trip brought Olivia and Simon (after he disappears and she worries for him) back together which Kwan was trying to do all along. Then Kwan disappears and is never found again. Nine months later, Olivia had a girl which she thinks is a gift from Kwan because the doctors said ...

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Added: 4/5/2006 11:57:38 PM
Category: English
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