Please answer the following questions.  Please elaborate as much as you can.  Extremely short answers will be marked wrong.  Offer a good amount of reflection on each answer.  

1.     Describe each main character, and explain why you think each is a main character. 

2.     Describe each supporting character, and explain why you think each is a supporting character.

3.     Describe the setting of the story.

4.     Outline the events of the story in order.

5.     Identify and explain all of the conflicts involved in the story.  

Please explain the importance or relevance of each quotation from the story.  Why are these quotations important? What do they reveal about the story, characters, setting, etc.?  Please elaborate as much as you can and offer a good amount of reflection on each answer. 

1.     “‘Of course, you can be prodigy, too,’ my mother told me when I was nine.”

2.     “She talked to Mr. Chong, who lived on the first floor of our apartment building.”

3.     “But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different, and I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.”

4.     “I was so caught up in how lovely I looked that I wasn’t worried about how I would sound.  So I was surprised when I hit the first wrong note.”

5.     “‘Only two kinds of daughters,’ she shouted in Chinese. ‘Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!’”