Summary of Grace M. Cho's Tastes Like War

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I visited my mother, who was confined to her apartment, and she had never before been outside without her. The house was filled with her favorite colors and neutral tones, which reminded me of the creamy mushroom casseroles on the dinner tables of my American cousins.
#2 My mother had never been outside the house without her. She hated the name of the flower that was growing on the balcony, because it sounded like cycle. She was tired of the same thing over and over.
#3 In 2001, my mom was living with me in Queens. She’d hardly been eating for years, and when the Twin Towers were hit, she did nothing to warn me.
#4 My mom had never been outside the house without her. She hated the name of the flower that was growing on the balcony because it sounded like cycle. She was tired of the same thing over and over.

Sujets

• History
• United States
• Histoire

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350032499
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Grace M. Cho's Tastes Like War
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I visited my mother, who was confined to her apartment, and she had never before been outside without her. The house was filled with her favorite colors and neutral tones, which reminded me of the creamy mushroom casseroles on the dinner tables of my American cousins.

#2

My mother had never been outside the house without her. She hated the name of the flower that was growing on the balcony, because it sounded like cycle. She was tired of the same thing over and over.

#3

In 2001, my mom was living with me in Queens. She’d hardly been eating for years, and when the Twin Towers were hit, she did nothing to warn me.

#4

My mom had never been outside the house without her. She hated the name of the flower that was growing on the balcony because it sounded like cycle. She was tired of the same thing over and over.

#5

I visited my mother, who was confined to her apartment, and she had never before been outside without her. The house was filled with her favorite colors and neutral tones.

#6

My mother was born in 1922, during the Japanese occupation of Korea. She and her siblings were raised to speak only Japanese, as their colonized childhoods were marked by American and Soviet occupation following World War II. They were the only survivors.

#7

I visited my mother, who was confined to her apartment, and she had never before been outside without her. The house was filled with her favorite colors and neutral tones. My mother was born in 1922 during the Japanese occupation of Korea. She and her siblings were raised to speak only Japanese.

#8

My mom was born in 1922 during the Japanese occupation of Korea. She and her siblings were raised to speak only Japanese. She had never been outside the house without her.

#9

My mother was born in 1922 during the Japanese occupation of Korea. She and her siblings were raised to speak only Japanese. She had never been outside the house without her. My aunt confirmed that my dead aunt was a vision of otherworldly proportions.

#10

My mom was born in 1922 during the Japanese occupation of Korea. She and her siblings were raised to speak only Japanese. She had never been outside the house without her. I visited my mother, who was confined to her apartment, and she had never before been outside without her.

#11

I visited my mother, who was confined to her apartment, and she had never before been outside without her. The house was filled with her favorite colors and neutral tones. She was born in 1922 during the Japanese occupation of Korea.

#12

My mother was born in 1922 during the Japanese occupation of Korea. She and her siblings were raised to speak only Japanese. She had never been outside the house without her. I visited my mother, who was confined to her apartment, and she had never before been outside without her.

#13

The American presence in Korea was largely ambivalent, as the country was grateful for the opportunities provided by the bases, but resentments still ran high because Americans enjoyed privileges that most Koreans had never imagined. Even the women who flocked to the American bases were eventually stripped of their rights.

#14

My mom was born in 1922 during the Japanese occupation of Korea. She and her siblings were raised to speak only Japanese. She had never been outside the house without her. I visited my mother, who was confined to her apartment, and she had never before been outside without her.

#15

My mom was born in 1922 during the Japanese occupation of Korea. She and her siblings were raised to speak only Japanese. She had never been outside the house without him. I visited my mother, who was confined to her apartment, and she had never before been outside without him.

#16

My father’s family came from Chehalis, Washington, which was named after a group of Indigenous people that were not even acknowledged as a people.

#17