Question One

Li’s family faces great hardships, but also experiences kindness and joy. Find three examples of each in this chapter.

Li's family lived in extreme poverty and you can tell when he says his dia was often up before five thirty in the morning and work until late which would be very hard.

he also says that his niang would have to walk twenty minutes to get to the local stream were she would wash all their clothes.

they had to use half burnt coal as well to help the fire when we could just push a button and have as much as we like so that would also have been hard for them and finding it would also be hard.

Li's family although living in poverty did have some good times like when they were running around the house and making chaos in front of there fourth brothers teacher.

their favorite time was when their dia would tell them fables or stories like the frog in the well etc.

and their favorite game that they would play every night, their version of I spy with the words in the news paper covering the walls.

Examples in chapter 2 that the Li family also experiences kindness and joy like when Li's niang and dia joke around when the main ingredients weren't added to the meal. Li's brothers have made there own game of "I-Spy", where there was newspapers stuck to the word and someone had to choose a word on it, and whoever found the word first would choose the next word.

Li’s family faces great hardships, but also experiences kindness and joy. Find three examples of each in this chapter.

Hardship
1. Both parents worked very long day getting up before five thirty every morning just to make food and go to the fields.
2. His niang had to do the washing which was a long walk. Also his niang cooked made clothes and quilts and worked in the fields she barley had time or energy to interact with her 7 kids.
3. Li’s niang grew sick and they could not afford to take her to the doctor they had never seen her ill before and now that she was ill there was responsibilities to be taken over by the seven boys.

Kindness
1. Both his niang and dia were both very kind people they were well licked in the community. She was respectful and open minded towards new Ideas.
2. Li’s niang had fainted on the Northing Hill and no one was home to help her get back down Li rushed up the hill to find washing everywhere he raced back down to find some help luckily a bike rider was riding past he yelled for him to help him the man peddled up the hill and brought his niang back down to their house
3. Li’s dia was very patient and good tempered Li can only remember getting angry once he was always nice to his seven sons.

Joy
1. One of the games his brothers and him would play was I-Spy one of us would choose he word on the wall full of news paper and the rest of us would have to try and guess it.
2. His dia tried to make his niang a hot meal for her sickness but when he gave it to her she ate it and said to him are we out of salt and soy source. They both burst into laughter because his dia had forgotten the main two ingredients to the meal
3. Cunsangs teacher came over to his house to talk to his parents about school. We were laughing and mucking around our dia gave us a dark look and his niang apologized for there misbehaving. After a few seconds of silence Cunsang whispered in our ears she let out a fart the other day and pretended it wasn’t her we laughed uncontrollably.

Li’s family faces great hardships, but also experiences kindness and joy. Find three examples of each in this chapter.

- When Li Cunxin and a friend goes and risks their lifes and find half burnt coal.

- Li Cunxin and his younger brother anoy and fustrate their parents when their teacher comes to visit.

- When Li Cunxin's grandmother tells his niang that she broke the plates, insted of Li Cunxin getting in trouble.

Some of the hardships that the Li family go through are that Cunxin's niang had to sew their clothes, do the washing and also had to cook for them everyday. Another one is that if they didn't have enough coal for the winter they had to go steal some coal or just be cold. The third one is They didn't have a doctor and if they got sick they had to be tough and fight it. Some of the kindness and joy he experienced was hearing the stories and fables at night. Another one is chinese new years eve. The third one is they created their version of i-spy.

Three examples of hardships in Li’s family are
1. An example of hardship is that Li's family all sleep in the same bed at night.
2. Another of the examples of hardship are that Li's family does not have enough money to buy clothes so Niang must make them for her family.
3. Another of the examples of hardship are that they had to use half burnt coal that the found along the road to ignite the flames for cooking because of a shortage of coal.


Three examples of kindness and joy in Li’s family are
1. An example of joy for the family was there story night when there parents would tell them old stories and fables.
2. Another example of joy was when Li and his brothers would play there own version of ispy using newspapers on the wall.
3. Another example of joy is when Li and his brothers Cause chaos to stop there parents from hearing about there bad reports.

there were many hardships within the Li family some of them are... 1) the all have to sleep together, 2) Dia is working hard in a 2 job a day life, 3) they have to dry their food or salt it due to it cannot stay moldy and everything.
the joy ships
1) they played games all together like find the word in the Newspaper
2) listened to their favorite story frog in a well
3) they lobe to cause chaos to stop the parents hearing about a bad reports

Li's family are in big poverty and you can tell by his dia has wake up early and his Nia also have to go to work in the field to make for living. but Li's family has joy too. Li will have the chinese new year'eve with his family and on that night his Nia will get plenty of food to cool such as meat and some food that they won't normally get to eat. When Li try to impress his Nia he try to help his Nia cook but accidently drop the six dishes(VERY EXPENSIVE), so he told his grandma and his grandma solve the problem for him.

Some of the hardships li’s family has been though are li’s mother fainting and not being able to work for awhile and when she did she broke the basin, they don’t have enough money to replace it, all the clothes got dirty and she has to do them all over again, they have to use half burnt coal instead of new coal.

Some kind experiences they’ve had are playing games with friends, making chaos and their father telling them stories.

1. If they saw coal by the side of the road or in the garbage, they had to pick it up and take it home
2. Li's parents simply had no money to buy ready-made clothes and his Niang didn't have a sewing machine either.
3. Hard work and poverty had begun to wear down his Niang.

Hardship: 1.Li’s Niang is an extremely hard worker putting his job first to help her family, this means she can’t have a very good relationship with her 7 kids.
2. Li’s Niang got very sick and because they live in poverty they couldn’t do anything about it because they had never seen her sick before and didn’t know how to help.
3. Li’s parent also worked very hard to feed them, forcing them to wake up extremely early to make food and go too the fields and his Niang had to get up even earlier to make him breakfast.
Joy: 1. One of the things Li enjoyed was playing I-spy with his brothers but not as it is usually played, they played it with the newspaper, He thought of a word and the rest had to find it.
2. It always made Li happy seeing his Niang smile, he said when I saw a smile from my niang “my heart would blossom like a lotus flower”.
3.Another time Li experienced joy was when they tried to make his Niang a hot meal because she was sick and found out they had forgotten the main ingredients. They were laughing about that for ages.
Kindness: 1.when Li’s grandmother takes the blame for breaking the plates instead of Li.
2. Also when it was the family’ story night when there parents would tell them some old stories.
3. A time when kindness was shown was when Li’s mum fainted on the hill and they all rushed out to help her.

Some hardships that Li’s family face are that they have over 20 people have to live in a six room house and sleep in 2 beds together also they don’t have enough food to feed the hole family, Reiqing has to work very hard to get them food and make it mostly she gets dry yams. Another example they had to walk to the beach and look on the beach for fish when usually there is nothing there because everyone else got all the fish they also risk there life’s to get coal and food.

Some kindness and joy that Li’s family face are that Li Cunxin got to fly kites with his dad and he told him story’s like the frog in a well also when Li and his brothers would play Ispy with the newspapers on the walls. Another example was when Li and his brothers cause Chaos to stop there parents from hearing about there bad reports

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Li’s family faces great hardships, but also experiences kindness and joy. Find three examples of each in this chapter.

One of the hardships is that him niang had to get up before 5:30 to make his Dia breakfast so he had enough energy to make the money for the family. Li had allot of friends to he had allot of friends to play with so he wasn't bored all of the time. His niang fainted badly and apparently she was never the same.

The Li family face hard ship but they truly have kindness and joy.

Hardship
1.They were so poor they had to sometimes swallow their pride and ask for food.

2.Niang was very sick from working too much and she still had lots works to do, but the family couldn't help because she was never sick and they didn't have money to go see a doctor.

3.The Li family simply did not have enough money. Dia has to work all they and he could only earn 1 yuan which is too little for 9 people in the family.

Joy and kindness
1.When the teacher came to tell the reports, the three boys made chaos and had fun.

2.They were told about their favorite old fables and tales at night and enjoyed them.

3.Cunxin is chosen to go to Madame Mao's dance academy and niang and dia was very happy.

Hardships – 1. Both of parent Dia and niang had to wake up early in the morning which was before five-thirty. Dia had to wake up to go to the field to work and niang had to wake up to cook their family a breakfast.
2. niang also made clothes, quilts and blankets too and worked in the field as well, so she hardily had any time to play with children
3. It was very hard to get the half-burnt coal to light so niang experienced many terrible days because of that.

Kindness – 1. Niang and Dia had a good reputation of being kindnesss in the village so she was well liked and respected by people of all ages in the surrounding villages
2. Li meets a guy riding a bike home, and when Li asked for the help, a guy confirmed to his request easily and don't complain anything about it.
3. Aunt and other women were prepared for niang’s come back with cold wet towels over her forehead to recover her.

Joy – 1. Both of parent burst into laughter when dia forgets to put the most important ingredients in the dishes.
2. When Cunsang, the Li family’s teacher arrives at home and talk about the children’s life at school, Cunsang whispered children in their ears: ‘She let out a loud fart the other day and pretended it wasn’t her!’ we laughed uncontrollably.
3. They played a game called ‘I-spy’, which made the game into their own version. They always thought it sad that their parents didn’t join in because they couldn’t read.