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The Fish Cheeks article is missing information about plot, imagery, point of view and other important topics that are in the story. I am planning to edit this article along with the group that I was assigned to improve the story and elaborate on these topics.

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This article discusses the different rhetorical devices that Amy Tan uses in Fish Cheeks. It goes over diction, imagery, tone, and appeals. It goes over what spots in the story that Tan uses each of these devices and how it is significant to the reader and what it can cause them to think. It mentions the descriptions of the foods and how the main character saw these foods. Each of these devices that are explained help the reader better understand the story. These devices are added to help shape the story and give incite to the reader so the can feel how the main character feels. The author reveals that she is questioning the culture that she grew up with and whether or not she should continue to keep it with her as she grows up.

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As the plot in "Fish Cheeks" progresses, new characters and problems arise that the main Character, Amy, Struggles to handle. During the exposition, you learn that the main character is a girl and that she has a crush on the minister's son, Robert. At this point in the story her name is not yet mentioned. Her parents invite his family over for dinner and she becomes upset when she leans the news because she is afraid of what his white American family will think of their Chinese Christmas. When the action of the story starts to rise and her mother begins to prepare for the dinner, Amy's worries continue to grow and all of the usual foods that her family makes become foreign as the kitchen is filled "with appalling mounds of raw food"(1).

When the story reaches its climax, both of the families are eating dinner and Amy has lost all hope. Her family acts different and doesn't show the same manners as Roberts family. Her father pulls the tender fish cheek from the fish and offers it to Amy because it is her favorite and this caused her to want to vanish from the dinner. As the Christmas dinner goes on she feels more ashamed and doesn't know what to do. Once the night is over she is in silence and not sure what to even say. It is not until later that she realizes how special that meal was for her. She resolves all the hard feelings when she realizes that all the foods that were made for that meal were her favorite and she should have enjoyed the meal instead of worrying so much about the guests.

As the plot in the story moves on it reveals how Amy feels worse and worse about the dinner. She is super embarrassed of how different she is compared to her crush and his family. The plot allows the reader see how terrible Amy feels and that the longer the story goes on the more Amy wants to just leave the dinner and forget that all of it happened. When Tan ends the story she shows how little that dinner actually meant to her later in life. The internal conflict that she had went away and the story ends with her finding peace about the situation.