In the
beginning, Lovey and her best friend, Jerry, are watching the
Shirley Temple movie before they go to church. They never
get to see the end because they have to go and leave. They
make up the endings and cry in the middle of the pastor's
sermon. On Lovey's birthday, Jerry would make her a gift
certificate from the toy store for $500. Lovey is very
embarrassed to be speaking pidgin English. She doesn't tell
anyone, not even Jerry, how she is ashamed of how she
talks, looks, or even where she lives. Lovey secretly wants
to be haole, but she knows that she can't. Everyone in her
class has a very hard time speaking proper English, and the
teacher yells at them for not being able too. Lovey has a
hard time in math class and gets teased for being Japanese.
It's as if the rest of the students expect her to be smart just
because she is Japanese. Lovey is supposed to write her
own obituary for her English class. It gets her thinking about......
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