Answer:
Theme:
- by drawing upon an older person's experiences, you gain ideas, information and skills that can shape your future
-generations can bond and strengthen their love through understanding
-older and younger people can strengthen their relationships through love and understanding
Conflict:
-Man vs. Man - Stacy vs. Grandmother
-Stacy must give up ballet because the family needs money for Grandmother to come to San Francisco from Hong Kong (Hong Kong was given back from British control to the Chinese government of communism)
-Stacy then needed to give up her bedroom with no thanks from Grandmother
-Stacy tries to become friends with grandmother but -Grandmother gets angry when she sees the pink silk ribbons and the callouses on Stacy's feet
-Stacy misunderstands her grandmother as her grandmother misunderstands the pink silk ribbons
Characters:
Stacy
11 year old girl who is half Chinese and half Causacian
loves to dance ballet and is very good
gives up a lot for grandmother (ballet lessons with Madame Oblomov, her bedroom and even her ballet shoes and ribbons, play quietly and watch Westerns)
Grandmother
"Paw-paw" - mother's mother
from Hong Kong; very proper, formal, uptight, strict and strong
had her feet bound from age 5; mangled her toes and caused her to wobble and need a cane
did not want her granddaughter to go through the same pain and suffering (cares for Stacy)
Ian
younger brother to Stacy who is spoiled by grandmother because "in China boys are everything"
looks like his mother and grandmother
Learns to speak some Chinese
Mother
very obedient toward her mother
does whatever her mother wants to make her happy and is very apologetic to her mother