"Five months ago, after a crab dinner celebrating Chinese New Year, my mother gave me my "life's importance," a jade pendant on a gold chain."
I feel like this chapter helped Jing-Mei get over her fears of not thinking she's important or special. She's always been behind Waverly's shadow and I feel like she is intimidated by Waverly. But in this chapter, she has a talk with her mother and it really helps her discover that she is important and special.
The literary term I chose for this chapter is SYMBOL (an object that is used to represent something else). The symbol in this chapter is the jade necklace that is given to Jing-Mei by her mother after the Chinese New Year dinner. I think everyone has had a feeling before that they are unimportant or not as special as they could be. These feelings are natural, but I think it just takes time for people to figure out who they should be and how they are significant in their own way.
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