Eating Vinegar by Rita Hooks

1. Setting

1.1. Place: Western China

1.2. Time: Liberation Period

1.3. Weather Conditions: Snowy

1.4. Mood or atmosphere: Strange/awkward

1.5. Social Conditions: Both people have to be five feet appart

2. Charater

2.1. Protagonists: Sadie and Heng

2.2. Antagonist: Heng Parents

3. Conflit

3.1. External struggle: Sadie have a hard time getting along with Ma

4. Plot

4.1. introduction: Sadie is living with her partern In Western China.

4.2. initiating accident: Sadie is trying to get along with Ma.

4.3. Rising action: Sadie is not living in USA anymore.

4.4. Clímax: When Sadie found Xia knocking on the door full of tears.

4.5. Falling Action: when Xia was caugth after talking with Sadie

4.6. Denoument: He went to his wife room and he said Thank You

5. Theme

5.1. Intolerance and the cultural clash

6. Point of View

6.1. The story is told in third person because the writter uses he,she and they, etc

6.2. The story is told in third person because the writter uses he,she and they, etc