# Test 3-Cornell Notes: Paper Menagerie

Ken Liu

Assumed meaning: a story involving a paper mirage or folding paper

New assumed meaning: story about chinese fighting?

Cues

> Notes
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> Chinese family
> fold paper - blow air make paper tiger
> mom likes oragami
> fold paper tiger - laohu - 
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> mom got picked from catalouge of women by dad
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> didnt speak english, flown from HK
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> mom probably knows magic, can blow air into oragami to make them come alive
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> not looked upon postiviely by neighbors
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> laohu gets ripped
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> makes her not want to be chinese
> think mom doenst belong
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> family think mom needs to fit in
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> he ashamed of mom
> Put paper animals in shoebox
> mom stopped speaking and tried to “be american”
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> mom has cancer
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> she doenst even care that mom is hospitalized, focused on school
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> mom said “if i die, open shoebox once in while”
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> mom died when she on flight to california
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> year later, move into apartment with roomate
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> used paper animals as deco in house
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> on qinming, laohu come alive again and unfold, show message
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> mom from hebei

![Image](https://upload.cafenono.com/image/slashpageHome/20240227/202526_LJtX4EtZ5i5Kdvbr48?q=75&s=1280x180&t=outside&f=webp)

When she was kid, all family memebers kill bc uncle was in HK

smuggled to HK and used as servant, one day laday say owner will eventually rape you, put you in catalouge for white men

son not talk to her make mom incredibly sad

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