Amy Tan's Coming For Dinner

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While Amy Tan grabbed the audience with both her title and first line, she never gave us more information about Robert, the minister’s son, with whom she stated in her first line that she fell in love with. Her essay included a great amount of detail when it came to her mother’s preparation of dinner, but if the story was supposed to be about his family coming for dinner, there should have been a few more details about it. She concluded her story, talking about her mother wanting her to be happy with who she is and that is when I realized the attention she paid to the dinner was the focus of the story, more so than Robert. I think the lesson that I learned is that yes, you can grab the audience with one or two sentences, but the main story

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