John-Jin by Rose Tremain

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John-Jin by Rose Tremain is a short story with two main characters. We have John-Jin himself, who was Chinese and born with a disease that held back his growth. He would only grow in minute little bursts. When John-Jin became older his adopted parents took him to Manchester to see a specialist who then started him on treatments of growth hormone shots. Things started to look up but after ten years when John-Jin was 12, the shots took a bad affect on him and he developed Creutzfeldt and Jacob disease. This disease is more commonly known as Mad-Cow disease.

As for the narrator of the story, her name is Susan. She was 10 years old when John-Jin came into her family. She wanted to become a great Spanish dancer. She viewed John-Jin as beautiful as a flower. She goes into great detail as to ...

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