Rules of the Game

By: Amy Tan

Setting

• The book is based in San Francisco’s China Town, Waverly Place

Chess

• Her brother got the first chess board from their Church’s Christmas.

• The set was missing some pieces so they used some Lifesavers for the spare parts.

• After she started to beat her brothers she went to a playground at the end of the alley and started to get better while she played against Lau Po.

• She was 429 points away from becoming a chess master.

Family

• Wavely Jong or “MeiMei” means little sister• She has a mom (her name is not said)• She has two brothers, Winston and Vincent

Why did she stop?

• She stopped playing chess because her mother would walk around saying “This is my daughter the chess champion she is the best” and Wavely got really mad so she took off and ran away from her mother. Then her mother made a coment “We not concerning this girl, This girl not have concerning for us.”