1st post

Wild Ginger is definitely a pager turner! Maple, the narrator, has made friends with the new girl in the class, Wild Ginger. The bully of the class, Hot Pepper, criticized WG because she had light eyes and different shaped eyes because both of her parents were not oriental. Hot Pepper bullied Maple so much (saying that she was just followin what Mao would want her to do) that WG stepped in and wasnt afraid of her at all and HP finally backed off. Soon I found that WG dislikes her mother very much and criticized her deceased father who was French. Because her mother was so much in love with him, she is sort of discusted by what WG is saying. WG doesn't quite show her anger that she is obviously building up inside. Her mother is strugging to deal with her and commits suicide. WG is very distrought by this and when Maple tries to help her she refuses it and hurts herself by stabbing her hand with a pencil and threated to hurt Maple too. Being an orphan, she now has to fend for herself. So, she goes to the market in the earliest hours of the day selling fish, snails, scrappings for little to nothing. Maple is very empathetic towards her and tries to help her out.