Imitation Exercise 2 pg.372

For this post I chose a passage from The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

Believing this, he is still frightened. That is due to the fact that he cannot change. I can feel it. He adjusts things to his beliefs. If a thing is dark he believes it is light. If a thing is light he believes it is dark. He argues with everything that is said to him. He makes everyone feel as if they are the foolish ones. Then they must argue their point to know what to believe.

Anyway, once that confrontation ended, he was furious and could only lay in his chair going over that man's haunting comments. He reminded himself that that man would always be the one to make such callous comments. He was the one that didn't understand anything. Then, once he no longer wished to recall those comments, he searched for another topic to contradict. He went to a bookcase and drew out a book he bought at a second hand store, a secondhand book bought at a secondhand store.