When Soni returns home after a long absence, he finds his father newly willing to tell him personal stories about himself that he had never before shared.
For this prompt, your challenge is to spend at least half an hour talking to a family member. Ask questions. Listen. See if you can get them to tell you stories about their lives that you have never heard before (or new details about stories you have heard before).
You don't have to provide details about the stories you've heard (they may be somebody else's story to tell), but briefly describe the experience.
Only respond to this prompt after you have read part five, chapter two and all the preceding chapters.
I decided to sit down and talk with my grammy. Ever since I was young, she would tell me stories about her life. My favorite stories were from when she was in high school and was dating the quarterback of the football team. She always told me how she would run up to him after the games and he would put his helmet on her. Her perception of the relationship sounded like he was her true love. She made their relationship sound perfect, never saying a bad thing about him. This time we talked differently though. She had just heard him talk at a funeral, and said that he sounded so snotty. After saying this she recalled several times where his "rich" family and him were terrible to her. It was astonishing to me to hear her speak poorly of him. It made me realize how some situations are not as they seem. It reminds me of how in this story the workers are excited to find this amazing opportunity. Quickly, they start to realize that this "opportunity" wasn't the dream they had imagined it to be.
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