FCC 8- Simmone Johnson

In Chapter Eight of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, by Jennifer 8. Lee has a very analytical nonetheless informational tone that leads you through a journey of brightly used words to make her statements about “The Golden Venture: Restaurant Workers to Go.” This analytical tone is shown throughout the whole chapter. Jennifer focuses on how the Golden Venture immigrants made their way over to the United States. She talks about how they all were involved in the same things. This section gets very informational because she mentions “about 90 percent of the Golden Venture survivors were involved in the Chinese -restaurant business…a lucky few owned their own restaurants.”(110) this gives the reader more insight on how most of the Chinese culture are only involved with certain businesses.
 
As the chapter continues about the Golden venture immigrants and how they lend thousands of dollars to friends, family, neighbors, etc.  Their system of lending is different “…The word for “lend,” jie, is the same as the word borrow…a person who borrows one day may lend on another.”(121) this helps me to understand that the Chinese are very helpful and that if someone “borrows” money from you it’s not a huge deal for them to pay you back.

These immigrants are still being fully analyzed by Jennifer, as she is giving the background story of the trip they had to take. There was an interesting section about the Golden Venture “…food, water, light, and space were all scarce…men started relieving themselves off the deck of the boat.” (129) I couldn’t believe that these immigrants would go through so much just to get to the United States.

This informative yet analytical tone strengthens this chapter because it’s giving information about the Chinese culture of traveling to America to start their own businesses. This is the most direct way to present your thoughts to the reader with information that you can prove, and still keep your main focus without losing it.