A Thousand Pieces Of Annotated Bibliography

In “A Thousand Pieces of Gold” Polly had many homes. First she lived in China with her family. Her family is poor so she fears that she is going to lose her home. When she gets sold she loses her home and her family. She wants to escape from the bandits and run back home, but she can’t escape. Then she get’s bought and sent to the United States. She still thinks her home is back in China and she plans to gather gold and use it to buy her way back there. She meets Jim, who promise’s to free her, but he dies and that ends her hope of going back to China. The person who buys her was Hong King, and Polly lives in the back room of his saloon. After Charlie frees Polly, they live together and she realize her home
Lalu gets caught by the bandit leader when she runs out of her hiding place to get a basket of potatoes. The bandit leader is Chen, her father’s old laborer. Lalu’s father tries to be brave and stand up for Lalu, but Chen threatens to kill his whole family because he knows all the hiding places. Lalu’s father begs to make him let her go, but Chen offers to pay for her. Lalu tries to persuade him to let her go, but he refuse. Then Chen calls Zhuo to bring some seeds and throw them in front of Lalu’s father. “Lalu stared at her father, willing him not to pick them up. He reached out, hesitated, then looked up at Lalu, his eyes pleading for understanding. She twisted her face away, a sob strangling in her throat. Behind her, she heard him snatch the bag and scoop up the spilled seed.”(pg. 50) Her father has to decide between his daughter and the survival of the rest of the family. It shows how she is leaving her home. Lalu is happy with her family, but her father sells her and she loses it. She is thrown out of the house like she’s not family. She loses her home for two bags of seeds. She can’t come back to the family if she really wanted too. Now that she is sold she can’t go back to her family, because she doesn’t belong to them