Why is the choice to serve leftover Chinese food significant in “Lunch”? How could the author have made a more culturally meaningful choice for her grandmother? Use the text to support your answer. Then reflect on a time when you realized you could have done something more meaningful for someone else.

 Prompt Response: The choice to serve leftover Chinese food in "Lunch' is significant because it represents the family leaving behind their culture in a way. For the first time, the author and her grandmother aren't sharing the traditional meal of sancocho, and ordering Chinese food almost feels like an insult to that tradition. In the text, it says "when she tasted it, she grimaced." This shows how the grandmother resents the Chinese food, because when she sees her granddaughter, it brings back memories of the old food traditions.  The author could've made a more culturally significant choice by choosing to make sancocho with the grandmother. A time when I realized I could've done something more meaningful for someone else was when I chose to go to school on my last day of middle school instead of my brothers high school gradutation. Either way, I knew I might regret my choice because it was the last time I would ever see the people I had gone to school with since kindergarten, but I also never got to see him walk across the stage and I regret that too. 

Summary: Today in class we read the short story Lunch.

Reflection: I got a better understanding of how food and culture are connected.