Narration: Recounting Events

Summary Quiz for “The Alternate History of Susan Chung”

Question 12.73

1. Read “The Alternate History of Susan Chung” and summarize the selection below. Be sure to put the summary in your own words and to avoid using the sentence structure of the reading selection. Remember that your summary should restate the author’s main idea (or thesis) and that it should include only the author’s most important supporting ideas. When you have completed your summary, “submit” your work.

Here is an example summary of this reading selection:

Nicole Soojung Callahan, who is now pregnant and expecting a girl, describes the first stages in a search for her birth parents, Korean immigrants to the United States. What she finds out about them conflicts with her idealized view of their motives. Rather than giving her up out of financial need, Callahan finds that they might also have given her up because she a girl and might have special needs. However, once she learns that they named her at birth, she regains hope that they will want to meet her.

Your summary will differ from this one in the way it is written, but it should include roughly the same information.