Which sentence from “fish cheeks” is meant to teach readers what amy tan's family is like? when i found out that my parents had invited the minister’s family over for christmas eve dinner, i cried. what would he think of our noisy chinese relatives who lacked proper american manners? on christmas eve i saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. and then they arrived—the minister’s family and all my relatives in a clamor of doorbells and rumpled christmas packages.