Adventures of Jang Jang: Jang Jang Goes to Mexico

By Diane M Frank

Based on the true story of an action figure, a young boy trapped in a man’s body, who illustrates humorously how compulsive behavior leads to a set of chain reactions. Jang Jang’s character learns, like any young man, the hard way. He is engrossed in sports, fishing, dragons and pretty girls. And somehow, Jang Jang learns circumstant

• Language: English
• Publisher: i.m.Press
• Release date: Jan 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9780980102567

Diane M Frank

Diane Frank, as a lexicographer, has been writing dictionaries since 1996. Her first work, "Gabby's Wordspeller & Phonetic Dictionary" was the first phonetic dictionary ever written. Her intent was to help all those challenged with spelling the English language by designing a bridge between the 'sound of a word' and a standard dictionary. In the late 90's, and even up to today, there still hasn't been a resource tool as helpful to allow a word misspelled to be located in a dictionary as quickly as a Word Speller. Creating this dictionary which allows you to spell a word 'by the way it sounds' (phonetically) to find the correctly spelled word was a challenge. How many ways can you misspell a word? She worked, modified, created and still continues to this day to produce a dictionary that is also a resource tool. Challenged herself, with knowing when to drop the 'y' in a word and how to spell it with suffixes attached led her to research for years all the conceivable suffix endings for over 75,000 words. No small task given that many book and online dictionaries do not provide this information for every root word. As well, they do not provide every conceivable prefix available for each base word either. She evolved the dictionary to allow a user to be able to learn all there is to know on how to spell root words with their prefixes and suffixes added. As well, for those challenged with spelling, there may be up to six homophones for any given word. Homophones are words that sound like another word. She provides, in her dictionaries, all conceivable homophones for each root word. Examples of this are; carat, caret, carrot, karat. An example would be; their, they're, there or immigrant, emigrant, which are the most common confusable words. Another challenge for spellers new to the English language are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. Often referred to as 'confusable words'. She has researched for years (and continues to this day) to make certain that all confusable words are allowed for. Examples would be; read, fall, spring, etc.

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Chapter 1

Ethan Sends Jang Jang Away

Hi, my name is Jang Jang. I am handsome, strong and macho. I am here with my best friend Ethan. I love him, except when he leaves me out in the rain for two days.

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We have lots of fun together, him and I. He even shares me with his friends!

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One day while we are playing on the playground Ethan announced, Here Grandma, take Jang Jang with you to Mexico. I will miss him but he looks like he needs to take a vacation from this cold, rainy weather. He needs to go sit in the sun and relax with you for awhile.

What? No, no! I said to myself. Why is Ethan handing me over to his Grandma? What? Nooooo, where am I going? Then it was dark. The Grandma put me into a bag so I took a long nap. Next thing I know, Ethan is gone and I am at an airport. The Grandma bought me an airline ticket, then took me to the check-in point. It was explained by the authorities that all items must pass along the conveyor belt into the x-ray machine.

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Fortunately, I, Jang Jang, went undetected by the authorities. They were looking for bombs or something and did not even notice me.

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Once onboard, I climbed up on one of the seats and spoke out loud. Here I am on my first long car ride going to a faraway place called Mexico!

Oh Jang Jang . . . reminded the airline stewardess, we are not driving to Mexico on this plane, we are flying up into the air to get to Mexico. It is over 3,500 miles away and would take over 7 days if we were to drive there!

I sprang to the window. I looked out at the dark, cold, rainy morning on the airport tarmac and someone said I had a quiver in my voice when I asked, What? We are going up into the air all day? The stewardess replied, Yes, Jang Jang.

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I quietly muttered to