Rules of the game+ the voices from the wall

I found that both stories, rules of the game and the voices from the wall, both told stories of an entirely different race. Generations pass and change throughout time, and as in the book, people start to question their heritage. The girl in the first story adapts herself to her surroundings and situation by learning how to play chess and being good at it, this in turn makes her and her mother disagree and bicker about the subject. Her mother thinks it’s a useless game, while she thinks of it as her passion and uses all her spare time to get better at it. In my opinion, she is kind of bratty and selfish, her mother has worked so hard to give her what she has, and in turn, she is an annoying ungrateful little kid. In the next story, the main character is a mix of Chinese and Irish, I think. Like most mixed kids, she goes through some pretty rough times trying to find her real identity and fixates her emotions into the sounds and conversations that she hears coming through her bedroom wall. During this time, her mother, who was pregnant, loses the baby and stats to go crazy, her dad doesn’t say much either. A sad and lonely Leiina then starts paying even more attention to the things that go in in the apartment next door because her life is so full of sadness.