Vocabulary:
prudent (adj.) - (syn) careful (ant) careless
pitiless (adj.) -(syn) ruthless (ant) merciful
capricious (adj.) - (syn) freakish (ant) predictable
precarious (adj.) - (syn) unstable (ant)easy
anthracite (n.)- (syn) coal (ant)
livid (adj.)- (syn) ashy (ant) colorful
poultice (n.) - (syn) cataplasm (ant) wrappings
10. The Chinese Seamstress has a long pigtail that goes over her shoulder, and her eyes are very attractive and beautiful. Her feet are in good shape. Her ankles are wrapped with white socks.
11. The Chinese Seamstress hasn't been educated, she can't read or write, and Luo wants someone that is inteligent and smart like him and his family's background. He needs someone that has a standard level of education.
12. They weren't really learning anything. So I guess it was difficult. People just had to live everyday and forget their pasts.
13. The "passionate abandon". He was crying for his pasts, how he had a good time with the little seamstress.
14. The letter, the different treatment, and inviting over to her place with girls. The letter made a path for him, the treatments were like medicine, and inviting was to make him feel better, she tried lots to help him out.
15. People can do anything to get their wish if you have a sincere heart. This girl couldn't accomplish what she wanted because she didn't have that sincere heart.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Questions & Grammar and Usage Practice and Application to Zhang Yimou's To Live
QUESTIONS
1. Why do yo think that the name of the movie is To Live?
They had lots of conflict during their life such as parents breaking up, Fugui coming back from war, parents getting back together, childrens dying before parents...and so To Live they had go through all these situations.
2. How does the main character, Fugui, represent life in China during this time period?
He works as a puppet show background musick/voice. He went to the war do defend China.
3. How specifically does Fugui's wife, Jiaz, adapt to the changing times?
They broke up in the beginning but their relationship got together again after war, and she became strong and had confident to fight back her husband.
4. In what ways did the loss of his house and fortunes, ironically, becomes the best thing that ever happened to Fugui and his family?
Loss of the son really hurt. But the daughter, when she died she left them a life, her son, so that made them cheer up alittle. The daughters husband stayed in contact with her Fugui and his wife and helped each other with life.
5. What do you think of Mr. Niu and what do you suppose happened to him near the end?
From what I saw on movie, his wife crying in the room by her self, I think Mr. Niu and his wife devorced after. Maybe they took all their money because he got moved down a place.
6. How do the two children become victimes of the political climate? Give specific examples.
The son was sleeping during school and then this car crashed into the school wall which fell on him. The daughter, when she just had a birth, she had a problem but the hospital only had nurse student who didn't know what to do and all the old doctors were locked at this other place because they were revolutionary.
7. The communist Revolution is widely seen to have been succesful in raising living conditions for millions of Chinese peasants. Give some positive example from the movie of improvements in living conditions and good results from the change in political system.
The people had the public kitchens and tables where everyone can eat. Public water where Fugui's wife work at, they give water to everyone like when they watch the puppet shows.
8. What is the final positive outcome for this one family? Explain
Marrying Wan Erxi. Having one soldier in the house protects all the family from military suspicions so no one would get kicked out of this their home. Second is the grand son that daughter left for them. That might have been the reason to have all the family members stay together.
9. To Live was banned in China, and the director, Zhang Yimou, and the leading actress Gong Li were barred from filmmaking for two years. What specifically do you think that the Chinese government objected to? Give at least two or three examples.
1. Why do yo think that the name of the movie is To Live?
They had lots of conflict during their life such as parents breaking up, Fugui coming back from war, parents getting back together, childrens dying before parents...and so To Live they had go through all these situations.
2. How does the main character, Fugui, represent life in China during this time period?
He works as a puppet show background musick/voice. He went to the war do defend China.
3. How specifically does Fugui's wife, Jiaz, adapt to the changing times?
They broke up in the beginning but their relationship got together again after war, and she became strong and had confident to fight back her husband.
4. In what ways did the loss of his house and fortunes, ironically, becomes the best thing that ever happened to Fugui and his family?
Loss of the son really hurt. But the daughter, when she died she left them a life, her son, so that made them cheer up alittle. The daughters husband stayed in contact with her Fugui and his wife and helped each other with life.
5. What do you think of Mr. Niu and what do you suppose happened to him near the end?
From what I saw on movie, his wife crying in the room by her self, I think Mr. Niu and his wife devorced after. Maybe they took all their money because he got moved down a place.
6. How do the two children become victimes of the political climate? Give specific examples.
The son was sleeping during school and then this car crashed into the school wall which fell on him. The daughter, when she just had a birth, she had a problem but the hospital only had nurse student who didn't know what to do and all the old doctors were locked at this other place because they were revolutionary.
7. The communist Revolution is widely seen to have been succesful in raising living conditions for millions of Chinese peasants. Give some positive example from the movie of improvements in living conditions and good results from the change in political system.
The people had the public kitchens and tables where everyone can eat. Public water where Fugui's wife work at, they give water to everyone like when they watch the puppet shows.
8. What is the final positive outcome for this one family? Explain
Marrying Wan Erxi. Having one soldier in the house protects all the family from military suspicions so no one would get kicked out of this their home. Second is the grand son that daughter left for them. That might have been the reason to have all the family members stay together.
9. To Live was banned in China, and the director, Zhang Yimou, and the leading actress Gong Li were barred from filmmaking for two years. What specifically do you think that the Chinese government objected to? Give at least two or three examples.
It gave the details of the revolution at the time. How Mao's decision was wrong. In the hospital they didn't have any doctors that had been educated, only those nurse students. Mao's decision of banning the educated people ended up causing some problems. Another example is when they arrested/killed the guy that beaten Fugui up before. They just took the top score guy and killed him.
10. Write your own movie review for this film. ( your rating, how many stars, on a scale of 1 to 5? Who would enjoy it?) A 5 to 10 sentence response would suffice. Be sure to refer to a remarkable scene to capture your reader's interest in the movie.I would give 4/5 stars to this movie. Overall this movie showed some family developments and the revolutions, which teached us alot of what was happening during this time. It had so many emotional moments that some tears came out of my eyes (just a little) like when the son died, the daughter one was...little scary. The part I didn't get was the relationship with those gambling people, and why this man tried to kill Fugui in the beginning. Other than that, it was an awesome movie. I think people that likes Asian histories would enjoy watchin this movie, like revolutions.
GRAMMAR AND USAGE PRACTICE AND APPLICATION TO ZHANG YIMOU'S TO LIVE
1. Participle
Tears were dropping from his eyes when his wife and his kid left him alone.
2. Absolute
All those crowded people stared at Fugui's blame on Youqing.
3. Adjectives
You can see it covered with blanket, underneath it was Youqing, bloody and sorrowful.
4.Action
After the grand son's birth, the daughter breathes so weirdly and blood dropps from everywhere, nurse students rushes through the hospital but never gets a proper docter.
5. Appositive
Youqing and Fugui's wife's vineger spice pot, not only for cooking, better for a weapon.
6. Methods for Painting Characters
2. "Youqing! wake up! Youqing! You need to go to school!"
6. The daughter had really good attitude towards everyone, who I bet wanted to fight back the guys that teased her but she stayed just like her and was even able to get a husband even with out a voice.
Balzac Questions: pg. 3-20
Vocabulary:
risible (adj.) - deserving to be laughed at rather than taken seriously (syn) ridiculous (ant) humorless
surreptitious (adj.) -done secretly or quickly, in the hope that other people will not notice (syn) furtive (ant) unconcealed
sonata (n.) - a piece of music for one instrument or for one instrument and a piano, usually dived intro three or four parts
audacity (n.) - brave but rude or shocking behaviour (syn) nerve
reactionary (n.)- a person who is opposed to political or social change
vertiginous (adj.)- causing a feeling of dizziness and fear (syn) woozy (ant) well
insidious (adj.) - spreading gradually or without being noticed, but causing serious harm (syn) dangerous (ant) unseductive
Questions...
1. The village headman assumed the violin is just a toy. Lou tried to fool the man by saying this music instrument can play a sonata called "Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao". This made the conflict between the boys and the village is the boys are educated and allowed to do something the villagers are not to do.
2. The key players during the Cultural Revolution are Chairman Mao, and the young intellectuals who are boys and girls who had graduated from high school. The "young intellectuals are sent to countryside to be “re-educated”. The main purpose is probably Mao hated having the "intellectuals" thinking differently from his ideas.
3. Lou and the narrator aren’t really educated. They both went to school but never took an advanced level of education.
4. Lou didn’t want others to feel sorry for his father because he was just admitting his faults and he truly believed no one should be sorry by such an act.
5. The name of the mountain is “the Phoenix of the Sky”was the signify its high altitude; only a great magical bird like a phoenix can fly all the way up to it’s peak.
6. The source comes from cooper. The economy status of this region must be at a good quality because it has a natural resources.
7. Changing the time on their clock, made their time very wise. They learned to be very clever and have other ways to deal with common things.
8. Commonly the reeducation period usually was 2 years. But the fact that their parents were very educated doctors, it made them have a chance of 3 in 1000 to be able to go home.
9. Lou’s stories allowed the people to be entertained and let the time to pass by quickly. This might have insulted the villagers which might have let them hate the boys.
risible (adj.) - deserving to be laughed at rather than taken seriously (syn) ridiculous (ant) humorless
surreptitious (adj.) -done secretly or quickly, in the hope that other people will not notice (syn) furtive (ant) unconcealed
sonata (n.) - a piece of music for one instrument or for one instrument and a piano, usually dived intro three or four parts
audacity (n.) - brave but rude or shocking behaviour (syn) nerve
reactionary (n.)- a person who is opposed to political or social change
vertiginous (adj.)- causing a feeling of dizziness and fear (syn) woozy (ant) well
insidious (adj.) - spreading gradually or without being noticed, but causing serious harm (syn) dangerous (ant) unseductive
Questions...
1. The village headman assumed the violin is just a toy. Lou tried to fool the man by saying this music instrument can play a sonata called "Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao". This made the conflict between the boys and the village is the boys are educated and allowed to do something the villagers are not to do.
2. The key players during the Cultural Revolution are Chairman Mao, and the young intellectuals who are boys and girls who had graduated from high school. The "young intellectuals are sent to countryside to be “re-educated”. The main purpose is probably Mao hated having the "intellectuals" thinking differently from his ideas.
3. Lou and the narrator aren’t really educated. They both went to school but never took an advanced level of education.
4. Lou didn’t want others to feel sorry for his father because he was just admitting his faults and he truly believed no one should be sorry by such an act.
5. The name of the mountain is “the Phoenix of the Sky”was the signify its high altitude; only a great magical bird like a phoenix can fly all the way up to it’s peak.
6. The source comes from cooper. The economy status of this region must be at a good quality because it has a natural resources.
7. Changing the time on their clock, made their time very wise. They learned to be very clever and have other ways to deal with common things.
8. Commonly the reeducation period usually was 2 years. But the fact that their parents were very educated doctors, it made them have a chance of 3 in 1000 to be able to go home.
9. Lou’s stories allowed the people to be entertained and let the time to pass by quickly. This might have insulted the villagers which might have let them hate the boys.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Ching
In The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Ching has been going through some tough memories. His died from hunger and after when she died he gave his daughter to a soldier because he didn’t want to see anymore of those hungers to death. He wished, “If I had a little seed I would plant once more, but no seed have I.” (151)
The Character Ching in The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck moved into Wang Lung’s land, and starts helping his land and he was actually “glad to do it” (168).
Ching in The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is paid really well from Wang Lung: “he set Ching to be his steward over the men and over the land and he paid him well, two silver pieces a month besides his food.” (171)
The Character Ching in The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck moved into Wang Lung’s land, and starts helping his land and he was actually “glad to do it” (168).
Ching in The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is paid really well from Wang Lung: “he set Ching to be his steward over the men and over the land and he paid him well, two silver pieces a month besides his food.” (171)
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