Sunday, November 23, 2008

Balzac Questions pg 158-184

50. The Little Seamstress told the narrator that she was pregnant. She, herself, wasn't ready to be a mother or wasn't aloud to be a mother at her age. Narrator helped her as much as possible by asking the top hospital doctor for help. The law doesn't allow the women to have an abortion or marriage before the age 25.

51. Narrator's parents could have just kicked him out of their house and let him live by him self.
There is a law of not allowing women to have any abortion or marriage before turing 25 years old.

52. The preacher is a very wise man so the narrator trusted him that he could help the Little Stream Stress. His live along with the Bible, so he wanted to stay in his own thoughts.

53. The narrator chose to give a book to the doctor if he was going to help. First the doctor didn't believe about the book, but the smart narrator had some part of the book on his jacket which made the doctor believe him.

54. The Little Seam Stress changed her style. Her shoes, clothes, everything changed. From a village mountain girl to a young lady.

55. Luo and the narrator felt betrayed by the Little Seamstress because she just left without saying anything to them, when they thought they were pretty close friends/relationships. Narrator had some connection with her while Luo was gone, but she left so he's upset with this too.

56. I think it means that the Little Seamstress's strength is to have a good talents with looks. Her reeducation by the boy was from reading her books which changed her from the moutain village girl to a high fashion stylish girl .

57. The boys finally believed that books were the one that led them into troubles they got. Even the Little Seamstress got adicted to books with them. Without books, they might have had more peaceful life.

58. No, the reeducation for them was a backfire. It ended up having both of them believe more into the books rather than forgetting about it. Meating the Little Seamstress made it worse too, they kept on reading bookis to her which let them not forget about it. The ideas changed but not towards the goals of Cultural Revolution.

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