Monday, November 17, 2008

Balzac Questions pg 80-105

28. Yong Jing is a small town with daily basic needs like post offices and a open-air cinema where the two boys go watch movies and passes the story on to the villagers.

29. It was Four-Eyes' mother. The narrator acts as if he was Luo because Four-Eyes has a bad impression on the narrator and he thought his mom would be the same. The quote means that she believes at some point, the doctors and intellectuals will be useful again.

30. It was the Little Seamstress' idea and it is an interesting development because usually all those pop ups come from the two boys.

31. The buffalo was pushed off the side because people weren't allowed to kill working animals.

32. Four-Eyes is drinking the blood so that people in the village including the headman will believe that he's been reeducated. He has hidden books and he actually read them so he is still smart at the same time.

33. The function of the five sorceresses was to show that people were superstitious and didn't know better.

34. These books had a huge effect on him because it is a really precious object where people can't get in normal life. They believe that books have lives that can change people's life/personality.

35. If they get caught they will get in real big trouble but if they don't, it would satisfy their personal desire, and they will continue to be smarter. The outcome was that they didn't get turned in and the books were still kept secret.

36. Luo purpose that taking the books was for teaching Little Seamtress and "transform" her.

37. No, because they are stealing.

38. They important part is that he is changing his appearance himself. Underneath his "reeducated" self is the old Four-Eyes still desiring for books.

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