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.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Balzac Questions p 61-79
22. Four-Eyes' mother set a forth for him to write an article of a journal in the city. He fails the task because he couldn't accomplish the task. He got attacked my lice instead of getting old man sing for him.
23. The boys appeared as an army leader of the Mao Communist party. They wore very formal navy blue jacket with a dark gray collar made by the Little Seamstress, representing an army’s officer. The old miller showed a lot more respect to them than when Four-Eye visited and did as they asked, to sing his mountain folk songs to them.
24. They gathered on the bed and had some drink of liquor and "jade dumplings" with the old man.
25. She is asking for a mountain folklore with a mix of romantic realism. The old miller sang to the boys a song complaining about the bugs, which might just be a mountain tale about the bugs on there.
26. They are searching for these forbidden because they are really interested in it. They want to learn something beyond they are restricted and continue to search for literature s that are amazing like the Balzac story.
27. Four-Eyes simply took the old miller’s and the boys’ work as jokes and randomly changing it from it’s original meaning. He wouldn't accept the work the two boys did for him, he wouldn’t take it and appreciate it.
23. The boys appeared as an army leader of the Mao Communist party. They wore very formal navy blue jacket with a dark gray collar made by the Little Seamstress, representing an army’s officer. The old miller showed a lot more respect to them than when Four-Eye visited and did as they asked, to sing his mountain folk songs to them.
24. They gathered on the bed and had some drink of liquor and "jade dumplings" with the old man.
25. She is asking for a mountain folklore with a mix of romantic realism. The old miller sang to the boys a song complaining about the bugs, which might just be a mountain tale about the bugs on there.
26. They are searching for these forbidden because they are really interested in it. They want to learn something beyond they are restricted and continue to search for literature s that are amazing like the Balzac story.
27. Four-Eyes simply took the old miller’s and the boys’ work as jokes and randomly changing it from it’s original meaning. He wouldn't accept the work the two boys did for him, he wouldn’t take it and appreciate it.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Balzac Questions p 45-61
Vocabulary:
sadistic (adj): syn: vicious ant: merciful
vigilance (n): syn: alertness ant: carelessness
substantiate (v): syn: affirm ant: disprove
garish (adj): syn: tawdry ant: tasteful
myopia (n): syn: nearsighted ant: farsighted
belligerent (adj): syn: aggressive ant: kind
redolent (adj): syn: scented ant: unscented
somnambulates (v): syn: sleepwalking ant: awake
16. Four-Eyes is a friend of Luo and the narrator. He's been living in the lower on the slopes of the Phoenix mountain, his background is "highly educated". His personality is bery insane.
17. All the Western Literature in China got banned in China durin the Cultural Revolution. It was for to restrain the people from knowing other ideas and informations. China back then was really strict unlike Europe. By the time it was unbanned, no more Western Literature were left in China.
18. Breaking of Four-Eyes' glasses nearly caused Four-Eyes to become blinded. It was a chance for the two boys to help him, to get their books back from him as a return.
19.The pang of jealousy through the narrator’s body was caused from me him wanting the little seamstress and to her to have same feeling as him. Both equal, like the book Balzac story.
20. The narrator copied passages from the book onto his sheepskin coat. He hopes that it will lead him to a place where he has never been before. It connects to how the girl wanted to meet her mother, and in modern day, it's narrator seeing the new world.
21. They had a sex under a gingko tree. This is going to be a serious problem for the Little Seamstress, because her father will never accept it. It can be really dangerous to how the story meant for the readers.
sadistic (adj): syn: vicious ant: merciful
vigilance (n): syn: alertness ant: carelessness
substantiate (v): syn: affirm ant: disprove
garish (adj): syn: tawdry ant: tasteful
myopia (n): syn: nearsighted ant: farsighted
belligerent (adj): syn: aggressive ant: kind
redolent (adj): syn: scented ant: unscented
somnambulates (v): syn: sleepwalking ant: awake
16. Four-Eyes is a friend of Luo and the narrator. He's been living in the lower on the slopes of the Phoenix mountain, his background is "highly educated". His personality is bery insane.
17. All the Western Literature in China got banned in China durin the Cultural Revolution. It was for to restrain the people from knowing other ideas and informations. China back then was really strict unlike Europe. By the time it was unbanned, no more Western Literature were left in China.
18. Breaking of Four-Eyes' glasses nearly caused Four-Eyes to become blinded. It was a chance for the two boys to help him, to get their books back from him as a return.
19.The pang of jealousy through the narrator’s body was caused from me him wanting the little seamstress and to her to have same feeling as him. Both equal, like the book Balzac story.
20. The narrator copied passages from the book onto his sheepskin coat. He hopes that it will lead him to a place where he has never been before. It connects to how the girl wanted to meet her mother, and in modern day, it's narrator seeing the new world.
21. They had a sex under a gingko tree. This is going to be a serious problem for the Little Seamstress, because her father will never accept it. It can be really dangerous to how the story meant for the readers.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Balzac Questions pg. 21 to 41
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.
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.
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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