English9-2008-CatherineH

Monday, November 17, 2008

Compare/contrast for book/movie

In the noval there was the way each of them thinking and feeling about others but the movie didn't show it. At the end of the book, it only showed that Little Seastress left the town because she wanted to be the person in Balzac had its own opion. In the movie, it showed that Luo and the narrator were thinking about when they were young and they all fall in love with Little Seamstress. I thought the book was more interesting then the movie because in the movie it showed too much information. But in the book, the author wanted to created a scene to let you think what would happenend for them for the future.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

p.3-20

1. The headman assumed the violin was a toy. Luo and the narrator fooled the village about the name of the song which they called “Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao.” If there was something that was talking the good of Chairman Mao then they would think that was true. The re-educated boys showed the village was fool because they were not educated.
2. Towards the end of 1968, the Great Helmsman if China’s Revolution, Chairman Mao, launched a campaign that would leave the country profoundly altered. The universities were closed and all the young intellectuals who had graduated from school were sent to the countryside to be re-educated by the poor peasants.
3. Luo’s father was a dentist. Narrator’s parents were doctors. Luo’s father’s crime was because he dared to mention the names of Mao and his consort in the same breath as that of the worst scum of the earth. The narrator and Luo were sending to the poor village because there was a law saying that the person who was educated from school must go re-educated in the village.
4. Luo punched the narrator because he was sad that his father admitted that he slept with the nurse. He could not believe what he heard because he thought his father didn’t do anything wrong just that other people blame on him.
5. They called the mountain Phoenix of the Sky because it was composed some twenty villages scattered along the single serpentine footpath or hidden in the depths of gloomy villages and they felt the same way as the music.
6. Alarm clock allows Luo and Ma changed time whatever they want so this showed us that technology and education overpower and trick the ignorant peasants.
7. The re-education last for one year. They were despondent that they had to work in this village.
8. Luo’s gift was the clock. He gave it to them and he could change the time easily. But it also made people don’t know what was the real time.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

To live

1. During the Revolution, it was hard to survive. So their only goal was to stay alive.
2. All the men had same condition as him. They all had to go to fight for their country. They could not tell their family and when they died their family would not know about it.
3. Even though Jiaz’s two children were all died, the life had to go on, too. So she had to adapt the live without her children staying with her.
4. When he was rich, he wasted his time on gambling even though he had told his wife not to. But when he became poor, he realized that money was not important, the most important thing was to stay with his family.
5. Mr. Niu would be killed when he was caught by the government because he was the leader of this town. Government would let the people who had their own thinking way to stay alive.
6. The boy wsa killed he was sleeping and the driver was going back, then he died and the driver got injured. Even though the boy had more serious injury then the driver, but they only send the driver to the hospital because they thought the boy’s life was not important.
When the girl had her baby born, there were no proper doctors in the hospital so she died. In that century, people who smart and had power would be caught by the government because they afraid they would lead the people to take over their power.
7. People worked hard to help their government to control the other countries. When they need steel to make the weapons, everyone gave their own things to the government.
8. They were not rich, but they all suffer from the war and they were happy about their life to stay with their family.
9. Government didn’t want their citizens knew about the truth and the bad thing they do. They didn’t want citizens had their point of view of government made wrong thing and afraid if they knew the truth, the citizens would take over the government.
10. My rate for this movie was four points. The director and the actors explained the life in China well. I thought when Fugui and his friends were and singing and didn’t know there were all soldiers out there. So when they got caught, they went to the war. And when they waked up and the morning, they saw everyone died. When they trying to run away, they got caught by the Red Guards and sent to their home. It was very scary and sad when I saw that people died in this war. I didn’t like the director explained two of his children died. Because they did not do anything wrong and I thought Fugui and his wife were sad because all if their children died from the accidents.