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- 781: The Good Earth
- In the critically acclaimed novel The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck depicts a humble farmer and his obedient wife O-lan. The Nobel Prize winning classic, set in late eighteenth century China, begins with Wang Lung going to the "Great House of Hwang"(49) to collect the wife that was betrothed to him by his father. Wang Lung lived with his father, wife, and five children, one ...
- 782: The House Of Seven Gables - Sy
- ... beginning of the book, one of the few item in the house that is still bright is a tea set. "Hepzibah brought out some old silver spoons, with the family crest upon them, and a China tea-set … still unfaded, although the tea-pot and small cups were as ancient as the custom itself of tea-drinking" (Hawthorne 77). This tea set is allowed to still shine only because it was ...
- 783: The Power Of One By Ernest Hem
- ... on the Italian front, and in 1918 he was badly wounded. After the war he settled in Paris, France, where he began to write fiction. Later in life Hemingway was a war correspondent in Spain, China, and Europe during World War II.5 It was during those years in the United States and the other countries where Hemingway developed his writing style. In his travel to those foreign countries Hemingway picked ...
- 784: Victorian Literature
- ... the government introduced democratic reforms, such as the right to vote for an increasing number of people. Many important events took place during Victoria's reign. Britain fought in the Opium War (1839-1842) in China and acquired the island of Hong Kong. Britain also fought in the Crimean War (1853-1856) against Russia, and in the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) in order to protect its interests in southern Africa ...
- 785: To Say This Is Enough
- ... of kindness that is done merely for the profit of their conscience. The power of courage and faith are the most poignant values shown in Joy Luck Club. All of the women who came from China are haunted by their pasts caused by the shadows of an extremely patriarchal society. Courage is shown by An Mei and her mother when they swallowed their tears and drew strength from them. Initiative is ...
- 786: Silkworms
- ... Kuomingtang government was going to "throw out the foreign devils". However the Westerners only view it as a generally unequal conflict that was. Until now, although there is no more rejection of foreigners, people in China still call them "Ghosts" or "Red-head Green-eyes monsters" in just because it has been their habit for a hundred years. Mao Tung's writing shows that literary platform is universal and national, and ...
- 787: Short Story, Critical Analysis
- ... lose the war. The story "two Kinds" is set in Chinatown, in Sacramento, in the late 50's to early 60's. Jing-Mei is a young Chinese girl who's mother has come from China to America to find a better life. Jing Mei's mother wants her to be a child prodigy. Jing-Mei just wants to discover who the real her is. At first, Jing-Mei tires to ...
- 788: Review Of The Red Lantern
- There are some movies about lifestyles in China and then there is Raise the Red Lantern. The film parallels The Last Emperor in how a master controls his subjects within his domain. Out of all the Chinese movies that I have extensively viewed ...
- 789: The Time Maching (analysis)
- ... that "The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. The editor called his story a "gaudy story". The narrator comes back to find the time traveler and sees him carrying a camera to his laboratory. He heads to the laboratory as a result of ...
- 790: Power 2
- ... buns. (346) Everybody in the community followed the rules exactly to a T, as Kingston suggests, My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. (344) One human being flared up into violence could open up a black hole, a maelstrom that pulled in the sky. (348-349) Kingston s aunt went against these guidelines and interrupted ...
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