Love In A Fallen City Analysis

All the characters involved in this book played an important role by creating an interesting novel portraying the different social-classes and experiences by making a combination of two plot lines developed simultaneously. The main characters, including the protagonists of this amazing

Another important aspect of Hong Kong is the huge crowds, and abundance of people. As such there are usually long line ups on platforms, stations, and at ATM’s. Trains are usually stuffy and everyone is used to standing very close each other. There isn’t much personal space in public settings but people are generally friendly and

Kingsbury’s translation has the rhyme and the rhythm which echoes the original form of the poem. In her translation, she uses the “e” sound at the end as the rhyming patterns, also, she keeps the syllables short in order to keep the original form. At the end, she also adds a footnote that “the poem’s fourth stanza implies that the lovers’ vow remain faithful across time and distance was not kept (Kingsbury 319)”. Even though she translates the whole message of the original poem, without the annotation, the readers will not be able to understand the foreshadows of the poem that Fan Liuyuan and Bai Liusu will eventually reunion no matter what happens. Therefore, Kingsbury’s annotations are essential for target readers to fully understand Eileen Chang’s

Everyone knew that when one stayed in the water too long, one drowned. However, that was not the case. In Alden Nowlan’s, “The Fall of the City,” Teddy was a young boy who had a very vivid imagination. Although at times it went to the dark side, it was ultimately the mistreatment from his aunt and uncle which cause Teddy to destroy his city. For example, his uncle’s threats of physical abuse leaded Teddy drowned in his imagination, the only place where he can feel safer. Although Teddy hardly spoke back to his uncle, he was still threatened that he will not “be able to sit down the rest of the week.” The threat isolated Teddy from his uncle and Teddy felt as if he has no one to turn to. Without someone who truly understands his feelings,

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Following this expectation, Zhong Yu chooses the take part in a loveless marriage. According to Zhong Yu, those who choose not to marry are “regarded as an eccentric who looks down on ordinary people,” in short, a “heretic” (145). Furthermore, when being questioned on why she chose to get married, she reasons that “people may talk you into getting married” (135). Both instances illustrate Zhong Yu’s willingness to let external opinions dictate her choice, not wanting to be judged by others in the first instance and doing as she is told in the latter. Evidently, making a decision based on social norm is a choice Zhong Yu regrets and “when [she] can’t sleep at night, [she] forces herself to sober up by recalling,” her past mistakes (135). Additionally, when conversing with her daughter, Zhong Yu strongly advises her not to marry too early. The fear of judgement compels Zhong Yu spends a lifetime of reminiscing past memories, rather than living for happiness. Zhong Yu tries to cope with a lifetime of loving in spirit rather than in person, yet this leaves her in a state of despair and emptiness. Zhong Yu acknowledges the mistakes she makes when conversing with her daughter, and shares the knowledge she gains, in hopes that her daughter will not repeat the same

Chinatown has many cultural traits that set it apart from neighboring areas; however there is

A “keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute” (Shulman 371) guy looking for a simple gorgeous girl gets more than what he bargained for on an attempt to make her life more involved by teaching her to think logically. “Love is a Fallacy” is an essay written by Max Shulman. The narrator is a smooth guy in the story and Polly Epsy is the female that he desires. In the story, he did many things in attempt to get with Polly. According to the narrator, Polly is also so uneducated that she believed and took everything that he said literally. His attempt to change Polly for the better backfired on him because she is able to think for herself and she learned her lessons on fallacies and was able to turn it on him.The narrators challenge to change a female because she did not meet his standards and the female being naïve, forces me to believe that this story is both anti-woman and anti-man.

In our life, we already read more and more poems talk about “love”, it was common for everyone to know what about the love. When I first read Billy Collin’s “Aimless Love”, this poem was bringing something new to me.

Hong Kongers protest procession to “kick” out all mainland Chinese. They call the visitors from the mainland as “locust”. I know what mainland Chinese done is wrong, but that does not represent everyone will do the same things. Due to this contradiction, Hong Kongers start to give tourist nasty looks if they speak Mandarin. Some Hong Kongers will discriminate and abuse, force innocent visitors to open their suitcases to show what they brought in Hong Kong! Even though Hong Kong’s reversion to China occurs, a lot of local residents still despise Mandarin and simplified Chinese characters. Hong Kongers believe they have their own culture, currency and system. They have all the requirements to build a country, thus they don’t want mainland China to step in or get involve with them. Although I have not experienced this bias behaviors directly, I still this kind of discrimination should be

Let’s Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste centers on Carl Wilson’s quest to discover why we like and dislike certain aspects of our larger culture. Within this search he finds how cultural taste relates to how humans perceive both each other and themselves. Each chapter is an exploration into one part of taste and how it relates to the world beyond the book. In Chapter 7, Wilson explores objectivity. Specifically, he asks: “is there any objectivity in artistic taste?” (Wilson 75). In other words, Wilson is questioning whether objectivity can exist at all in the artistic sphere, or if taste is ultimately ruled by subjectivity and bias. In addition to this question, Wilson also asks how the existence of objectivity or lack thereof

Throughout history, love has been portrayed in numerous perspectives ranging from physical to emotional love. Literary works from various backgrounds provide distinctive interpretations of love. Marie de France along with medieval lyric poets touch upon topics revolving around love and spiritual affection. The pieces provide different treatments on courtly and secular love, illustrating the comparison between the physical and emotional aspect as well. Courtly love draws from the characteristics of passionate affections between nobles with someone other than their spouse (Doan, courtly source). The treatment of love reveals the different cultural backgrounds and personal perception of love through their uses of figurative language and

In my opinion, our first introduction of the woman through Du Wus poem does not show romantic love from Du Fu to the woman even though she is supposedly the very lovely. Instead it is used to identify the aspect of hardship associated with love later on in the poem when Du Fu suggests for the husband “All he can see is the smile of the new love, While the old love weeps unheard”. He has left her for another woman. She knows that while she is mourning her loss of him, he is seeing the “smile of the new love.” Du Fu reminds his audience that this woman is experiencing a pain that is so much deeper than just a physical pain and it is a consequence of falling in love.

Hong Kong is a modern, fast-paced international city saturated with skilled workforce and a desired destination of many immigrants. Due to such nature of Hong Kong, it is a highly competitive society. In 1997, Hong Kong, originally a colony of the UK, was returned to China, as a special territory free of China’s administration. This provided a balance between both Western and Oriental cultures in the educational system of Hong Kong. However, since 1980s, globalization affected many places in some form on the society. Therefore, Hong Kong has spent a decade in reforming its educational system which gradually emphasizes more on technical subjects to keep up with the trends resulting from globalization. These changes are made to

Throughout her novel, Tan exploits the aspects of fragmentation, to explore the novel’s search for identity, while highlighting differences between the cultures of America and China. When comparing China to America, arranged marriages were common practice especially for families to rise in power or money; in contrast, this practice is absent in American culture. Those affected by this practice, felt unhappy with their loveless marriages because they were unable to make their own decisions. Before Lindo Jong had moved to America, she found herself in this similar