Jason Gustafson
Mrs. Gauthier
ELA2: Pre-AP
17 September 2015
To Stay or to Be Shortly Forgotten?
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress written by Dai Sijie should continue to be included in the tenth grade curriculum since it investigates different cultures, has realistic, well-developed characters, and features real world problems. Looking to expand the horizons of tenth graders, the novel is set in China upon a remote mountain during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and carries an unfamiliar essence. Sijie describes the land, "Looking up at the vertiginous slopes all around me, I could just make out a foot path rising from the shadowy fissures in the clip towards the sky, where it seemed to melt into the misty air" (12). This places the reader into a location almost alien to youths of the reading …show more content…
Within the story, the author has created quite a few realistic and well-developed characters, which add to the reason to continue this book's ride in the curriculum. When the author enriches us with the boys from disgraced families, "one of the sons of a pulmonary specialist, the other son of a notorious class enemy" (11) it brings us to a bizarre place where because of political powers, people who have bourgeoisie professions are forced into a disgraceful class. In addition, Sijie lets his readers into the characters fears, "I gasped when I saw the risk… Even I started trembling when I set foot on the ridge" (113). This delivers the readers increasingly further into the depths of their complexity since it shows that the characters have a dynamic charm; additionally, it conveys the interconnection between the characters and the reader to demonstration development. All meaning that this novel has realistic and well developed characters. The novel features real-world problems, like when the author elasticities his characters an array of complications, “There was no
Mrs. Gauthier
ELA2: Pre-AP
17 September 2015
To Stay or to Be Shortly Forgotten?
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress written by Dai Sijie should continue to be included in the tenth grade curriculum since it investigates different cultures, has realistic, well-developed characters, and features real world problems. Looking to expand the horizons of tenth graders, the novel is set in China upon a remote mountain during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and carries an unfamiliar essence. Sijie describes the land, "Looking up at the vertiginous slopes all around me, I could just make out a foot path rising from the shadowy fissures in the clip towards the sky, where it seemed to melt into the misty air" (12). This places the reader into a location almost alien to youths of the reading …show more content…
Within the story, the author has created quite a few realistic and well-developed characters, which add to the reason to continue this book's ride in the curriculum. When the author enriches us with the boys from disgraced families, "one of the sons of a pulmonary specialist, the other son of a notorious class enemy" (11) it brings us to a bizarre place where because of political powers, people who have bourgeoisie professions are forced into a disgraceful class. In addition, Sijie lets his readers into the characters fears, "I gasped when I saw the risk… Even I started trembling when I set foot on the ridge" (113). This delivers the readers increasingly further into the depths of their complexity since it shows that the characters have a dynamic charm; additionally, it conveys the interconnection between the characters and the reader to demonstration development. All meaning that this novel has realistic and well developed characters. The novel features real-world problems, like when the author elasticities his characters an array of complications, “There was no