In the book Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is about 2 teenagers named Luo and the narrator that are living in China in the 1970’s. During this time Mao and his communist party was in control of China and were trying to make China into a powerhouse like the US and Russia at the time. They were trying to get rid of the bourgeois and made going to school illegal. They would send the bourgeois kids to be re educated in the countryside. Luo and the narrator are sent to a village to be re educated. They were forced to do labor everyday. They also meet the little Chinese seamstress and became friends with her. The story talks about everyday life in China during the Chinese Revolution and how the characters struggled everyday to survive and educate themselves.
In the beginning of the book, Luo and the narrator are sent to the Phoenix village to be re educated. The narrator brought a violin and the headmaster and villagers were deciding whether it was a useful tool or “a bourgeois toy”pg 4. Luo helped the narrator save it by saying that it was a …show more content…
They try to survive and skip work to educate themselves as much as they can. They think that are above everyone because they have more book knowledge than everyone else in the village. Throughout the book they learned that the villagers have a different kind of knowledge which is useful to surviving in the countryside in the mountains. They learn to respect it and notice that all knowledge is good. But the Seamstress had the opposite effect because she decided to leave the village because she felt that she was more knowledge than everyone else. She felt that she had to leave to gain “valuable knowledge” and not countryside knowledge. The way that the characters changed in the story is similar to how a phoenix dies and rises from the ashes to a new and better version of
In the beginning of the book, Luo and the narrator are sent to the Phoenix village to be re educated. The narrator brought a violin and the headmaster and villagers were deciding whether it was a useful tool or “a bourgeois toy”pg 4. Luo helped the narrator save it by saying that it was a …show more content…
They try to survive and skip work to educate themselves as much as they can. They think that are above everyone because they have more book knowledge than everyone else in the village. Throughout the book they learned that the villagers have a different kind of knowledge which is useful to surviving in the countryside in the mountains. They learn to respect it and notice that all knowledge is good. But the Seamstress had the opposite effect because she decided to leave the village because she felt that she was more knowledge than everyone else. She felt that she had to leave to gain “valuable knowledge” and not countryside knowledge. The way that the characters changed in the story is similar to how a phoenix dies and rises from the ashes to a new and better version of