Context Correlation with Content
The context surrounding the author while writing often correlate directly with the content found when reading the book. Frequently readers take fictional works of writing and detach it from the world completely, however, many times the content of the book relates more to what is happening in the outside world than the things the author chose to create out of nowhere. Context has the ability to affect what the writing chooses to focus on and as a result of that, most of their writing will reflect their lives.
In Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie reflects his childhood experiences in characters within his text. Dai explained the connection between the narrator and Luo by explaining “we rarely …show more content…
Dai tells a story then ends with the phrase “this was our first taste of re-education”, indicating that Luo and him have other influences and experiences coming from the political event. The connotation with having a taste of something, is that the person has never had exposure to what they are now seeing glimpses of. The added layer of using an expression gives the phrase a more dramatic and victimizing feel. For Luo and the narrator, they were forced into re-education without the rest of their education or parents. This separation is clear to see as family matters are rare among their lives. Dai mentioned their role in the system as “to be used as guinea pigs”, implying that they were subjects to a new, unperfected system in order to bring a controversial change into their society. Luo and the narrator’s description of being guinea pigs puts emphasis on the flaws in the system, that they were a victim of. Again, Dai used an expression to convey what happened in an unsettling way, which portrays how they felt at the time. The fact that they were “used” to find these flaws shows their negative opinion of the change throughout the plot and is enforced when they take breaks to visit friends. The idea aired in 1968, tearing many away from their families and homes. The lack of family is made up for frequent friend interactions, creating low values of family, and …show more content…
Dai referred to France as “that distant land called France”, suggesting the narrator had acknowledged his ignorance for the country and found low amounts of interest in it. This character’s opinion is despite the fact that the author has spent fair amounts of time in France. Earlier in the book you can infer that the narrator has some knowledge of western culture from his insights on books, but he dismisses any appeal of France with this phrase. Dai describes the narrator running his “swollen fingers over the strings”, bringing the time in the book to a intense stop as if we could remember the moment from our own lives. This significant detail could easily reflect a moment of Dai’s but he was never know for the violin and his name isn’t tied to anything music related. When Dai left for France in 1984, he earned his title as an author in the 2000’s. This life in France as an author wasn’t apparent in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and in no way influenced the setting or events that occurred in the text.
Context has the ability to completely alter the meaning behind the story and the path the story takes. As the writer writes the story, frequently their life experience has the overall decision for where the story goes. If the author wants to create a novel unlike anything the have seen in their world, that can influence how they perceive
The context surrounding the author while writing often correlate directly with the content found when reading the book. Frequently readers take fictional works of writing and detach it from the world completely, however, many times the content of the book relates more to what is happening in the outside world than the things the author chose to create out of nowhere. Context has the ability to affect what the writing chooses to focus on and as a result of that, most of their writing will reflect their lives.
In Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie reflects his childhood experiences in characters within his text. Dai explained the connection between the narrator and Luo by explaining “we rarely …show more content…
Dai tells a story then ends with the phrase “this was our first taste of re-education”, indicating that Luo and him have other influences and experiences coming from the political event. The connotation with having a taste of something, is that the person has never had exposure to what they are now seeing glimpses of. The added layer of using an expression gives the phrase a more dramatic and victimizing feel. For Luo and the narrator, they were forced into re-education without the rest of their education or parents. This separation is clear to see as family matters are rare among their lives. Dai mentioned their role in the system as “to be used as guinea pigs”, implying that they were subjects to a new, unperfected system in order to bring a controversial change into their society. Luo and the narrator’s description of being guinea pigs puts emphasis on the flaws in the system, that they were a victim of. Again, Dai used an expression to convey what happened in an unsettling way, which portrays how they felt at the time. The fact that they were “used” to find these flaws shows their negative opinion of the change throughout the plot and is enforced when they take breaks to visit friends. The idea aired in 1968, tearing many away from their families and homes. The lack of family is made up for frequent friend interactions, creating low values of family, and …show more content…
Dai referred to France as “that distant land called France”, suggesting the narrator had acknowledged his ignorance for the country and found low amounts of interest in it. This character’s opinion is despite the fact that the author has spent fair amounts of time in France. Earlier in the book you can infer that the narrator has some knowledge of western culture from his insights on books, but he dismisses any appeal of France with this phrase. Dai describes the narrator running his “swollen fingers over the strings”, bringing the time in the book to a intense stop as if we could remember the moment from our own lives. This significant detail could easily reflect a moment of Dai’s but he was never know for the violin and his name isn’t tied to anything music related. When Dai left for France in 1984, he earned his title as an author in the 2000’s. This life in France as an author wasn’t apparent in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and in no way influenced the setting or events that occurred in the text.
Context has the ability to completely alter the meaning behind the story and the path the story takes. As the writer writes the story, frequently their life experience has the overall decision for where the story goes. If the author wants to create a novel unlike anything the have seen in their world, that can influence how they perceive