Mr. Chiu and his bride where having lunch in Muji train station waiting for their train. They where heading back to Harbin. While they where eating two police officers dumped tea on Mr. Chiu and his bride’s shoes, disrespected Mr. Chiu, accused him of disrupting the public order, and took him in to custody. In prison he was treated badly and accused wrongfully with false evidence. His lawyer came from Muji to get him out but he was punished, handcuffed to a trunk under the hot sun, and slapped and dumped with water every while. In the end, Mr. Chiu agreed to sigh a self-criticism they write for him in exchange of his release along with his lawyer. In situations of hardship being patient and thinking rationally is the best thing to do.
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In the story we can see and hear the characters from outside. We can also get a feeling of the atmosphere from sentences like, “The air smelled of rotten melon” (660). We can see the third person dramatic in: “’let’s eat,’ he said to her, and break the connected ends of the chopsticks“ (660). The third person dramatic let us see things from the prospective of the characters around the main character, we can see how unjust of the officers to pick on Mr. Chiu and accuse him wrongfully. “This charge may strike the American reader as ridiculous, but in a Communist nation such as China—and China under Deng Xiaoping, who effectively ruled from 1978 through the early 1990s, has been characterized as a dictatorship—the politics of the matter can be everything, and even a false charge can bring severe consequences for the accused” (Sara Constantakis). The story is also written in the third person omniscient. We can read Mr. Chiu’s idea in: “There must be a kitchen upstairs, Mr. Chiu thought” (661).
“Saboteur” takes place in Muji City after the Chinese Cultural revolution. This particular setting is important because it reflects the mood of the country and shows the effect on the people. The people in china became more aggressive after the cultural revolution. This setting is important because it reflects in the conflict of the story. This setting has a lot of influence and the story could not be written in a
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In the story we can see and hear the characters from outside. We can also get a feeling of the atmosphere from sentences like, “The air smelled of rotten melon” (660). We can see the third person dramatic in: “’let’s eat,’ he said to her, and break the connected ends of the chopsticks“ (660). The third person dramatic let us see things from the prospective of the characters around the main character, we can see how unjust of the officers to pick on Mr. Chiu and accuse him wrongfully. “This charge may strike the American reader as ridiculous, but in a Communist nation such as China—and China under Deng Xiaoping, who effectively ruled from 1978 through the early 1990s, has been characterized as a dictatorship—the politics of the matter can be everything, and even a false charge can bring severe consequences for the accused” (Sara Constantakis). The story is also written in the third person omniscient. We can read Mr. Chiu’s idea in: “There must be a kitchen upstairs, Mr. Chiu thought” (661).
“Saboteur” takes place in Muji City after the Chinese Cultural revolution. This particular setting is important because it reflects the mood of the country and shows the effect on the people. The people in china became more aggressive after the cultural revolution. This setting is important because it reflects in the conflict of the story. This setting has a lot of influence and the story could not be written in a