Forbidden City Quotes

The leader of Germany from 1933 to 1935 went by the name of Adolf Hitler. Before he was ever the leader ,of Germany, he volunteered to fight in World War I. WWI is where Hitler became a strong German soldier and came to love war. By invading Poland and many other European countries, Adolf was the reason why Word War II started. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi group trying to eliminate all of the Jewish citizens (“Adolf”). Throughout his years, Adolf said many violent words that still disgust people these days.

     Mark Salzman’s purpose was to take you to China and introduce you to the people he had met on his journey. He had published this book only two years after he had gone to China. He desperately wanted to share an outsiders look into China and what influences were in his life. Mark wrote so fluidly that it was person to person.

This memoir of Ma Bo’s sent shock waves throughout China when it was published and was even first banned by the Communist Government. This passionate story paints a clear picture for what the Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was really like. Many Chinese living today can attest to similar if not identical ordeals as expressed in Ma Bo’s story. The toils of being a young Red Guard in inner China were experienced by many if not millions. The horrors and atrocities were wide spread throughout the country, not just in Inner Mongolia. The experiences illustrated in Blood Red Sunset uniquely belong to Ma Bo’s entire generation of mislead Chinese. As expressed in the books dedication the Cultural Revolution

In Jan Wong’s entrancing expose Red China Blues, she details her plight to take part in a system of “harmony and perfection” (12) that was Maoist China. Wong discloses her trials and tribulations over a course of three decades that sees her searching for her roots and her transformation of ideologies that span over two distinctive forms of Communist governments. This tale is so enticing in due part to the events the author encountered that radically changed her very existence and more importantly, her personal quest for self-discovery.

Alex sawyer is a very mixed up person with very strong emotions and morals and during his story, he bonds with friends, cares for them like a father figure, and tries his best to protect them. In this way, he is very like Mercedes in the way that he is very emotional. However, he is very different because he starts out being a carefree thief that runs around robbing houses of the rich and selling the items. Nevertheless, he is kind hearted after a man in a black suit kills his best friend he runs for his life with the gun since he has been framed for his best friend’s murder. After being caught, he turns to a very rebellious personality always looking for a way to break out of the prison. He is the opposite of Mercedes because he has a very “leap before you look” personality and Mercedes does not. Alex is also consider a traveler because he travels across the city and the prison exploring and moving around all series. This is very different from Mercedes who stays stagnate the whole book in call of the wild. The last difference between Alex sawyer and Mercedes is that unlike Mercedes which the supporting antagonist in call of the wild. Alex is the main protagonist and he is trying to say the other kids from the prison/ laboratory and stop the experiments on

The Book “Forbidden City” is a book about a 17-year-old kid named Alex Jackson who went to China with his dad for an assignment. When they made it to Beijing, they went to the Beijing hotel, and there he met another reporter named Eddie working for the CBC like Alex’s father and Lao Xu who was a reporter for the Chinese government. I was surprised when Alex’s father got a liver disease so he went back. This book was overall interesting.

About the book: This book is a realistic fiction historical story. The book relates a unique point of view from Chinese immigrants in America during the early 20th century in the city of San Francisco. The story is about a boy called Moon Shadow who is eight years old by the time he leaves his country China to join his father that lives in America. His father called Windrider lives in the city of San Francisco’s Chinatown and works in a laundry store. The boy doesn’t know how his father looks like because he hasn’t seen him since he was a baby, but he admires and feels affection for his father. His father is an intellect man with marvelous dreams. Windrider with the support of his son, he is disposed to bear the jeering from the other Chinese,

“The idleness of a passenger, my isolation amongst all these men with whom I had no point of contact, the oily and languid sea, the uniform somberness of the coast, seemed to keep me away from the truth of things, within the toil of a mournful and senseless delusion. The voice of the surf heard now and then was a positive pleasure, like the speech of a brother.” (Conrad 14) Marlow is describing how alone he feels in this new world he’s entered, and he’s not alone. Every European man who went to Africa at this time felt the same way. They felt homesick, lonely, and completely out of their comfort zone.

“The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear someone say that all the people that belong to a certain country, race, or religion are bad — is extremely untruthful and makes the person making the statement lose credibility right away. We are all flawed and even nature is flawed. Nobody is perfect, and no country, race or religion is perfect. Duality and polarity are imprinted in everything in nature — in all humans, and even within ourselves. For example, there are those who are ignorant, and those who are wise.” Written by Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem. David Henry Hwang story, “Trying to Find Chinatown” is about two men Ronnie and Benjamin who are both part of the Chinese culture. “Trying to Find Chinatown” is two different culture perspectives of two men who are part of the same ethnicity. Ronnie is a native to the Chinese Culture, both his parents were Chinese but he also looks as if he is Chinese. However Benjamin is also part of the Chinese culture but he doesn’t appear as if he is. Ronnie and Benjamin both feel stereotyped and they each tell there story of how there life is different. The best part of the play is that no view point of Ronnie or Benjamin seems to be more privileged or better than the other, they are both equally respected. Ronnie lives in New York city and Benjamin is visiting New York City . Ronnie is a very aggressive passionate man about

Ruinous Ramifications of Revenge Charles Dickens, a famous writer, speaker, and recitalist, was born in England on February 7, 1812 and wrote numerous works of fiction. One of his most well known compositions includes A Tale of Two Cities, a historical fiction novel based on the events of the French Revolution. Many themes are presented throughout this novel, including sacrifice, man’s inhumanity to man, fate, and revenge. Revenge is a constant theme that is shown to the reader through the use of characters. Dickens demonstrates that revenge brings about negative consequences, especially for Gaspard, the peasants, and Madame Defarge.

How would you feel if you were plunged into a world of chaos in one split second. That is what a average teenager Alex felt during a normal day at his home in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Alex show a lot of bravery during the book was daring enough to travel 6 weeks to find his parents and was very kind to people on the way, maybe even too kind.

In Night City by Elizabeth Bishop, Bishop hints at the fact that humans are ruining themselves through pollution, industrialism, and human greed. Human society is the main cause of all the problems associated with pollution and seems to trouble the health of planet Earth. In the fourth stanza, Elizabeth Bishop writes, “the city burns guilt”. This quote shows that even though humans may feel guilty about what they are doing, as long as their lives are becoming easier by harming the Earth, they are still willing to do so. Connecting with this point, Elizabeth Bishop writes, “Another cried a skyscraper up”. In this case, ‘Another’ is referring to the tycoon, which symbolizes greed, guilt, industrial development, and capitalism. By building a

The Lost City of Z is a nonfiction novel, which tells the story of Colonel Percy Fawcett, a 1920s British explorer who vanished along with his son, Jack, during an expedition into the Amazon to discover a fabled lost city called “Z.” Fawcett was born in Victorian England and later in his life, would join the British military. Fawcett was stationed in Ceylon, during which period, he met his future wife, Nina and discovered his love for exploration. Fawcett would eventually join the Royal Geographical Society and train to be a formal explorer. Then in 1905, Fawcett was commissioned to map the Peru-Bolivian border in the Amazon. However, his first expedition in the jungle was plagued by disaster, with native tribes and environments that aimed

China as a nation has always been weak (World History: The Modern Era). It has been an acquisition to many nations and groups. However in history’s recent past it has fallen to Japan and Communism. Both of which can be viewed through the lens of good and the lense of bad. However for the China born author Ha Jin it is not viewed under the light of prosperity but instead dread and oppression. These are not tales to be taken lightly in any sense but instead to show how humanity is not always human and empathy is not always present in one’s soul. Ha Jin uses dramatic events and actions with certain points of view to develop characters that antagonize Communist and Japanese rule over China.

I soon began to work with Quentin Young more to get ready for the expedition. Respect grew between us during the long days of collaboration. Young conjured a chinese name for me. It was “Ha Gansi” which is translated as “ laughing with courageous thoughts”. China has given me piece of mind that I have never had before, and a calmness that is a great relief. I began to worry about how we were going to keep the panda alive, etc. so I began to think that a baby panda instead of an adult was a good solution. Though, it would be hard enough to find a panda, a baby panda would be impossible to find. “I was told that Western China was no place for a lone white women- especially a woman with no experience in business or traveling. I did not believe it. I was also warned of the present possibility of running into bandits in the interior of Szechwan and reminded that Bill had been compelled to run back. I had done too much to admit defeat before I started.” I soon began to discard my Western ways. My American clothes were left behind in Shanghai. My Shanghai tailor fashioned for me loose-cut, boxy jackets and matching trousers made out of blue cloth and coolies wore. I was hoping to forget all things Western and absorb all things Chinese. Just miles out of Chengdu there were reports of bandits in the area. We came across a man sprawled on the road next to an open field and pierced with bullets. This was a freshly murdered body of one of the