Ling Yushi's Room: A Narrative Fiction

The Scandalous Hollywood Fat Man: Roscoe Arbuckle Have you ever wondered how everyday life would be if there were parade tabloid writers and paparazzi following your every move? Every step you take you hear the shutter of a camera and microphones following you around to get the “scoop”. This was the life Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. Roscoe was a very famous comedian during the nineteen-teens and twenties. He co-starred with Mabel Normand in many films such as “Mabel’s Wilful Way” and “Fatty and Mabel Adrift” under Keystone Film Studio.

In contrast, during the era of The Story Yingying, the cultural norm for a woman was to be submissive, patient, and passive. Yingying upheld all of these cultural standards. After meeting Zhang for the first time Yingying showed no interest in him at all but overtime Yingying finally gave into Zhang and fell in love and they became engaged. Unfortunately, Zhang had to leave for a year to go take a civil service examination, but he promised her he would come back to her. She waited patiently and after a year, her fiancé returned but shortly after had to leave again to retake the examination. Again she waited patiently for his return, but he never came back. After waiting for years for her fiancé to return, she became eager to

Good Earth Responses In chapter 1 of The Good Earth we are introduced to the protagonist Wang Lung and are given an overview of his life style. We also are informed that he is about to get married and yet has no clue of what his wife is like. This fact is told when the first sentence says, “It was Wang Lung’s marriage day.” and the second quote, “We will have to see what is to be had”,which indicates he doesn’t know what his wife looks like.

In the Qin state, a growing leader was about to prosper. Legends says a wealthy merchant who is acquainted with King Zhuangxiang of Qin came to him one day in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BCE). His name was Lu Buwei. On that day, Lu Buwei had arranged with the king to meet his lovely wife, Zhao Ji. As soon as they met, the King Zhuangxiang of Qin felt an attraction to her. Eventually, Zhao Ji became the mistress of King Zhuangxiang of Qin and in 259

"Let me finish speaking," snapped Mei Changsu. To Jingyan's horror, the man stumbled a step backward, back against the trunk of the tree behind him. The metal tip slid a fraction further and blood began to blossom with renewed ferocity. The composure on Mei Changsu's face slipped, revealing what resembled the determined stare of a cornered wild animal.

Furthermore, instead of arranged marriages that only benefited the patriarchal head, intellectuals pushed for marriages based on love which would create happy and productive citizens . In addition, based on her mother’s experience, Bao Qin rejects arranged marriages and intends to only marry for love . After hearing of two concubines who drug Cousin Hu’s mother to feign adultery and gain the favour of her husband, Bao Qin is enraged by the historic “powerlessness of women, [the] barbarity of age-old customs, cloaked in tradition .” With the broad shift from tradition as well as her own personal experience, Bao Qin rejects traditional gender roles and seeks to create her own. Furthermore, as China became divided into separate spheres of influence and opened to international markets, British and American industrialization brought new ideas of opportunities for women, challenging established gender relations . With new economic opportunities and education, women could become self-reliant, broadening their choices and their role in society. Consequently, after disobeying her parents’ command to attend Mr. Liu’s funeral, Bao Qin was able to support herself by enrolling in a new teacher training department . Reducing patriarchal control, industrialization allowed children to head to schools and factories, no longer needing to rely on their parents for education and work . As a result, while foreign

In the chapter “Waiting Between the Trees” Ying-ying’s past in China that she has kept from her daughter is revealed. When she was young she believed that she was too good for any man, however eventually she realized she had to settle and married an indecent man, despite her being extremely vain. She had given up herself for this man, only for him to

2. Although Jing Mei is too young to know what was her mother’s real thought, she gives a clear description of what her mother said, did, how she did it. Some

Propaganda in general is the idea of getting others to believe in one’s own beliefs. Propaganda is the “attempt to influence behavior…by affecting through the use of mass media of communications, the manner in which a mass audience perceives and ascribes meaning to the material world.”1 Propaganda was a major part of Germany’s way to brain wash people into following Hitler and his army. The theme of Hitler and Goebbels, (Paul Joseph Goebbels, was appointed Hitler’s Reichspropagandaleiter, the Nazis national director of propaganda), using propaganda, “was to merge the traditional German patriotism with Nazi ideological motifs”2, this was basically used from1919 to 1945.

By ignoring their mothers, these daughters do not see the similarities between themselves and their mothers, for their mothers have also rejected Chinese traditions, particularly those that repress women. After witnessing her mother's tragic fate, An-Mei has come to America determined to raise her children to have choices. Lindo's early arranged Chinese marriage has taught her to value America where "nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you" (254). Jing-mei's mother "believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America" (132). Ying-ying belatedly realizes that her lifetime of keeping her mouth closed "so selfish desires would not fall out" (67) has meant that she has lost herself. In all four cases, it is when the daughters recognize these similarities that they start to understand not only their mothers, but also themselves.

"My mother once told me why I was so confused all the time. She said I was without wood. Born without wood so that I listened to too many people. She knew this, because once she had almost become this way" (107). Rose is not very sure of herself and lacks self confidence. She was experiencing a divorce and knew her mother would not approve. Although Rose believes there is nothing to salvage, her mother will do anything in her power to try and save it. To the Chinese culture, keeping a marriage together was essential. If you did not, you have demolished your family's honor. Both An mei and Rose have different values and views on life. They do not see eye-to-eye on anything. Furthermore, the reader may infer that conflicts arise in the lives of Lindo and Waverly

i believe that the native americans should get money instead of land , these are my reason why.

As a result of Jing-mei having no self confidence, this causes the relationship between Jing-mei and her mother to be destroyed. After Jing-mei tells her mother, “‘Then I wish I’d never been born!” “I wish I were dead! Like them.” Jing-mei describes her mother’s reaction as, “and her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless” (Tan 231). After saying the one thing that hurt Jing-mei’s mother the most, their relationship changed forever. As Jing-mei ages she realized that her mother was right about her natural talent all along. “And after that, every time I saw it in my parents’ living room, standing in front of the bay windows, it made me feel proud, as if it were a shiny trophy I had won back” (Tan 233). Even though Jing-mei says the one thing that hurts her mother the most, the love and confidence for her daughter was never lost. However, once Jing-mei comes to the realization that her mother was right, it is too

Again, the daughter, Amy Tan, and her mother’s relationship is very tense, but the love and care is replaced with cold anger and hate. Tan has been pushed to her limits and beyond during her piano lesson when she sobs,”You want me to be something I’m not!...I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!” (141-142). Her mother, unlike the one before who was a bit more understanding of how much pressure she put on her daughter, shows no sense of love or care when she was ‘smiling crazily as if she were please that I was crying’(Tan 141-142). The relationship in “Jing Wei:Two Kinds” is extremely warlike between Amy Tan and her mother. The hostility in their relationship due to her mother’s extreme measures for her to be successful creates quite an angry and hateful tone in the

Furthermore, the author explores the tone of the novel by providing specific details. In An-mei's childhood story, the author chooses to describe the pain An-mei feels as the soup pours over her by providing details of the twinge. She describes it as "the kind of pain [specially] terrible that a little child should never remember it" and how it still remains "in [An-mei's] skin's memory" (Tan 39). By depicting these details of the pain, Tan expresses the feeling of misery An-mei feels, which appends to the melancholy tone. Additionally, in the story of Ying-ying's first marriage, the author presents explicit details of the emptiness Ying-ying feels by portraying details of her as "a tiger that neither pounce[s] nor lay[s] waiting between the trees" and "an unseen spirit" (Tan 285). This emptiness Ying-ying feels seems to indicate the melancholy tone that appears noticeable in the novel. Clearly, the details Amy Tan chooses to describe in the novel seem to specify the somber tone.