The Dancer, By Ahmad Tohari And The Memoir

The autobiography, Mao’s Last Dancer written by Li Cunxin, is effective in raising awareness of the injustice the Chinese people experienced during Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution and later communist policies in China. When Li’s parents got married in 1946, they were not living in poverty. However, when the Japanese invaded China during WWII and forced all the civilians into communes, Mao then kept these communes and the Li family lost their wealth—they faced injustice and marginalisation. The Chinese population were marginalised by Mao’s use of communist principles and propaganda. They were forced into believing Mao’s views—that the West (Capitalist countries) were filthy and bad, while China was good. Li’s visit to America was an eye-opener.

The first similarity is that both of the novels are written by Negro slave. They described the cruel experience in southern plantation and escape from the southern slavery to northern freedom.

The two stories were alike in the fact that both authors lost their parents at a very young age. Since they lost their parents at a young age, they were both raised by their grandparents. Both stories also begin with a safe arrival to a new country. Both also said the journey to the new country was a two month long trip. And lastly, the the refugees and the pilgrims traveled to a completely different continents and had to adapt to new cultures. These are all the similarities between the two stories.

With authenticity, insight, and compassion, Mitali Perkins delivers another culturally rich coming-of-age novel, The Bamboo People. Chiko and Tu Reh are dynamic narrators whose adolescent angst and perspectives permeate the trauma of their daily lives. This novel takes place against the political and military backdrop of modern-day Burma. Narrated by two teenagers on opposing sides of the conflict between the Burmese government and the Karenni, one of the many ethnic minorities in Burma, The Bamboo People explores the nature of violence, power, and prejudice. Perkins gives readers a glimpse into what it means to be a hero. Readers will not return from this book without a new sense of the geopolitics of modern day Burma (Myanmar). War and

One similarity is in both texts the main person is fighting against the oppressive government. Another way that the two texts are similar is in both the government has put on unfair laws on its citizens. A quote from Harrison Bergeron that supports this is “The year 2081... nobody was smarter than anybody else nobody was better looking than anyone else nobody but it was stronger or quicker than anybody else.”

The autobiography Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin is set in rural China where he was born and where he grew up in. The text shows Li’s life in how he transcends from his ‘poor’ roots, as he becomes a prominent ballet dancer. The text exposes Li’s physical and mental struggles, which his mental struggles, have a larger toll against him. The conceptual struggles are presented as Li leaves his family to go to Madame Mao’s Dance Academy, when Teacher Gao ridicules him and how he grew up with the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party. Mental struggle is presented when Li moves to the dance academy, which proves a bigger toll on Li than his physical struggles.

Overall, these are two great stories that give the reader a better idea of what war can and most likely will do to a person. Although there are differences, the similarities are

War changes people, it transforms them and let's out deep emotions and actions that they never thought they had. These transformations of the human soul are best shown with in the film Platoon with the character Chris Taylor and the chapter Sweetheart of The Song Tra Bong in the book The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien revolving around the character Mary Ann Bell. The two stories both similar in the way of a character changing from the experience of war; Chris Taylor a man who arrives at Vietnam pale faces and innocent, joining the war thinking he's doing it for the greater good, quickly realizes that he's not in his element. Just as Chris Taylor, Mary Bell comes to Vietnam pale faced and innocent but she comes to the war to

A very important similarity between the stories, is that they both are in the view point of a Union soldier in the nineteenth century, during the civil war. The similarities between these two books combine the ideals of battle and war, also the resemblances show how alike the two protagonists of the stories are.

The similarities of the book are very simple and easy to point out. In both works, they cover the same events in

The settings in the two stories are similar in the way that they both take place in a small town with a sense of poverty. The adults are portrayed as authoritative and the narrators feel trapped.

The similarities in each book are many, as most occur in the important events in each story like them getting split from their families. In the beginning, they’re both split from their families, then sent to camps. After they both end up just trying to survive in this new place, then after some time, get sent to another camp. The next camp for

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.

The 2 stories are similar as they use the same systems of a lack of freedom, and by using science fiction elements to show a theme that society can change for the worst. For example, in “Harrison Bergeron”, it is directly stated that “George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental

The poem "The Harlem Dancer" is specifically about a women who dances. This is evident from the first two lines "applauding youth laughed with young prostitutes and watched her perfect, half clothed body sway." Despite the fact that the woman is a dancer the speaker finds beauty in her. He compares her voice to "blended flutes" given her an elegant qualities that seems to contradict the environment she is in. The speaker notices the way in which she carries herself on stage, with grace and calm. Even though she's a dancer she carries her self with pride, and in a way this shines more of her beauty. In line 10 reality finally sets in for the speaker when he acknowledges the "tossed coins in praise". He had been so mesmerized by the woman's elegance