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Wild Swans Three Daughters Of China, And Siddhartha Change

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“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts”(4). This quote is discussing change, which is an inevitable part of life that affects us not always in the way we desire. These words a said by Paul, who is among a class of young soldiers who just enlisted in the army without thinking of the consequences. The young soldiers of the film All Quite on the Western Front are not unlike the characters of three other works of literature; Wild Swans Three Daughters of China, Siddhartha, and Assignment: Rescue. It is true that they all experience entirely different political or cultural changes/continuities in their societies, but there is a distinct similarity in how …show more content…

The first way to cope with change is to continue boldly into life as though nothing is wrong. This method can first be seen in the novel Wild Swans Three Daughters of China, which is describing the life of three generations of women in the same family as China is going through many cultural and political changes. The narrator’s name is Er-hong, but this example of persevering through change is about her mother; De-hong. De-hong is a young, strong woman who was living in China during it’s war ages. She has just married to Er-hong’s father, Chang-Shou-yu, and she also waiting to become a full member to the Communist party. To become a member, she ventures on a thousand mile journey. Along with her other comrades she travels harsh lands and even harsher bandits. After one night of crying her comrades began to declare that she was “‘A precious lady from the exploiting classes’”(Chang, Page 144). To avoid any further discrimination, she kept all feelings inside, even the feelings of resentment towards her husband, who did not give her as much affection as she desired. De-hong’s change is her treacherous climb, and to not display her pain to others. She copes with

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