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    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Love can immensely impact a person so much, entirely changing their character. In Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, the theme of love blossoms throughout the story. In the novel, two teenage boys are sent to be re-educated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Lou, an exceptional storyteller and the unnamed narrator, a talented musician, meet “the region’s reigning beauty”: the Little Seamstress. Both fall in love with the illiterate

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    Stories have the power to change a human being’s life. In Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Die Sijie, the narrator experiences many emotions, when he is sent to a rural mountain side in China to experience re-education. This new program instated under the communist party of China, led by Mao Zedong, aims to restructure the knowledge and understandings of modern culture of people in China. However, the narrator changes through the stories he reads. The novel, illustrates how books can have

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    In the Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress book by Dai Sijie, the passage that stood out most was The Old Miller’s Story. This is a story told by the old Miller and when he passed a waterfall on his way to cut firewood and noticed Luo and the Seamstress having sexual interactions but decided to stay and hide while watching it all happen. When reading this scene, it was evident that it displayed the feeling that as a character the old Miller is very curious and zealous about the physical attraction

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    Throughout Daj Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, the Narrator struggles with the discrepancy between what his morals guide his actions towards versus where his impulses direct him. This couldn’t be clearer than on pages 165-167, in which the Narrator begins to become mistrustful of himself, regarding his affections to the Little Seamstress herself, the partner of his best friend, Luo, who is away on family matters. Throughout the entirety of the novel to this point, the Narrator is

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    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written by Dai Sijie, focuses on the main characters; The Narrator, Luo, and The little Chinese Seamstress. Throughout the book the audience discovers new details about these three characters and the kinds of people they are. The Narrator, Luo, and The Seamstress identify their own personality traits and develop advanced characteristics that they have never had before. The passage on pages 157-158 tells of when Luo is leaving the village to go tend to his

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    common; masculine traits. However, these traits weren't necessarily portrayed by a male character. Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart is the one to possess these characteristics but in Like Water for Chocolate it is Mama Elena. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress it is portrayed by a number of characters, both male and female. When looking at these books to each other you can see that there is a difference between their sex and their psychological and behavioral characteristics in relation to their

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    In the novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie, it can be observed that through another character’s perspective as well as their own, Luo and the Seamstress’ relationship is less than ideal and what once may have been a whimsical experience would soon fall from its glorious state. A big indicator of the relationship issues is the Old Miller’s point of view, him being unbiased and just an observer. His use of imagery may symbolize more than what initially meets the

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    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie, is a story about two teenagers fighting for their opportunity of education. In communist China, re-education is an issue dealt with by the youth of the nation. Two teenagers, an unnamed narrator and Luo, attempt to leave their village and take back their freedom and opportunity from the government. Along their way, they enlist the help of a little mountain seamstress, whom both boys immediately fall head over heels for, while Luo claims she

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    the premise; a China undergoing a cultural revolution beginning with the thought that communism was much more valuable to the people than the nationalist regime. However, in the novel, this concept is as prominent as it can possibly be in the little seamstress. Although she is not necessarily the main character, her actions and transformation reflect the power of ideas more than any other

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    Albeit all three of the boys are classified as having a “three in a thousand” chance of leaving Phoenix Mountain at the start of Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, the narrator and Luo are quite different from their cowardly, ungrateful, and propriety-driven counterpart, Four-Eyes, in that they are more bold, compassionate, and art-driven (Sijie 45). The narrator and Luo’s audacity is frequently exhibited throughout the novel such as when Luo deviously asserts that Mozart composed

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