In the book that I am reading now does not have a bad guy, all people were under the era of war, their biggest rival is the society. Parents of poor girls always wanted their daughters to marry into rich families, and rich families always like to keep their wealth within rich families. When a poor girl and a rich guy fall in love without any concern about money, the society looks at it in a whole different way. Other people view the girl as a terrible person, and the family of the guy is trying to persuade him not to marry her. The society is so traditional and shadowed under war. Even if you are a good man, you cannot get a fair chance.
I have read 2 hours this week.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Twist.
Due to the era of the book, there is something that I cannot change, like social stratification and inequality, but those actually make the story quite interesting. There are two brothers in the story that liked the girl at the same time, and they were from a rich family. I want to twist this part. I do not want them to be brothers, and I want the brother to be born in a poor family. The girl in the story was raised by her grandfather, because her father was in the military and her mother died when she gave birth to her. I do not want her mother to die, because I think it would be interesting if her life is influenced by a woman.
I have read 1 hour this week.
I have read 1 hour this week.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
News Report on The Book I Am Reading
A country girl from a fishing village lives with her mother. She went to a wedding with her mother in a big town. There, she saw a nurse with white uniform. Since the girl is from the village and this happened long time ago, she did not know that a nurse was a nurse. The nurse was a very nice lady with pale skin. Mother told the girl that people live in big town do not work outside, so they have pale skin. She found out that she liked to see people like that.
The butler in that house thought the girl was cute, he talked to her mom about her marriage. The mother was happy, because her daughter might have a chance to marry into a big rich family. After the wedding, they, the mother and the girl, would visit that family quite often.
One day, they heard from their friend that the young man in that family died. They rushed to their house, but no one would let them see the young man. After all, they found out that nurse with pale skin and white uniform who was supposed to take care of the young man, happened to be his wife. The ballon of their dream popped.
I have read 3.5 hours this week.
The butler in that house thought the girl was cute, he talked to her mom about her marriage. The mother was happy, because her daughter might have a chance to marry into a big rich family. After the wedding, they, the mother and the girl, would visit that family quite often.
One day, they heard from their friend that the young man in that family died. They rushed to their house, but no one would let them see the young man. After all, they found out that nurse with pale skin and white uniform who was supposed to take care of the young man, happened to be his wife. The ballon of their dream popped.
I have read 3.5 hours this week.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
5 Reasons Why I Would Be Friends with My Author.
I have recently switched a book, because the book that I was reading before did not really catch my interest. The book I am reading now is called The Border Town (边城). This book is written by Shen Congwen.
The first reason is this author was initially trained for a career in military, a soldier in Chinese Army. He could be considered a WW1 veteran in China.
He quitted the army, and devoted himself into literature teaching in various colleges, is the second reason why I would be friends with him. During the war times, young people that were not in the military, really needed to learn and feel strong from the inside. He helped them out.
When the wars ended, he suffered through the Communist Revolution and recovered. This is the third reason. A lot of fiction writers either gave up or got caught by the government and died. Although he went through the hard times, he never published another work of fiction.
His language is in between the time of old Chinese and modern Chinese. It is like between Shakespeare and Flannery O'conner. When the language is easy to understand, he made it very beautiful at the same time. This is the forth reason.
The final reason is the place where the story took place in this book is actually where he was from. This book is so famous that people from all over the country want to see this place. A lot of his readers went there just because he wrote it so beautifully that the dictions motivated the readers. If I have a chance, I would definitely go.
I have read 3 hrs this week.
The first reason is this author was initially trained for a career in military, a soldier in Chinese Army. He could be considered a WW1 veteran in China.
He quitted the army, and devoted himself into literature teaching in various colleges, is the second reason why I would be friends with him. During the war times, young people that were not in the military, really needed to learn and feel strong from the inside. He helped them out.
When the wars ended, he suffered through the Communist Revolution and recovered. This is the third reason. A lot of fiction writers either gave up or got caught by the government and died. Although he went through the hard times, he never published another work of fiction.
His language is in between the time of old Chinese and modern Chinese. It is like between Shakespeare and Flannery O'conner. When the language is easy to understand, he made it very beautiful at the same time. This is the forth reason.
The final reason is the place where the story took place in this book is actually where he was from. This book is so famous that people from all over the country want to see this place. A lot of his readers went there just because he wrote it so beautifully that the dictions motivated the readers. If I have a chance, I would definitely go.
I have read 3 hrs this week.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
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