Homework for the story, "Gold Boy, Emerald Girl"
Using the questions found on the reverse of today's worksheet or the “Guide to Literary Terms,” (click for more complete information, including theme and point of view; Word document) write a paragraph answer based on the page number given to you at class on Friday.
You may comment on more than one example (e.g. for setting you could refer to both the physical setting and the social environment) that occurs on those pages.
Remember to have one overall topic that is more general than your content, so we know how you plan to answer. Write about 150 to 200 words in a single paragraph. Quote at least twice and work to integrate your quotations into your own sentences. Try to show how your page relates to something that happens either before or after it in the story.
I will post a sample answer here this weekend.
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On page eight of the story, the true character of Siyu’s love for Professor Dai becomes clear to the reader. After giving us a long paragraph full of details of Siyu’s relationship with her father, Yiyun Li proceeds to explain the reasons for Siyu’s “ungrateful and coldhearted” approach. Indeed, Siyu loves Professor Dai, but in a way “she could not explain and did not have a right to claim in the first place.” That Siyu must keep it a “secret” is not a surprise, and by giving us lots of detail, Li lets us catch a glimpse of a complex and round character and helps us to better understand her. Indeed, the story shows us a great depth and complexity in its characterization, one of the reasons I find it interesting and worth reading and rereading. The boundaries of human experience are wide and in a story where three characters need to “make a world that would accommodate their loneliness,” it is good to see non traditional ways of living shown sympathetically. This way, it is easier to understand Siyu’s love and the sensible arrangement the three characters make to live together. —194 words
On page seven of the story, the personalities of the two main characters—Hangfeng and Siyu—are clearly showed and the reason of Professor Dai’s indifference gets explained. The setting is located at a coffee shop after Hanfeng invites Siyu to have a dinner with his mother and him. As a complex and round character, Siyu shows her strongness and coldness in heart while she is asked her mother by Hanfeng; and she is pitiful while she thought “she had no right to feel let down”. Unwilling to get married Hanfeng is a kind man; when he knows Siyu is the same as him (both of them are raised by single parent), “there was a gentleness in Hanfeng’s eyes”. What’s more, Yiyun Li mentions that Professor Dai’s late husband has died by an accident and later Professor Dai blames herself by she “would never be free of own cruelty”. That is why she becomes indifferent with others. All above become the reason of this arrangement marriage; they also help me better understand the arrangement marriage and accept its existence.
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On page eight of the story, Hanfeng and Siyu found something in common each other: they saw a bicycle rider through the window who travelled with a child on the back rack of the bicycle in the busy traffic streets of Beijing. I like the way that Yiyun Li implied about the two main character’s conflicts -“half orphans”- through the bicycle rider and the child. The child was a mirror of them; “He behind his mother, she her father.” After the sight disappeared, Siyu has shared with Hanfeng about her recalled memories of her childhood with her gentle father. Although she didn’t mention about her distress from being “motherless”; Hanfeng could read her sadness and loneliness. He has perceived her wounds of both the mind and spirit as he thought Siyu is “a beautiful and sad woman.” He could understand about her oddness and singleness because he also has similar conflicts as Siyu. I think this is the most valuable thing that found someone who is really able to understand my burden in my life. Also, I wanted to tell Siyu that the most privilege from the marriage is to attain “a life companionship”.
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On page one of the story, the three protagonists of the story are been showed clear to the reader. After giving us two paragraphs full of details of relationship between the three characters, the author shows the background of them. It’s easier to make the reader understand the characters. On the first page, the author introduces the setting of the story “He was raised by his mother alone, as she was by her father, she wondered if his mother, who had set up their date, had told him about that.” By reading this sentence, the reader probably knows the traditional Chinese culture which the marriage is been arranged by parents. By giving us lots of detail about professor Dai on the third paragraph, the author lets us catch a distinctive character and help us to understand the behavior of her. For example, the author describes the professor Dai “the fact that she could mask her indifference to the human species with her devotion to animals.” It’s clearly to show that the old single mother’s loneliness.
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On page four of the story and in Limited Omniscient point of view, author Yiyun Li gives us some clues to understand why the two main characters, Hanfeng and Siyu, agreed to the arranged marriage and lived with Professor Dai; despite how unattractive this vapid and flat character is. As a “headstrong woman,” Professor Dai is “regal and intimidating”; her “hurtful” personality and lack of social skills can also be recognized when she immediately placed the present next to the wastebasket. Although Professor Dai seems to be truly unlovable, the two events on this page broke the bias toward this pitiful woman: Hanfeng found himself to be “the one to protect her from the hostility of the world” at Professor Dai's unsuccessful piano recital, and Siyu witnessed Professor Dai's loneliness when she surprisingly got invited into the flat. These events foreshadow the reason why their love for Professor Dai is so special that “they could share with no one else”; they have seen her in a humanly way that no one else does. Even though I find this story depressing, I appreciate how real and honest this story is when it comes to humanity and how solitary it shows we truly are in real life.
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On page five of the story, the author, Yiyun Li, surprises the readers about Hanfeng’s character and identity. Reading the first pages of the story, there are quite a few questions that might be drawn in the readers mind. Why is Hanfeng not interested in dating women? Why is it that when he and Siyu were having tea, “Hanfeng wished that he had made up an excuse,” just to avoid her? On this page, it was disclosed to the readers that he is more interested with his own gender. Hanfeng was “in love with a childhood friend who was dating a chirpy girl” that later broke his heart and made him sought for another companion. This made us a clear understanding why Hanfeng would just fulfill all his mother’s wishes without humiliating Siyu with his lack of interest. On the other hand, the author also lets the readers know Hanfeng’s soft spot- his love for his mother. He “once left but now returned” because his mother was his “home” and where he can express that selfless love he has for her. This story truly showcases complex characters that give us a several meanings of what love is. That love can be in whatever form as long as you are with the people you find happiness with.
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On page two of the story, the two protagonists meet for the first time at a teahouse as arranged by professor Dai. They are strangers before, but the meeting doesn’t help them get more familiar. Siyu chats with Hanfeng in a way “as if her interest in interacting with him could easily fade.”, and Hanfeng doesn’t bother finding any deeper topics to talk. Their lack of interest in each other is obvious. The reader may think the good-looking man and woman, who are “gold boy emerald girl” or in other words, a perfect match, don’t find the other side the right one for marriage. However, as revealed later in the story, the truth is they both have a hidden “special” love that is not widely accepted by the social environment. The writer then uses a long paragraph to narrate Siyu’s early interaction with professor Dai. When she tries to memorize “Great Expectations” which seems odd in the eyes of her classmates, professor Dai just “nodded, expressing neither surprise nor curiosity at the task.” Two lonely souls easily understand and sympathize with one another. Siyu’s complicate love for her professor possibly roots and grows up right from this moment. With this hint, comprehending the left of the story becomes less difficult. -210 words
On page three of the story, the characters of Hanfeng and his mother have been partly showed to the reader. In a beautiful simple way, Yiyun Li explains Hanfeng eventually returns to live with his mother due to losing his “appetite” for “freedom” and for the responsibility of taking care of his mother. Despite of his friend’s suggestion, Hanfeng prefers “a bachelor’s life”. Moreover, Li clearly states Professor Dai is a loner: loathing most activities, only connecting her with the world by “the piano”. When reading this page, I can’t help thinking why they choose to be so “lonely and sad”. Actually, the story’s later revealing the reasons for their exceptional personalities makes me feel more than ordinary human sympathy for them and for their living together to “make a world that would accommodate their loneliness.” Through the lonely and sad story, Li illustrates one kind of totally different companionship and love in the real world; so called “gold boy and emerald girl” is only a beautiful fairy tale.
On page four of the story, the external conflict is based on the attitude of playing piano. When Hanfeng was living in Beijing, he had to practice piano under Professor Dai’s strict management. It is Professor Dai’s theory that Hanfeng must be proficient on one of music instruments because music is “the only trustworthy companion and consolation for his soul “. Hanfeng played piano not on his favor but on Professor Dai’s proud and vanity. Professor Dai hanged the “framed snapshots of Hanfeng, playing in piano contests”. She compelled Hanfeng practicing it boringly days after days, years after years. She did all the means including intentionally opened the windows in the winter. But When Hanfeng arrived in America, he never touched it “even though a rented piano had always been the first piece of furniture to fill an empty apartment in each city he had moved to”. He hated it in his heart. Hanfeng felt it was a real freedom that he needn’t to play it at all. Hanfeng showed his rupture with his mother by the snapshot of him with the Statue of Liberty in the background.
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On page ten of the story, the main conflict between the main characters was dramatically resolved. Hangfeng was a gay, and Siyu loved his mother, so it seemed impossible for them to get marriage; however, each of them happily accepted the arranged marriage at the end because of their secretly reasons. Hangfen thought his marriage could not only protect him from the awkwardness of telling his mother his homosexual tendency but also bring him a suitable company when he was old. Siyu was also happy with the arrangement because she could always stay with Professor Dai as she had wished. Professor Dai would never need to worry about her son would be as lonely as she was. Yiyun Li gives readers an ironic resolution of the story. The marriage in the story was the way to help the three lonely and sad people make a world to accommodate their loneliness. It inspires readers to further think about the meaning of marriage. “There were many ways to maintain a marriage” not only passion. (172 words)
On page six of the story, the three protagonist of the story are been showed clear to the reader. The setting is located at a coffee shop, and the environment of coffee shop is different and too quite, which gives reader feelings of loneliness. Moreover, the page shows personalities of the two main characters: Hangfeng and siyu. After Hanfeng invites Siyu to have a dinner with his mother and him, she wants to meet him in this quite coffee shop and said “it’s quite; I can assure you it’s not easy to find a quite place like this in Beijing”. It does prove of her loneliness. Indeed, in this page author Yiyun Li illustrates the relationship between the three characters, and clearly showed Professor Dai’s interferences, and tried to arrangement his son, and Syui marriage.. That shows an internal conflict of three main characters, and makes a solution to live together and a compromise for life. The author describes the different ways of love, and the traditional philosophy of life is compromise.
On page five of the story, Yiyun Li gave readers a clear picture how Professor Dai’s characteristics—headstrong and controlling—had affected Hanfeng’s character—quiet, obedient and gay. Li mentioned many conflicts between them and how they ended up. When Hanfeng wanted to give up the piano at twelve, so he could play games with boys his age; his mom asked, “Do you dislike piano?” Now at the age 44, he went out with Siyu to fulfil his mother’s wish although he was a “gay” and couldn’t express this to her. Li showed the reader the Limited Omniscient that even in their distant relationship, they still had “the bond of love" between mother and son. When Hanfeng went to his mother’s recital and witnessed the audience criticize her, he wanted to protect her from the hostility of the world. Another activity which surprised me was that they liked to read the same newspapers and discussed noted on the stories that “interested them both” and this hadn’t changed since. Their relationship reflex real life relationships: “parents who want the best for their children, but through oppressive actions only make their children unhappy.”
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On page six of the story, the physical setting where Siyu and Hanfeng met was a power outage coffee shop. To create the atmosphere and two characters-Siyu and Fanfeng- as a gloom and darkness, the author Yiyun Li wrote this sentence, “The inside of the shop was almost pitch-black.” When I think about the situation that they sat in the pitch-black coffee shop, there’s no life as the shop, and it makes me feel gloomy. In the darkness, people can easily hide their feelings, non-verbal expression, and interests. Moreover, words as like, “quiet, there was no one there, sulky, and unhappy,” are indicated characters’ emotion and whole story’s mood. In addition, neither I could understand Siyu’s speaking, “I’m about their only regular customer, but for three years no one has acknowledged me,” nor she spoke about the proprietress, shop’s owner, in the conversation with him. These are the Situational Irony that is different from common sense. I won’t imagine that how people who worked at the coffee shop cannot recognize her whom as the regular customer for three years. This one showed clearly how her character wasn’t typical. She was eccentric in the eyes of her classmates, even readers, too.
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On page 2 of the story, the author establishes the setting and introduces Siyu’s character with the use of symbolism. The first encounter between Siyu and Hanfeng takes place at a teahouse pavilion. Although the location was romantic, the two people seemed more like the weather, “overcast and windy” with a certain heaviness in the atmosphere. Along the story, the author intercepts with Siyu’s interactions with professor Dai, foreshadowing a future relationship of the three people. The author gives a glimpse into Siyu’s eccentric personality and her tragic family history with a social environment. Unlike other girls, Siyu is not interested in marrying early and is instead “trying to memorize ‘Great Expectations’.” The author skillfully uses a book as a symbol of rejection of traditional ideals and expectations to imply a horrible social environment – Cultural Resolution – it is “Great Expectations” that deemed her mother a “daughter of the British capitalists’ loyal lapdog” and caused her to commit suicide. This symbol helps us to deepen the tense mood of the story. Siyu’s obsession with memorizing it shows that her mother’s suicide had a significant impact to her personality. With the detailed characterization placed in a gloomy setting, we begin to understand Siyu and the story to come.
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On page one, the story starts with the Omniscient point of view and from the setting of an arranged date between Siyu and Hanfeng, who are both past the marriageable age. The reader gets a strong sense that all three main characters are lonely from the author’s description of Siyu’s family situation and her relationship with Professor Dai, who is also Hanfeng’s mother. It appears that each character chooses to be lonely for a purpose. Siyu wants to give her father “a respectful distance from his new family,” Professor Dai “masks her indifference to the human species with her devotion to animals,” and Hanfeng tries to live in “a happy enough place” in North America to keep away from his mother in China. However, Yiyun offers the reader and his characters a small glimpse of hope through the skilful use of irony: Professor Dai’s attempts to set her son up with Siyu, although she used to “despise women who grabbed every opportunity to matchmake.” I was impressed by Dai’s willingness to go beyond herself by planning something she would never do and the plan of arranged marriage that we think would create more negative issues, at the end, brings the hopeful opportunity to sympathize each other and to “make a world that would accommodate their loneliness” for all of them. -220 words
On the fourth page of the story Yiyun describes a very unfriendly and disrespectful environment where people just don’t accept people who are different from them. Hanfeng would be “the one the to protect her from the hostility of the world.” But unfortunately he couldn't be the protector for his mother or himself, I believe that’s one of the reasons he stayed in the US for a long time. Another reason should be his mother is always a “headstrong” woman who is cold to “masking their nosiness with friendliness” people, makes everybody feel the distance including the son. Siyu is the exception, there are a lot in common between both of them. That’s why Siyu’s class sent her to give a New Year’s gift the Professor Dai. Years later, Siyu found out the only reason she had kept visiting Professor Dai is simply because she loves Professor Dai not as a kind of loving mother. The story is very interesting because you will never know how much you don’t know about the people around you and how solitude takes place in everyone’s heart.
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On page five of the story, the true character of Hanfeng’s “Dislike a woman” becoming clear to the reader. After four pages full of details about his ignoring to date Siyu and getting marry a woman Yiyun Li give an explanation and surprised the reader about Hanfeng’s character. “It took more than an hour over tea for him to say that he dislike a woman” on this page, the reader understand the internal conflict of the main character “Hanfeng” who was in “Twenty-three, and in love with a childhood friend who was dating a chirpy girl”. This incident broke his heart, and he became alone. He was waiting for another companion from the same gender, but his mother wants him to marry Siyu “Who loves professor Hanfeng”. In this story there are three main and alone characters. The story shows us a complication about characters on the first pages, but a real traditional characteristic, which was really interesting, story for me.
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AMANJOT BRAR
“How two different personalities catch each other’s soul feelings?”
On page eight of the story, the writer Yiyun Li describes the Siyu’s round and complex character.Li demonstrates the main purpose for her “ungrateful and coldhearted” behaviour. At the beginning of page, Hanfeng and Siyu see their lives reality through a bicycle rider and her child like a mirror “he behind her mother, she her father”. Furthermore, Siyu has inner thoughts about her father’s relationship with her: “run after her until she reached the school”, “aware of his love for her and for her mother”. Moreover, Hanfeng can understand Siyu’s “loneliness and unemotional” behaviour due to his own inner situation same as her. He identifies her mind and her inner conflict and thought Siyu is “a beautiful and sad woman” like may be as “his mother had once been”. Also, he realizes the main reason of his mother likeness to Siyu. While reading this page, I feel the inner pain of a daughter without mother. In my thinking, this is a fairy tale of two totally different personalities companionship those have same situation. Also, purity of love in the real world.
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On the page eight of the story, it is the step before the climax. Hanfeng and Siyu's conflicts reveal to show the reader, but it isn't enough to have a resolution. Siyu and Hanfeng both grow up with a single parent, they both face the society gives them pressure to get marry. Their parent's marriage is foreshadowing to their life and singleness, the writer make them share some experiences in common to strengthen the impression to readers how they feel about their parent and their loneliness. Also it makes Hanfeng understand and sympathize Siyu more, he said "A beautiful and sad woman" that Siyu is and "as his mother had once been". This makes a connection to Siyu and his mother. Siyu's secret love is getting clear to show off, " a love she could not explain and did not have the right to claim in the first place." It is leading readers to getting understand the three characters have sadness and loneliness to their life, they will understand each other and make they live together to become possible. (181 words)
On page three of the story, the author has metaphorically explained the setting of the story, characters of Hanfeng and his mother Professor Dai. Gone to U S A to become an engineer in the field of information technology, Hanfeng unsuccessfully faces the severe challenges of dot-com bubble crash and returns back to China to live with his old mother. Here Li indirectly mentions the social and political atmosphere of that time China by a joke of becoming the forty-niners of the new gold rush, which is infact the violent period in the history of America. Prof. Dai has lived an independent life with a little interest in daily routine activities but loves to play piano. She doesn’t interfere in her son Hanfeng’s decisions. Here the author has shown the internal conflict of generations. On one side, Hanfeng meets his mother’s choice Siyu for dating and actually he wants to live a bachelor’s life due to his homosexual nature. Li indirectly mentions about the freedom like a restaurant food and city of San Francisco which is known as gay capital of USA to support this fact. Overall the story is about the loneliness and love of its three characters.
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Manpinder karry
On page one of the story, Yiyun Li introduces three characters to the reader. The story starts with flashback by saying, " he was raised by her Monther , as she was by her father." As a reader, I easily understand that there is something in common between them because both Siyu and Henfeng were raised by a single parent and they both were never married. By the setting of the story." She wonders if his monther, who had sets their date, had told him about that," the author introduces the Chinese culture where Chinese parents arrange their children's marriages. Moreover, the author describes in details about professor Dai's behaviour that why," Retirement is a strange thing for her." She is a lonely older woman who wants to keep herself busy by paying more attention to new students in college to cure loneliness. One thing is clear to me on the first page that somewhere all three characters feel loneliness.
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Do People with same personality get along with well?
On page three of “Gold Boy, Emerald Girl”, Yiyun Li, the author continued to develop the characters. From Hanfeng’s point of view, Siyu had a similar personality to his mother, who “asked him questions to which she seemed scarcely interested in knowing the answers.” His mother was reclusive. When she worked, she preoccupied with her research to avoid people’s nosiness, and after retirement she engaged with playing piano for the goal to play four-hand with him. On the other hand, Siyu was an “eccentric” mentioned on preceding page to memorize the thick “Great Expressions”, to keep her maternal tie. The piano played a bridging role in connecting these three characters from this page; however, it was also a typical prop to cause conflicts between them. Hanfeng was forced to play piano when he was young. Now his mother tried to catch up with him. Siyu first knew Hanfeng from his snapshots of being piano boy and interested in Hanfeng’s fingers for piano at their first date, despite Hanfeng’s no interest on her. I worried if the two odd women could get along with well. The story to the end implied that the similarity of Siyu and Hanfeng’s mom, shared the mere family function, made a smoother transition in interacting with Hanfeng.
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In page eight of the story, both hanfeng and siyu get distracted by the bicycle and remembered their own situation " he behind his mother, she her father." I like how Yiyun indirect both conflict in their meeting to show the common between them as been " half orphan". The narrator gave a glimpse of Siyu " ungrateful and coldhearted" character, because of a love she could not explain and didn't have the right to claim in the first place. When hangfeng looked at siyu face he saw " beautiful and sad woman" and by then he establish the reason for her oddness and never getting married. Also, he found the reason his mother liking Siyu and wanting him to marry her. Indeed, the narrator has perfectly gathered the three lonely people who were looking for a gift from the stingy life. getting them together was the only solution for better life.
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Yiyun Li’s story “Gold Boy, Emerald Girl,” is a very engaging short story. A few external and internal conflicts take place on page six. At the beginning of the page, the conflict start with, “She will rearrange her schedule if she has to,” stated by the Henfeng’s mother. This showed Henfeng’s mother had controlled over Henfeng and Siyu even though they already were grownup and they can make their own decisions for themselves. Yiyun Li showed vividly in the page of six how egotistic a person was Henfeng’s mother. Moreover, the internal conflict occurred when “Henfeng waited for Siyun to find an excuse to turn down the invitation.” This demonstrated in this page Henfeng was not interested in Siyu and for the only reason he accepted to date, Yiyu was his mother’s decision. In fact, Henfeng was hoping to not commence their relationship. These two conflicts were interesting and they made me feel that I am reading a story about reality.-165
On page six of the story, the physical setting is the coffee shop where Siyu suggested meeting before Hanfeng’s dinner invitation. They were sitting in the pitch-dark coffee shop with an unfriendly server, who got them two cups of tea. Siyu said, “This proprietress is a beautiful woman.” This tells me a lot about Siyu’s character. She is quiet, with soft feelings. On the other hand, Hanfeng is the opposite of her; he is used to the life in America. He does not like quiet places and Siyu thought so too. In addition, the conflict of this page is that Hanfeng did not have an interest in Siyu.He was waiting for her to say no to his invitation on the phone, but instead she asked to meet before. It was a yes to the dinner for sure or else she could have made up something to cancel the dinner. There was an irony when Hanfeng’s mother asked him to call Siyu for a dinner and Hanfeng did not want to .However he called her, but in his mind he wanted her to say no; this tells the reader that Siyu was not his type and he does not like her at all._202 Words
Nancy Ngumo
On page seven of the story, the conversation between Siyu and Hanfeng continues to take place at the power outage coffee shop .The candle being lit out of necessity gives the reader a clue that the conversation between both parties will be dull and boring. The lack of power symboliseS, the hidden identity that both Hanfeng and Siyu have but infact,they they try hard to disguise it from each other. The idea of siyu trying to know Hanfeng is a form of internal conflict. The effort made her feel like she did “a regrettable mistake”. After Hanfeng feiled to find a harmless topic of discussion, Siyu asked him if he was aware of his mother’s wish to see him married. He vaguely responds to her that, “I suppose all mothers worry about their children’s status. This shows that he was very comfortable of his ‘identity’ and very unease about explaining himself. In conclusion, the whole conversation was a clear indication that Siyu was not Hanfeng;s type. We can connect this story to the expectation that our society has on us in terms of things concerning gender identity.
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On page nine the author, Yiyun Li gives us clauses from the two paragraphs of two types of conflict: external and internal conflict. Hangfeng talked about the unannounced visit from a woman who claimed that she's his mother old friend and was planning to stay with them for a week, but she left the next day. Professor Dai didn't address the real issue of conflict; instead, she chooses to avoid it by saying she would rather not talk about it. Hangfeng knew that something was not right between his mother and her old friend, but he will never learn the true story. He mentioned that his mother had decided to live with the secret until her death. This shows us the external conflict. Also, when Professor Dai talks to Siya about marriage, that you should not get married if it is not what you want. Moreover, Professor Dai talked about marrying the wrong person which feels like "trapped you would wish for their death every day, but when the wish is granted you would never be free of your own cruelty." This shows that Professor Dai is dealing with internal conflict.
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Something New
The class English 12 of the year 2015-2016 came with a host of new experiences for me, to shortlist a few from the long list is indeed a challenging task. Perhaps the most striking point on that list was when Mr. Brad announced to the class that we will not be using any text books in the duration of the course, this came as something completely new to me. Being educated in the Indian education system, the concept of obtaining education without using a book is a totally alien concept and to be honest I was a bit surprised by this approach. Gradually however, I ended up liking the approach as it was more practical in nature. The accompanying ideas of blogging, group discussion and using audio-visual tools to enhance the understanding of the core concepts of the subject were also something I had never come across in my educational career. This further augmented the variety of new experiences that I had in the class. It would be fair to conclude that the overall style of organization of the curriculum was a new and unique experience on the whole.
Something Memorable
This class has created scores of memories that I will continue to cherish for the years to come. Perhaps the most memorable take home idea that I had was the screening of the movie “City Lights”. It is not my usual practice to audience English movies; this was one of the few English movies that I saw. It had a very profound impact on my understanding of human nature. It changed the very bases of my outlook towards interpersonal relations. The most powerful part of the movie was the climax when Charlie Chaplin meets the girl; it had a very strong influence on me and made the overall experience memorable. Apart from the movie, my debut presentation in the class was also a very memorable experience. I remember being very nervous and having butterflies in my stomach, I thought that I would never overcome that fear. As it turns out, I was wrong. I did overcome my fear; simply by exposing myself to that environment more often. Not only did I overcome that fear but I also started enjoying presenting in groups. On the whole my entire experience over the duration of the course, has secured a special place in my memory lane.
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