Daan Verhoeff Professor A. Ruh English 250 Essay Assignment #1 03/16/2012 Bringing Two Turning Points Into Broad Daylight. “In Broad Daylight” is about Mu Ying‚ nicknamed Old Whore. She has affairs with different men and is publicly denounced and paraded before the community by the Red Guards who travel from another city and happen to know her bad name. Her dwarf peddler husband Meng Su tries to rescue her from the public humiliation‚ only to be humiliated himself by the Red Guards‚ the spectators
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For the short story analysis I chose “In Broad Daylight” by Ha Jin (146). Over all I believe this is a great example of the human condition that when at our best‚ we can be someone completely different from whom we are in the deep dark night. I will start by hitting the basic questions of narration‚ protagonist‚ settings and conflict. From there I hope to delve into the deeper analysis of what I believe is the take away lesson from the story. The narration of this story is done in the first person
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1 ARTICLE 1 ROBBED OUTSIDE SUBANG HOUSE SUBANG JAYA: An octogenarian fractured his spine after being robbed in broad daylight by two motorcyclists in front of his house in USJ 2 here last week. A.Vadivelu‚ 82‚ who now cringes every time he hears the sound of motorcycles‚ said the drama unfolded at 5.45pm on Feb 13‚ the fourth day of Chinese New Year‚ when he decided to take his regular walk. Vadivelu‚ who is the deputy chairman of USJ 2 and USJ 6 Rukun Tetangga‚ said he had just stepped
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Ha Jin is a contemporary Chinese author and poet who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and has written many books of short story collections. “The Bane of the Internet” is fairly new and part of a collections of stories published in his 2009 book “A Good Fall”. Characters like the eldest sister in “The Bane of the Internet”‚ immigration to the land of opportunities shows the loss and gain of her life. Jin created the character of the eldest sister to dramatize the lives of the Chinese
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situation of Homosexuality in China is quite indefinite‚ although it has been recorded in the dynastic history‚ These days‚ “tongzi” and “geil” used as slang in Chinese language; it is considered of unpleasant used by homosexuals. On other hand‚ we know Eastern culture is different from the Western one on society and people understandably. In the Asian countries often society effects on the way people thinking. The Bridegroom written by Ha Jin is a good example for the Western readers who have chance to
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Ha Jin – The Bridegroom Described as utopian in nature‚ the Chinese culture is often in pursuit for the perfect individual‚ a harmonious and structured society where the citizens as a whole create the ideal culture. In a collection of short stories entitled The Bridegroom‚ author Ha Jin documents this aspect of reality in homeland China. Primarily for the purposes of instruction and satirical verse‚ Ha Jin‚ shows how people are trying to find themselves in a society that focuses on the ‘whole’
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guilty party when both have committed a wrong towards each other? Mr. Chiu‚ a character in Ha Jin’s story “The Saboteur‚” makes the transition from vacationer and victim of saboteur‚ to the very essence and definition of saboteur; Jin’s use of role-reversal in this story conveys the concept of revenge clearly and effectively. “Mr. Chiu and his bride were having lunch in the square before Muji Train Station” (Jin 179). The young couple had taken a trip to Muji on their honeymoon and were about to head
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English 1123 24 October‚ 2010 Literary Analysis on “Saboteur”by Ha Jin If you ever wanted to get revenge on people who have wronged you‚ then you may be able to relate to Mr. Chiu‚ the main character in the short story “Saboteur” by Ha Jin. Mr. Chiu’s revenge is ironic as the conflicts he finds himself in throughout the story. The setting is in Muji‚ China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. The leader of the communist party at the time is Chairman Mao and ruled based
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amazing idea to start the book off with such powerful words. Ha Jin included this as an important inspiration for the character Shao Bin. It leads him to speak out against the unjust ways of his supervisors. “As an artist and scholar I ought to expose those corrupt leaders… A good piece of work should be as lethal as a dagger to evildoers.” These words fuel Bin throughout the entire novel. They are the match that lights the flame. Jin tactfully placed them in the beginning as a form of foreshadowing
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Communist China uses propaganda and force to hide the truth from the public‚ as well as controlling them in a sense. Ha Jin writes Waiting and in this book he comments and portrays communist China in great detail. Waiting’s main character‚ Lin Kong‚ is commonly criticized as indecisive and unable to love. In an interview published in Asia Week in 1999‚ Ha Jin comments on Lin’s inability to love: allegorically…sum up a sort of internal psychological damage to the Chinese… the Revolution was to
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