Directions:
* Read a fiction or non-fiction book (at least 200 pages) about China.
* Write a 1-2 paragraph summary (5-14 sentences) of your book
* Answer ONE of the questions below:
A) What if the setting of your book changed to a century earlier (100 years before the time the book actually took place)? How would it change the plot, conflict and characters?
B) What if the main character (or one of the main characters) had died at the end of your book? Would it have ruined the story for you? What effect would it have on the mood of the book?
Due: Thursday, October 20th
1)The book "Dragon Keeper" by Carole Wilkinson is fictional story about a young slave girl with no name. She was sold to the rude and abusive imperial dragon keeper when she was still a small child. The girl has lived with Lan, the imperial dragon keeper, for over 10 years. Now that she's older, Lan is making her do all his duties. He makes her prepare meals for him, makes her do all his chores, and makes her feed all the barn animals. Pigs and goats are the girls best friends, and she doesn't mind staying and sleeping in their pens at night(in fact she has a pet rat that usually stays in the folds of her jacket); only one creature scares her, and it's the most important creature Lan has to care for(but put the girl in charge). Deep in the pit under everyone, lies two dragons.
ReplyDeleteThe slave girl was running to find onions. Lan warned that if there were no onions in his dinner, she would get a beating. Onions ran out in the store, so there was no choice but to look. She found a few frost bitten onion plants and hacked at them with her blade. The blade would penetrate the frozen ground. She cut off the limp plants hoping it will give enough taste and went off to finish her master's meal.
As the slave girl walked down the stairs on the balls of her feet, she walked as if she might be pricked by a needle and second. She was going down into the pit to feed the dragon. She had a bowl of food in her hand. she put the food down and waited for the dragon to come and eat it, but it didn't. She kept persuading it to eat and finally when it didn't, she took the bowl away.
She came back out with the bowl and went into the barn with a lamp. Her rat named "Hua", which mean blossom, came out and followed her. The slave girl ate the food in the and gave some to the rat. After she finished she lay down to sleep.
The slave girl awoke feeling guilty about taking the dragon's food, and went down to give it some milk. The dragon lifted his head and lapped at the milk. After the dragon finished, the slave girl started to go back up when the one of the dragons let out a roar. Lan and some other workers hurried down to see what's wrong. The girl was confused and terrified at the roaring. She looked for the dragon, it didn't seem to be roaring like the other dragon. Then she saw it. It was lying on the ground.
It wasn't moving at all.
Lan and the workers dragged the dragon for half and hour up the stair to the surface. The dragon was still roaring. He told the girl to get a pot and firewood. Lan took a knife, raised it up, and brought it down on dead dragon's neck. The slave girl couldn't bear watching it and turned away. She asked one of the workers why he was doing this. The worker said, "He wants to get rid of the evidence, The earth's too frozen to bury the corpse. He can sell the heart, the liver, and the bones, but he has to get rid of the rest. The emperor doesn't like dragons, but if he finds out that Lan has fail in his duty to care for them, he'll be executed just like his father."
The next day the slave girl went down again to feed the last remaining dragon. Instead of waiting, she left the bowl there. When she came back, nothing was touched except the meat; it was all consumed. It became a daily meal thing, the slave girl tried to steal as much meat as they can, and fed it to the dragon.
One day she was in the pit when she spotted something in a stack of hay. She went over to it and picked it up in her hands. It was the most magnificent thing she has every seen. It was a large purple stone with milk swirls around it. Then she heard an angry voice, "Don't touch stone!"
She put the stone back and turned around. The source of the voice was no where to be seen. there was nothing to see, because she realized the voice came from inside her head.
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2[B]) If the main character died in this book, the dragon in this story would be AWOL. The dragon would just die of misery. I can only tell you that. In fact, I already gave to a hint. If I told you why the dragon would be useless, I would open up the whole story to you. Now that's not fun isn't it?
HELEN PARK
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1.THE DUNGEON by LYNNE REID BANKS
Bruce McLennan is a Scottish laird who was the master of all that lay in his sight. He is building a castle and the main part of it was the dungeon. The dungeon was built for his one and only foe. He imagines his foe tied up in chains in his dungeon, where he would never see the daylight again. McLennan is a person who likes taking risks and once, he heard from a person that there is a place called China, where they have magnificent things like silk, but it is so far that it would take a year for him to reach there. But in spite of the negative things, he decides to take the journey. When he reached China he joined the military being called a ‘foreign giant’. Even though he liked taking risks, he wasn’t fond of the food in China, but the only thing he liked was ‘tea ‘. One day he visited a poor teahouse and found a little girl named Mudan(Peony in English) and bought her as a slave girl. When he took her to his house he found that her feet were tied so tight that it was so tiny. Peony mother tied her feet because in Chinese culture, rich women have small feet, so when Peony grows up, she will marry a rich man and help her family. McLennan did not like women with small feet so he untied it at once but when he untied it he could see that her feet were in such a bad condition that she couldn’t walk. After some time passed, when Peony’s feet healed McLennan decided to go back to Scotland because he assumed that his castle was done. But one thing is that Peony did not know that it will be the last time she will ever be able to step foot on China again.
2. In my book, both my main characters die, so I will write what would have happened if they lived.
If the main characters lived, it would not have ruined the whole story but it would need more things to make it a clean ending. Even though it would not ruin the story, it would affect the mood because in the original story, it is sad but also a very tiny bit happy but if they lived it would be pure happy and not sad at all. Also it would have been less interesting because it would be same like all the other stories written by other authors.
Ieuan Owen 7A
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I read a book called 'Missee Lee' by Arthur Ransome, a well known British author known for his cleverly written books on sailing. It is a very interesting book mostly because it involves a lot of sailing. This adds a large amount of different vocabulary, some of which make the book ten times as fun for people such as me who self-consciously translate sentences such as “While John rummaged around in the captain's quarters, Nancy was busy scurrying around up on the high poop” (meaning high poop-deck), into 2nd Grade toilet humour, where 'scurrying around on high poop', brings a hearty grin in the least. Also this book doesn't just involve normal, rather boring, sailing, but 'seat-grippingly tense pirate scene' sailing. This adds another element of fun for people with similar interests to me. So over all I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys similar aspects of books to me. Another thing that makes this book interesting is that majority of the characters are all Chinese, and the little English they speak is all in stereotypical Chinese English. For example they don't pronounce their r's, but replace them with l's. Also most of them don't know enough English to know the differences in grammar, providing for more interesting elements.
Now for the plot:
The book is about a group of seven British sailors who are travelling the world in a schooner. The sailors are: Captain Flint, Nancy, Peggy, John, Susan, Roger, and Titty. Captain Flint is Nancy and Peggy's uncle, while the other four are siblings. Part way round the world, off the coast of China, Roger's pet monkey 'Gibber' gets Captain Flint's cigarette and sets the ship on fire! The crew had just been filling up the fuel tank, and had accidentally spilt some on the deck. As you can probably guess, the cigarette makes contact with the spilt fuel, starting up a un-quenchable fire. There is just enough time for the crew to salvage a few things and get in the two small rowing boats, before the ship is up in flames. That night there is a big storm in which the two boats get separated. One boat, with the four brothers and sisters, loses the end of its sea-anchor. This results in them drifting on into the night, and by morning they are in sight of land. Soon after they land their ship on what turns out to be an island. The other boat is spotted by a Chinese pirate junk, and the crew members are taken as prisoners. Coincidentally the Chinese junk crew are part of the community living on the group of island that includes the island that the four siblings moored on.
This island is a very small piece of land broken off from three other much bigger islands. These three islands all work together in a business founded by the leader of the three islands' father. The islands demand money from fellow Chinese for protection from the 'gunboats' – English navy crafts. They also attack any boats with people who might be rich, and loot the boats of plunder and people. They kidnap people who they think they can charge a ransom for.
In a round about way the seven companions end up in the town, as prisoners, where the kidnapped people are bought back. Here they are brought before the leader – Miss Lee or Missee Lee, and the other important people of the three islands. As it turns out the leader of the three islands has had an abnormal past, to say the least. Her father wanted her to have good schooling and so sent her to Hong Kong. From there she was sent to Cambridge in England. Then she had to return home, because her father was near death. After her father died she became the leader of the islands, and couldn't return to Cambridge. This makes her sad because she really loved her schooling. So when the English prisoners arrive she decides to create her own form of Cambridge. She decides to teach the prisoners Latin.
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ReplyDeleteAfter a lot of other events, because of various reasons, Miss Lee decides, that for the good of the islands and the happiness of their people, she will help the prisoners escape without her people knowing that she helped them. She makes them promise though that they won't tell the location or whereabouts of the three islands, in doing so keeping the islands safe from a large fleet of 'gunboats'. After making people very un-suspicious of them trying to escape, by being the legs of a dragon at a dragon festival, the prisoners escape late at night. They bravely attempt sailing through a narrow, rock-full, white water, gorge in a small junk. Amazingly they make it through but only with the help from surprise stowaway – Miss Lee! After rethinking things she decides against joining the prisoners to go back to England and Cambridge, and gets out of the junk to return to her three islands. After this thrilling experience, the seven sailors return to sailing the world and then to England.
I feel that I may have conveyed a very dull feeling, about this book. So I just want to clarify that it isn't so in the least.
Question B (If one of the main characters had died):
In the book I read, no-one really dies. There are a few scenes in the book where someone could have easily died, but it is not officially mentioned. For instance, at one point a Chinese pirate junk attacks another ship, and there is a lot of firing of cannons, but no-one is said to have died. So if one of the main characters died, it would have affected the mood and feeling of the book a lot.
For me, if one of the main characters died at the end of the book, it would completely alter the close to 'happy ever after' ending, which in a way would ruin the end for me. I wouldn't have really minded much if one of the main characters had died earlier in the book, but for one to die at the end would probably have ruined it, because it just doesn't really fit at all with the whole build up and everything to the end.
Throughout the story, most of the main characters are forever saying that everything will be alright. To add to this, nothing that bad ever really happens to the prisoners even. So for a main character to die, it would completely alter the mood and feeling of the book.
Judy 7A
ReplyDeleteLeaving Point by Betty Vander Els
1)Fourteen year old Ruth and her brothers, Benjamin and Simeon came back to their house for Christmas. Ruth and her brothers stayed in a boarding school away from their parents because their parents are missionary. When they arrived to Chengtu where their parents are the police tells them they cannot go back to their school and they have to find a way leave China. Ruth has a secret best friend Chuin-mei. When Chuin-mei’s dad who is a police officer finds out about their friendship, she made her family’s chances of leaving china at risk and also Chuin-mei’s safety.
2B)It would have been really sad if the main character died. I was expecting for a happy ending but if the main character died, I would have been sad and the main character’s family would have been sad. Luckily there weren’t any sad parts in my book. The story was a happy ending so I was very happy. This made me relieved.
Emma Bailey 7A
ReplyDelete1. The book “Daughter of China” by Meihong Xu and Larry Engelman is a true story about Meihong Xu’s life.
Meihong(Beautiful Red) grew up in the Lishi village in the Jiangsu province of China. She went to a nearby village school when she was 7 years old. At the school they taught all the ways of Chairman Mao and everyday the children would recite phrases from “Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book."
Meihong’s dream as a child was to become a soldier and work for the PLA, People’s Liberation Army. Whenever she saw a group of soldiers marching through her village she would gape in wonder at their uniforms and how they marched. Everyone looked up to the PLA soldiers. Meihong studied hard at school and her dream finally came true. She was selected out of many girls in the country to go to the PLA and become a soldier. Military life was hard, they had very strict rules to follow. In the military you were not allowed to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. This was the hardest rule that Meihong found she had to follow. When a handsome American soldier came to China, Meihong falls for him.
When they fall in love and start hanging out, some people notice and it leads to many years of hardship for Meihong. She is imprisoned and questioned about her feelings for the American soldier. She is to never see him again.
If you like stories about determination, justice and romance read this book!
2.B If the main character in my book died I would have been really sad. It would have ruined the story for me because the whole time you got to know the main character really well, and then they just die. I think it would really affect the mood of the book for me because it was all about the main characters survival and hardships and then if the main character died it would seem as if all her determination and strength to try make things fair would just be wasted.
1. The book “ Chinese Cinderella”, written by Adeline Yen Mah, is an autobiography describing the childhood of Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline was the fifth child born. Her mother had died shortly after giving birth to her, which in Chinese culture meant that she was cursed or was bad luck. Things had changed after her father remarried. Originally, Adeline’s name was Yen Jun- ling until her stepmother, Niang, came along and wanted new names for all the children in the family. Niang was especially hard on Adeline and made her feel miserable. From the moment her real mother died, her family made her feel unwanted.
ReplyDeleteOn the first week Adeline attends kindergarten she tops her class. She showed her certificate to her Aunt Baba. This was great news for Adeline because it was the only way for her family to notice her in a good way. Week after week she topped her class. School was the only place where Adeline felt she belonged. All of her friends and teachers accepted her for who she was. She progressed in her studies as time went on.
2. Question B.
If one of the main characters died at the end of the book, it wouldn’t have affected me much. This might slightly ruin the happy ending of the book, which there is little of, but I would just accept the ending for what happened.
Summary of Genghis Khan’s Biography
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Temujin was born with a dark mark on his right hand which generally meant that he would kill a lot of people. His dad said that this would make him a great warrior, but his mom wasn’t so sure.
That was the prologue. The book actually starts with Temujin and his brothers (Bekter, Khasar, Kachiun,and Temuge) riding to a mountain in search of eagle chicks to bring back to their father to hunt with. Temujin and his brothers are very competitive, so when they got to the mountain they all raced to the top. Temujin and Kachiun worked together and got the eagle chicks first. When they get back with the chicks, Yesugei (Temujin’s father) decides that Temujin is ready to travel to the tribe of the Olkhun’ut to find a wife for Temujin. They make Temujin work really hard there and beat him the first couple of days. A messenger from the Wolves (Temujin’s tribe) came and told Temujin that his dad was dying and that Temujin had to come back. Yesugei dies and instead of Bekter (the oldest son) becoming khan (tribe leader), One of Yesugei’s bondsmen (Eeluk) announces himself khan and leaves Temujins family to die in the wilderness. They live in the forest and discover that Bekter is not sharing the food he catches, so Temujin and Kachiun kill him. Their mom (Hoelun) is mad at them for this and she temporarily banishes Temujin. Temujin returns and they find sheep flock herders, kill them, take their weapons and flocks and herd sheep for a while. Eeluk sends his bondsmen to see if Temujin’s family is alive. They find them, attack them, one of the attackers dies, Temujin runs, the rest hide, they catch Temujin, they take him back to camp, torture him bloody,Temujin escapes by crawling into a frozen river, Arslan and his son, Jelme, are still loyal to Yesugei and give Temujin a horse to escape on, these two families form a clan, and that is the end of part one.
Temujin is the leader of this new clan and since the Tartars killed his father, he raids them over and over with a small army he gathered of random herders,and tribe exiles. He goes back to the Olkhun’ut to claim his wife, and a wife for each of his brothers. When they got back, a Chin (tribal Chinese) ambassador named Wen Chao got Temujins tribe to join forces with another tribe, the Kerait. He then goes to try to get the Olkhun’ut to join forces with him. So, Temujin kills the khan and his son and claims the tribe. He goes back to the Kerait with the entire Olkhun’ut tribe at his command. The Wolves agree to join forces with them and they kill an army of a thousand Tartar’s. Eeluk challenges Temujin to a battle and Temujin kills him. So now, Temujin is leader of the Wolves too. The leader of the Kerait runs away, so now, Temujin is the khan of all three of these tribes. He declares himself the leader of the plains. Khan of the Genghis. Genghis Khan.
Question B: It would have been kind of annoying if Temujin died at the end, because he was so determined to bring together the Mongols into one super tribe, but I wouldn’t have been surprised because just about everyone else is already dead. It wouldn’t change the mood to much because it’s already sad and full of death.
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ReplyDeleteThe book is called Forbidden City and this book have many scenes and stuff so I'm just going to type out the important stuff.
A 14 years old boy named Alex Jackson who accompanied his dad for work visited China in the year 1989.
When Alex goes to China the country is very peaceful and quiet. Alex's dad is making an important visit between the Russians and the Chinese people,and Alex explores for the time being. Later on many students in China protested that they do not want any corruption in the Chinese government, then democracy got brutal. Then thousands and thousands of Chinese people barricaded "Tiananmen Square" so that they can hold of the soldiers. The protesters hold off the soldiers for a few days but eventually the soldiers start shooting the protesters. Alex and his dad had to run away from China as fast as they could. Alex's dad's business was cut off, because the Chinese government was getting brutal and more violent every day. Then a huge riot team started to guard the "Forbidden City" from the protesters. Each team was from separated team (division)who have different leaders. They wish to take place and be on the next throne when the remaining emperor dies. Alex and his dad was in a bad situation day after day, they hide from the Chinese riot team. Alex's dad tries to send both of them to Canada, however it was not successful. Then when the story developed eventually Alex gets capture in the middle of the civil war and was separated from his father. From that day he was never seen again. Nobody actually knows what happened to Alex, but eventually his dad moved to Canada, quits his job and never came back to China for that he remembers a bad memory.
B) My story did not tell if the main character died or not it just tells that he was captured by the Chinese government riot team, and then he was never heard of again.
If the main character dies in the book I would be very sad, because he was just an innocent young boy who did not know anything about the China government. It would not ruin the story for me, because I would know that he would have been dead somewhere in the story already. If he did, I would be very sad and I would imagine his dad being very emotional about his son. I think he regrets bringing his son to China.
The book that I read is called the bonesetters child by Amy Tan. In the beginning of the book it is telling us about the story of a child whose name is Ruth. She is living in San Francisco. She is living with her boyfriend whose name is Art. They got connected to each other through one of their yoga classes and she thought that he was gay. Art has 2 daughters named Fia and Sophie. They are living separately from their mom and Ruth is their step mom. When they go to the skating ring, Ruth who is a book doctor, works at making her new book when suddenly the author calls her to tell her that she is fired.
ReplyDeleteIn the middle of the book it tells us about Ruth’s mother and how she grew up in China. We learn that her mother is an ink maker in the village of Immortal Heart. It also is telling us about how her grandfather was killed by the coffin maker and from then on her grandmother has hated the coffin maker for killing her husband on their wedding day. She also drank burning ink so she could not talk and her mouth was stained black for all eternity. After she dies however the people in her house kept on thinking that she was a bad spirit that kept on coming back to haunt them. They hired a fraud monk who stole their money and ran away. Ruth’s mother is an orphan after her grandmother is killed. When she arrives at the Christian Orphanage, she enrolls there as a teacher and she is teaching them Calligraphy. While she is there she meets her first husband. He is one of the scientists who are working to discover the Peking Man who is said that his bones are over a million years old. Her husband gets killed when the Japanese invaded and they all ran away. When they escape she disguises herself as an old lady who has a very serious sickness. So that she can escape to the United States of America
B) What if the main character (or one of the main characters) had died at the end of your book? Would it have ruined the story for you? What effect would it have on the mood of the book?
If Ruth had died in my book the mood would have changed to depression. If her mother had died no feelings would have been hurt. If Art had died you would CRY your head off because Art is the funniest character of the book.
Hey, this is AHNYA!
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My book is called "Homesick, my own story". This is a biography of the author's childhood.Her name is Jean and she is an American that lives in China. Her family members are Lin Nai-Nai, her father, her mother, and her dead baby sister. She was in the middle of the war, but she still have time to visit some friends of her dad's. Of course, they had to go up a steep mountain carried by people. When they get there, the people carried them kept muttering, "Foreign devils" and snatched the money. One day ( she was still at her dad's friend's house), she was told that her mother had something wrong with her leg. That was the bad news. The good news, she (Jean) has a baby sister! She wanted her to be named Marjorie, but her parents named her Miriam. Sadly, Miriam died, and there goes Jean's sister. So they finally went back home when they had to leave China. They were bringing all women and children to the ships and take them to Shang-Hai. (Later Jean's dad came back) So finally, Jean returns to America and lives there forever.
B) If the main character ( or some main character) died in the end of the book?
First of all, if the main character died in this book, this book would never be written, since the author of this book is the character of this book (confusing), second of all, Jean's sister died, so that was sad.
-Ahnya
Saki 7A
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“Saving Fish from Drowning” by Amy Tan, is a fantasy book that teaches you about Buddhism. Bibi Chen was a famous Chinese artist and the board member of BILLIONS of organizations, who immigrated with her father, her two brothers, and her selfish step mother when she was a little girl, to America from China, because everything in China was under communist’s control, and it was hard for Bibi’s family to live there.
She has planned a journey to Burma with her eleven lucky friends. However, after she got murdered by someone, Bibi becomes a ghost and watches her eleven friends veer off and embark on a trail, paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusion and romantic needs. Then, on Christmas morning, the “lucky” tourists rode a boat across a misty lake and disappeared.
Through many curses and plain old human error, the travelers find themselves deep in the jungle, where they meet a little tribe. The people of the tribe were waiting for their leader and the mythical book of “wisdom” that will protect them from the devastating damages and destructions from the military of Myanmar.
2.B. Since my main-character is a ghost (which means she is dead.), I will, like Helen, write what would’ve happened if she wasn’t murdered.
If the main character wasn’t murdered, the eleven friends wouldn’t have had to be lost in the lake and disappear. In fact nothing wrong would’ve happened, because she (main character) was supposed to be their guide. The eleven lucky friends and Bibi (main character), would’ve had an extraordinary trip to Burma, without being cursed and get lost in the middle of nowhere, or get a guide that doesn’t understand them, who ends up being fired.
If the main character wasn’t murdered, this story would’ve been very boring, because it was all about why she was murdered. The eleven friends wouldn’t have had to encounter the tribe because they wouldn’t have done anything wrong if Bibi was around. The tourists wouldn’t have had bad consequences (getting lost in the lake) of doing something exceptionally appalling to the Burmese people.
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ReplyDeleteThe book “An American Teen Journals across China” is a true story about a 13 –year-old girl named Erin Cochran who got the chance to travel all around China! Over her 14 day trip around China she visits many different sites and villages such as the Terra Cotta Army, The Forbidden City, local villages, the Silk Road, Tiananmen Square, and many historical villages. Erin soon comes to realize that China is very different from America. At first she is culture shocked, and a little insure about the place, but she soon starts to get used to Chinese culture and ends up not wanting to leave. She also learns a lot along the way, but most of all she learns how big China really is! She learns this by traveling to many different places within china such as Xi’an, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Dongmen, Taison, Guangzhou, Taishen, and Beijing. Erin is so fascinated by the culture, and the experience of China that she decided to capture every moment, so she writes in her journal about it. This is a story of a trip to China but seen through a 13- year- old American teenagers eyes.
QUESTION B)
It would have been quite sad if Erin died because she was so eager and ready to go to China. She was also such a young and innocent girl with so much exploring ahead of her. If Erin died at the end of the book it would make the book seem gloomy, and pointless. If she had died in the book, then the journal entries that she completed would be of great value. I think the story would definitely be ruined if she had died because it doesn’t relate or make any sense considering what happens in the rest of the book. It would have been a great tragedy if she had died because than she wouldn’t have gotten the chance to write her book. Therefore, I wouldn’t have gotten the opportunity to read it! ;)
This book is about a 13-year-old boy called Young Fu. He and his widowed mother called Fu-Be-Be had just moved to a place called Chungking, in China. Later on Tang Yu-Shu, a master coppersmith, asking if Young Fu would “apprenticeship” him, receives them with a letter. As he is an only child his mother decided to let him go to be Tan Yu-Shu’s apprentice. Young Fu doesn’t know much about the big city, as that is where he has been taken, because he is a shy country sort of boy. He soon learns more about thought, but only little by little. No one told him it was going to be easy but he soon found out “No task into which a man puts his heart is too bad. For the lazy, all work is difficult.”
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If Young Fu had have died in the book, it would have been rather devastating. I really became quite fond of him. I enjoyed reading about his adventures and what had became of him. The master had told him long ago how he trusted him as a son. Then at the very end told Young Fu before he left back to his mother “ I shall recognize you as my son by the law of adoption.” I liked that because he finally had a farther again. I’m really glad he DIDN'T die at the end of the book and I have a good feeling I wouldn’t have been to only person who felt this way.
1. Evelyn Rutherford is beautiful, talented, and rich. She falls in love with a young doctor called Maurice Grey, who becomes a missionary in China. Maurice's sister is Allison, who first disliked Evelyn. Evelyn also has a brother, Richard. Allison is engaged to him.
ReplyDeleteWhile Maurice is in China, he gets shot by a Boxer. He writes a letter to Evelyn telling her that he loves her, and Maurice talked about the time they spent together. Evelyn thinks Maurice is dead and becomes very ill.
Evelyn's father calls a doctor, and that doctor is Maurice! Evelyn gets better very fast. After she recovered, she married Maurice.
CONTINUED!!
ReplyDelete2B. If one of the main characters in the book died, I would be sad and the whole ending would've changed. There would be no wedding and everyone in the book would probably be sad. It wouldn't really ruin it for me since Evelyn was really sick, and I was already sad.
This is Arisa
ReplyDelete1. I chose the book called A Banquet for Hungry Ghost, by Ying Chang Compestine, and illustrated by Coleman Polhemus.
It is a book full of different ghost stories, so I picked one story to summarize. The story that I chose is called Egg Stir-Fried Rice.
Mr.Yue, Fong’s father, and the master of the household had passed away. He was remarried to Madame Peng. Madame Peng was a cruel stepmother who always made Fong starve, by locking her up in her room, and also was a bad wife; she spent a lot of Mr.Yue’s money on dinner parties. She was not even one bit devastated by her husband’s death; instead she quickly took control of the whole house hold, and was now the master. Madame Peng wanted to get rid of Fong, so she has decided that the funeral would follow the old tradition, which was burying Fong alive. What Madame Peng didn’t know was starving and burying Fong alive, would mean that the hungry ghost of Fong would come back to take revenge on Madame Peng. The hungry ghost, not just any ordinary ghost, had the ability to do just about everything. No one could ever possibly survive the revenge of the hungry ghost, not even Madame Peng.
2. B) The main character of the story died, so I would write about if the main character did not die.
If Madame Peng didn’t die, it would ruin the story, because obviously the hungry ghost of Fong did not come to take revenge on Madame Peng. Madame Peng had been so cruel to Fong, and it would not make any sense if the hungry ghost of Fong didn’t seek any revenge. I would have been so mad at the author if she let Madame Peng live, Madame Peng should have been through what Fong had, and she should have to suffer all the consequences. I was so relief when I found out that Madame Peng had died, by the hand of Fong.
Nicole Ford 7B
ReplyDelete1)My book is Where the Mountain meets the Moon by Grace Lin. This is a story about a girl named Minli. Her family is very poor, but one thing they have plenty of are stories. Minli's father always tells her stories, but Minli's favorite is about The Fruitless Mountain. The story tells that long ago the weather was controlled by Jade Dragon. One day, Jade Dragon gets angry at the villagers for complaining about the rain, so she makes it never rain again, sending China into drought and famine. Jade Dragon's children feel sorry for the people, but their mother would not budge. Finally, the children sacrificed themselves, turning into water for the people. Filled with grief and guilt, Jade Dragon too turns into a river for the people, hoping that it might somehow reunite her with her children. To this day, it still hasn't worked, and the Fruitless Mountain remains dry and empty. Minli has a plan to reunite them and end her family's poverty. The only question is; will it work?
2)If the main character had died at the end of the book, it definitely would have ruined the the story for me. It would have affected the mood of the story greatly, turning it from a happy story to a depressing one.
This is Cen from 7B
ReplyDelete1. The book I read was Chu Ju’s House by Gloria Whelan. This story was based on a 14 years old girl who lives with her father, mother, and grandmother. The story starts us off with Chu Ju’s mother pregnant, and how the family wanted a male son, since in China, people are only allowed to have one child, although in some areas there is an exception where a family can have two. When the Baby was born, it was discovered that it was a female child. Chu Ju, who couldn’t let the child be sold to the orphanage, ran away from home so that her family didn’t have to sell her little sister and could have one more chance to have a male child. On her journey to find a home that suited her, she lived on a boat, a silk farm, and at a farmer’s house.
2. If the main character of my book died in the end, she would not be able to fulfill her adopted mother’s last wish before she died, and would probably have become a hungry ghost and haunted their house. Also her “boy friend ( at least that is what I think he is)”, Ling, would have been sad since in the future they would probably have married each other. I do think that if the main character died at the end of the book it would not have been much different than how it really ended. After all, the ending was really terrible. If the main character died, I think it would make the ending a bit more dramatic and readers would actually cry more, so I guess it would change the mood of the book. I do not think that if the main character died in the end of the book it would have ruined the story because this was really a very exciting story. In fact, maybe if the main character were to die, it would be even better.
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Hi it's Hannah Dodge
ReplyDeleteSUMMARY: I read "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson." It is about a girl named Bandit who is Chinese and lives in China. Her dad decides that she, her mother, and him should move to America. Her grandfather helps her find an American name. She changes in to Shirely. When they get there and get her into school nobody talks to her because she can only speak a little English. Soon she finds friends at school and they get her into baseball. For her whole summer she listens to the games that Jackie Robinson plays in.
QUESTION A: If the setting was a century earlier It would ruin the book because Jackie Robinson would have not been born. The plot and the title would have to be totally different. Jackie Robinson is a huge part of the book.
Annella Espana 7A
ReplyDelete1. The book "East of the Misty Mountains" by Alice Poyner, is about an American fourteen-year-old boy named Jeff Anderson, who landed in China during the year 1915, 75 or 80 years back in his present life. What led him to this situation was Jeff's curiosity in his Uncle Zeke's time machine that he experimented in his Uncle's physics lab. As he was wandering around the mountains of China, he encountered a British man named James Fraser, who was a missionary and was trying to spread Christianity to the Chinese tribes, including the Lisu and the Kachin. James Fraser insisted that Jeff should accompany him to his trips, since Jeff had no idea where to go. Jeff wouldn't tell anyone about what really happened though, because he knew that no one would believe him.
As he accompanied Fraser to his tiring and dangerous trips, they experience a lot of events including quicksand, and encountering robbers! Jeff is desperate to go back to his normal life, but knows that there is no way to go back. One day, to make himself feel more at home, he listened to his Walkman Cassette player, which didn't exist yet in the 1915. Suddenly, a much feared man named Liang Tingwu, comes to Jeff riding his horse, ties him, and kidnaps him. Now Jeff is desperate to escape and go back to his normal life.
2.(B) If the main character of the book, Jeff, had died at the end of the story, it wouldn't have ruined it for me. Instead, the story would have no redeeming factor because Jeff is craving to escape from where he is. If he just died at the end, then there wouldn't be a good ending point in the story. The book "East of the Misty Mountains" is a light book and is easy to understand, so if the main character dies, it wouldn't fit in the story. That is only my opinion.
Nicole 7A
ReplyDelete1) My book is called The Bomber's Moon by Betty Vander Els. It is set during World War II which is in 1942, and the Japanese are bombing parts of China. Two siblings, Simeon and Ruth are living with their missionary parents. Ruth, who is telling the story and her little brother, Simeon are then, separated from their family and are sent to India. They are sent with their school class, as their teachers and friends from their normal school are sent to Concentration Camps by the Japanese. This book is about how the two siblings escaped from the Japanese invasion and the brotherly and sisterly love they have for each other.
Question A
If the setting of my book changed a century before, which would be in 1842. It would change the whole story because the time this book actually took place is in World War II, then if it's in 1842, the conflict and plot will be totally different. Also, it would mean that the characters would have another kind of problem and their family wouldn't be separated.
Namton Thammajinda
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Book Report
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My book is “Pearl of China” by Anchee Min. It is about a poor girl living in the Chin-Kiang province of China who has great dreams for the future; she and her friend will aspire to become great people.
Willow Yee is working in the fields of Chin-Kiang all every day. One day she meets an American girl who introduces herself as Pearl Syndenstricker, Willow is surprised that the foreign girl is able to use almost perfect Mandarin. Willow learns that Pearl is the daughter of a missionary who heads the Chin-Kiang Church. From that day on they became great friends, because they share similar views of the world. Pearl moves to Nanking to be a teacher at Nanking University, Willow is really sad that Pearl is gone because Pearl is the only real friend she has. Willow stops working in the field and studies really hard, because she wants a job in Nanking so she can be with her friend Pearl. Willow somehow is accepted as editor of the Nanking Daily, a fairly popular newspaper in Nanking. She is very happy with her job and she plans to make the Nanking Daily the best newspaper in all of South China. Willow’s friend, Pearl starts her career as writer. Pearl wants to write about China to have Americans find more about this amazing place. Her dream is to have Chinese-style books be written in English for all to read. Both girls work hard for their dreams and goals; will they succeed with their dreams and goals or will it all come tumbling down?
2) Question B
In my book, both of the main characters died in the end, because of old age. If they had died earlier on in the story, I think it would have ruin the story, because the whole theme of the story is "work hard for your dreams and you will have success". If the main characters of the books died because of unnatural causes, it might change the mood of the book from "happy ending" to "sad ending". I would actually prefer it if the story had a sad ending, because it would create a tearful mood, which will make the story more meaningful.
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ReplyDeleteMy book was Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie. This book was about 2 boys , Lou and Ma ( also known as the narrator ) who were sons of doctors. And when Mao Zedong became chairman they were sent to be reeducated at Phoenix Mountain because their parents were declared "enemies of the people".There they meet their friend Four-Eyes, who is also being reeducated, and both of them fall in love with the tailor’s daughter (The Little Seamstress). Ma and Lou finds out their friend Four-Eyes have been hiding foreign books that were forbidden. With these books Lou and Ma try to teach The Little Seamstress, who they consider uncultured. Lou and The Little Seamstress develop a romantic relationship with Ma becoming jealous. With the relationship results in The Little Seamstress unwanted pregnancy. Ma helps The Little Seamstress arrange an illegal abortion when Lou was away. As the story develops Lou’s attempt to educate The Little Seamstress backfires. Both Lou and Ma are heartbroken by what had happened.
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It would have ruined the story for me because it has just the right amount of sadness in the story already but if Ma or Lou died it will become too depressing. The book's ending was sad because it's not like a fairy tale when everything turns out right. Everything turn out bad for both the main characters. If one of them died it would become an incredibly depressing book.
Pear 7B
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1. 1. My book is called the Golden Buddha. It is the first novel from the Oregon files series book. The background is set on March 1959; the Dalai Lama prepares to leave Tibet. The Dalai Lama escaped to India where he plans to reside safely, until the time comes when peace returns to Tibet and he can take his rightful place as religious leader of his people. While the Dalai Lama escaped to India the Golden Buddha, an ancient statue, was stolen. The Golden Buddha contains maps and records related to Tibet’s oil reserve. The ship called the Oregon appears to be the latest junk ship, but actually inside was equipped the most computer technology and weapons system. Juan Cabrillo, the captain, and his expert crews were hired by the CIA to bring the Golden Buddha back to Tibet. They join to the secret auction in Switzerland. But at the auction for the Golden Buddha, a wealthy man named Ho who worked for a software billionaire came and won instead of the Oregon. So they planned to trick the billionaire and Ho from getting the Golden Buddha. But Ho found out so his acquaintance named Rhee hired a police detective named Ling Po. So Ling Po tried to follow every steps the Oregon went. So at the end Po caught the leader’s team named Juan Cabrillo but Cabrillo didn’t go to jail because Cabrillo ever saved Po’s life. The Golden Buddha was finally returned to Tibet.
2. I don’t think that US, Russia would interfere China – Tibet incident .Because during 1900, US. was in a reconstruction after the Civil War Era and entered to the industrial revolution era. US. that time has not gained power over other countries yet, so I think the Americans don’t want to hire the Oregon to do this mission or interfere with the Tibet and China incident. Russia was also in the industrial revolution era and the social labor party, which is the origin of Marxism, was gaining their power in Russia . I don’t think they want to interfere Tibet that time too. China had to face the eight nation’s alliance invasion after the Boxer rebellion damaged the foreigners’ properties in China and China had to compensate them. I think it may be the right time for Tibet to separate themselves from China, if their military power is strong enough.
Sam 7B
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Book: The Hunting Of The Last Dragon
I read the book "The Hunting of The Last Dragon. This book technically starts when Jude is telling his story of him hunting a dragon to a monk name Brother Benidict. He starts his book in the book with him in his house with his family. He takes care of his families swine. He was going to go to Rokeby a village quite close by his village, so that he can get a new bow and arrow. When he gets to Rokeby he sees a fair which looks interesting to him but he needed to get his bow. After he got his bow he had extra money so decided to go to the fair then. At the fair he went in to a tent showing sword fighting. In that tent he gets picked for a demonstration by Tybalt (the sword fighter and owner of the fair) and has to stand still while Tybalt swings the sword around him very fast.
On his way out he sees a tent advertising a beast maid (maid is what they call women the whole book) so he pays and goes in. Then he meets "Lizzie Little Feet" who becomes important later. He finally goes back to his village to see that i was burned down, this makes him sad and he goes to sleep on a hill. When he wakes up Tybalt's family is around him and are trying to help him but he refuses and then Tybalt knocks him out and takes him.
During his time with Tybalt he makes friends with Lizzie, who's feet are small and curved in and learns that her real name is Jing Wei. Then one day Tybalt's son, Richard abducts Lizzie and Jude takes her and runs away. They hear lots about dragons and then nothing important happened for about 100 pages till they met Lan, an old Chinese lady who Jude did not like. She mending Jing Wei's feet and told them about how to slay a dragon and gave them gun powder to blow the dragon up.
As they are about to leave someone who is hurt comes in and needs help so they ask them for the donkey for payment to heal. Then Jing Wei and Jude go to an islandish thing that the book didn't describe well enough, near the dragon's cave. Jin Wei made a kite with a silk dress and put the bomb powder with flint and iron in it and flew it near the lair. The dragon breathed fire on it then it blew up and Jude stabbed it for the last blow. Then it goes out of the story and to the monastery that they are at and Jude and Jing Wei get married.
2. If Jude had died at the end of this book, I don't think it would've changed the story much. If he had died against the dragon though then I think that would've made the story better. Also if Jin Wei had died at the end it could've made the story better. I think this because then in the last few pages it would show how the 2 characters develop without each-other.
Sam 7B
Sam
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Hannah Huff
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1.) My book was set in the 1300s in England. A dragon is destroying entire villages and killing many people. The main character is Jude. His family and village were destroyed by the dragon. Jude starts wandering and a family in the circus let him stay with them temporarily. There he meets the other main character, Lizzie Little-Feet. Her real name is Jing-wei and she is a show at the circus. In this time period, most English people have not seen Chinese people and Jing-wei is Chinese. The people that saw her called her a demon and were afraid to touch her. After a while, Jude sets Jing-wei free and they go journeying together. Once they had journeyed for a few days, they came across an old Chinese woman and she tells Jing-wei how to kill the dragon.
Jude does not know what the substance that they will use to kill the dragon is, but that is because that it is invented by the Chinese. We now know it as gun powder. The blast itself would not kill the dragon, but they put sharp shards of metal in the dust so that when the powder went off, the shards and knives would go flying everywhere with enough momentum to severely hurt the dragon. The monster’s lair was in the middle of a cliff, so Jing-wei made a kite (another Chinese invention that Jude had not heard of) out of her silk dress. They flew the kite in front of the dragon’s lair in hopes that the dragon would mistake it for another dragon. Their hopes were fulfilled. The blast did not fully kill the dragon and Jing-wei did not want to leave it suffering, so Jude took a sword and plunged it through the beast’s heart, though not before it managed to burn him fairly bad.
Hannah Huff
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After killing the dragon, Jude and Jing-wei covered it with stones and left. After some time of travelling, the two started hearing rumors about the dragon being killed. Some people said a brave knight did it and some people said that there was an avalanche and the rocks killed the dragon. Eventually, the two came to a monastery and Jude tells the Abbot all that they had done. The Abbot was very interested and asked Jude to tell this story to a scribe so that the world would know what Jude and Jing-wei had done. The scribe’s name was Brother Benedict, and he swore to the Abbot that he would write down everything that Jude would say. Sections of the book have nothing to do with the story because it is simply things Jude told Brother Benedict and Brother Benedict wrote it down.
2a.) If the book had been set one hundred years before it was, Jude might never have met Jing-we. Then there would be no story. Jude would not have had the gunpowder to kill the dragon. While he still might have lost all of his family, he would not have found Lan, the old Chinese lady because Jing-wei had found her in the first place. Jude would have not gone looking for the dragon for it was Jing-wei who encouraged Jude to come with her to kill the dragon.
1a) My report is on a fictional book named “Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society” by Adeline Yen Mah. It is about a girl called Ye Xian who lives with her biological father and evil step-mother in Shang Hai during the times before and during World War 2. In the beginning,Ye Xian wanders over to a magic show on her way to her aunt's place. The show featured three boys doing tricks, acrobatic acts, and playing musical instruments. One of the boys gave her a business card, and on it was the name and address of a martial arts academy called the Dragon Society of Wandering Knights.When she reached Big Aunt's house that night, she was greeted by not only Big Aunt, but a stranger too. It turned out that the stranger is her aunt's friend; Master Wu visiting to tell Big Aunt that her godmother has broken her leg so Big Aunt has to go take care of Liu Nai Nai, her godmother on Nan Tian island. That afternoon, Master Wu gave Ye Xian an English name, which is “Chinese Cinderella”, or CC for short. Ye Xian got her dad's permission to stay at her aunt's house for the night, but the on the next day, she was slapped and choked by her stepmother for not asking her permission to stay. CC's stepmom would have killed her, so CC had to bite her. Her dad was very mad at Chinese Cinderella, and so he kicked her out of the house. CC then remembered the show and the boy's card, so she hurriedly ran to the park where the show took place and found the three boys. CC begged their teacher (Grandma Wu) to let her stay at the academy, and because Big Aunt's godmother is Grandma Wu's friend and Master Wu is her son, she excepted CC into the academy.
ReplyDeleteChinese Cinderella found out that the boy's names are David, Marat, and Sam and that they all have different backgrounds but in one way or another they are all orphans. CC also learns that the Dragon Society of Wandering Knights is an organization of agents trained to help the Americans fight against Japan. CC would like to join the organization, but she must first train. After months of training, CC finally gets a chance to join. She must first go through a series of complicated matters, like consulting a book that has the answer to everything. After all of the steps, she decides that she will become a member of the Secret Dragon Society. So, CC, David, Sam, Marat, and Grandma Wu goes on missions like aiding Jimmy Doolittle's troop of air bombers bomb Japan and getting Marat's brother and four other American bombers out of the Bridge House; a big prison in Shang Hai, or as the prisoners call it, “hell on earth”. During these missions, CC has many problems with her family, and after the first mission, Master Wu came back from Nan Tian island bearing the news that Big Aunt died in an attack from the Japanese troops.
2b) I would have been crestfallen and discouraged to read more if CC died, because this is a book that can have many more sequels that continue Chinese Cinderella's adventures that I look forward to reading. The book would have been ruined for me, because CC's death just does not fit in with the book, and she is a very good person. Also, her death would be a big loss to the society because she has a lot of experience and has done more than a lot of good deeds for America and China. The mood of the story would definitely change from joyous and triumphant to extremely crushed and disappointed.
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Book Summary :
1. My book is called the Golden Buddha. The background is set on March 1959; the Dalai Lama prepares to leave Tibet. The Dalai Lama escaped to India where he plans to reside safely, until the time comes when peace returns to Tibet and he can take his rightful place as religious leader of his people. While the Dalai Lama escaped to India the Golden Buddha, an ancient statue, was stolen. The Golden Buddha contains maps and records related to Tibet’s oil reserve. But in 2003 the ship called the Oregon appears to be the latest junk ship, but actually inside was equip the most computer technology and weapons system. Juan Cabrillo, the captain, and his expert crews were hired by the CIA to bring the Golden Buddha back to Tibet. They join to the secret auction in Switzerland. But at the auction for the Golden Buddha a wealthy man named Ho who worked for a software billionaire came and won instead of the Oregon. So they planned to trick the billionaire and Ho from getting the Golden Buddha. But Ho found out so his acquaintance named Rhee hired a police detective named Ling Po. So Ling Po tried to follow every steps the Oregon went. So at the end Po caught the leader’s team named Juan Cabrillo but Cabrillo didn’t go to jail because Cabrillo ever saved Po’s life. The Golden Buddha was finally returned to Tibet.
2. I don’t think that US, Russia would interfere China – Tibet incident .Because during 1903, US. was in a reconstruction after the Civil War Era and entered to the industrial revolution era. US. that time has not gained power over other countries yet, so I think the Americans don’t want to hire the Oregon to do this mission or interfere with the Tibet and China incident. Russia was also in the industrial revolution era and the social labor party, which is the origin of Marxism, was gaining their power in Russia . I don’t think they want to interfere Tibet that time too. China had to face the eight nation’s alliance invasion after the Boxer rebellion damaged the foreigners’ properties in China and China had to compensate them. I think it may be the right time for Tibet to separate themselves from China, if their military power is strong enough.
Folk
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1.) I read a book called Shanghai Pudong Miracle. It was written by Zhao Qizeng and Shao Yudong and was translated by Lin Wusun and Zhang Qingnian. It is an information book about Shanghai Pudong.
After China opened their country to the rest of the world, China became a fast growing country. Since foreigners are spending their money to build businesses in Shanghai. Shanghai is one of China’s busiest cities in the whole country. Shanghai’s Pudong developments are brilliant and the economy is growing every day. Pudong is also filled with chaos, excitement, and it never sleeps. Many people think that Shanghai is a big city and have little trees, but Pudong’s development goes hand to hand environmental protection. In 2010, there’s a world expo in Shanghai which made more money flows in to China. With a great amount of money that they gain, Shanghai improves their city. For an example, Shanghai can change a piece of lands with grass and trees to cities with trees in 10 years. Because of their fast growing economy, more and more people from all over the world are interested in spending money in Shanghai. The more money Shanghai gets, the richer the city becomes, and the more people will spend more money on Shanghai. Shanghai is a city where almost everybody is well educated. The people that live there can speak English. Since the education in Shanghai is good, more and more people each year will go to Universities in Shanghai.
2a.) My book has no main character. If this story has taken place 100 years earlier, the buildings would be older looking. There might be more trees, because people back then didn’t that much land back then. People these days chop down trees to make space for people to live. There will also be more farming than this, because to own your own business 100 years ago, it would have been hard. It is hard, because people back then aren’t that rich as they are today. There will be more wild animals, because people there are more trees and forest. People will act differently too. 100 years ago, Chinese people might be more in religion than they are today.
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1. The book How Wise Were the Old Men, written by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, is the story of a Chinese man who could make the sounds of many kinds of animals. On the day, when his son, Meng Hu, was about to be born a tiger, wolf and other animals acted in a weird way at Hao Shou’s house. Wise men came to Hao Shou and told him that they could feel the bad power coming from Meng Hu. When Meng Hu grew up, he started to hide in the bushes and make animal’ sounds. It surprised many neighbors.
Because he was interrupting them so much, he got kicked out of the village and had to live in the mountain. He still tricked a lot of people who were traveling. He always made animal’s sound. Eventually, the King got really annoyed, so he put Meng Hu in jail. Then, Meng Hu got a really awesome idea to get out of the jail which was ……
2.b) I think it would be more exciting if the main character died because it would make the story more charming. Since Meng Hu is escaping from the jail, I think his dying matches with the story more. If the main character actually dies, it should be when Meng Hu is escaping. The police find out, shoot him in the leg, and he dies from losing too much blood. However, I still think that the story was fine.
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This is Tata Laohajaratsang
ReplyDelete(1) The book that I chose for my book report about China is called The Spider’s Web. It took place in Hong Kong. The book was written by Adrian Tilley. It was a book about great friendship. The main Characters were Jeff Lee and Kathy Kwan.
About the characters, the first was Jeff. He was a 17 year old boy that lived his normal life until one day, he noticed that his parents had known about this man-made disease and that was the reason that got his parents caught by the AFS troops. Jeff, however, was able to escape. With him, he carried documents that would totally blow-up the city. Trying to help his dad, he needed to take the documents that his dad gave him, out of the city. Kathy Kwan was a teenage girl whose mother got kidnapped by the AFS troopers. Her dad also got attacked by one of the AFS troopers and went missing. During the public riot about this disease, Jeff and Kathy accidently met as they were running away from the AFS troops. On their way, Jeff and Kathy met a street boy named “Hung ” while an underground resistance group of people agreed to help them get out of the country. The ending of this book was an unfinished ending because Jeff and Kathy were still alive and Hong Kong was saved, but still we didn’t know what would happen to Hung and the disc that he helped Jeff take out of the city. I like Kathy’s last words “What will be, will be.” This is because it meant that “whatever happens will happen.”
(2) If one of the main characters died in this book it would be a tragic ending. It would definitely ruin the story because Jeff and Kathy worked very hard together and sacrificed their lives in order to save their beloved country of Hong Kong. However, instead of ending the way it is (unfinished), I would rather see the book ended happily with Hung being able to take the disc out of the city.
Carnia♥
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1.) My book was called Bound, written by Donna Jo Napoli. It is about a child called Xing Xing, who is living with her Stepmother and her Half-Sister, Wei Ping. Xing Xing's father died recently, and her mother died a few years ago. Once her father died, Stepmother appointed her to be like a slave. They called her “Lazy One”, but sometimes, they were kind to her. Stepmother wants Wei Ping to get a husband soon, and in China, girls with small feet are more attractive, so Stepmother did the procedure of the foot binding. Wei Ping's bones are destroyed and rearranged to make the feet smaller. She is in great pain, and needs Xing Xing to do everything for her.
Xing Xing is very good at calligraphy, a Chinese writing. She also has her own pet in which she calls “Mother Fish”. She believes that the fish is the reincarnation of her mother. Xing Xing struggles not having any friends, except for Wei Ping, and having to do everything for Stepmother and Wei Ping. This book is a Chinese version of Cinderella.
2.) If Wei Ping, the Half-Sister of Xing Xing died, it would have ruined the story for me because she is also one of the main characters of the story. Because this is a Chinese version of “Cinderella”, Wei Ping is the Half-Sister which Xing Xing serves and take cares of. If she dies, Xing Xing would be the only child of Stepmother and I think Stepmother might then treat her like a slave, still. The mood would change, by being sad to being normal. In the book, Wei Ping experiences lots of pain from the foot binding, which Xing Xing feels sad for her. If Wei Ping dies, there won't be any sadness from Wei Ping anymore. Also, Wei Ping is like the Stepsister in “Cinderella” where she would try on the shoe (which fell from Xing Xing's feet at the cave festival) when the Prince comes. If she dies, there won't be any other girl that will try on the shoe and wanting to be the wife of the Prince. It would really ruin the story.
Sophia
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Syrah Cheng, the girl who every girls wish to be. Having their own jet and mansion. Nobody outside the family knows what contains inside Syrah’s life. Having her favorite and loving nanny moved away after years of hiding from the Red Guards. Syrah was living a sad life for a period of time when the secret was revealed that her mom was adopted and that her real grandmother had died. She goes on a search with Lillian, a girl at school who became her friend after Age, Syrah’s best friend started hanging out more with his girlfriend. Syrah also has a dream to be a professional snowboarder but after the avalanche that almost killed her, her parents forbade her to go snowboarding ever again. She finds herself in a bad position when Grace and Wayne, her stepsister and stepbrother treated her like she was a stranger. Can she become best friend with Age, becoming a professional snowboarder and find out about the deepest and darkest secret of her mom’s life during the time Red Guards took over?
Sophia
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If the story had taken place 100 years earlier, Syrah would be a very poor girl. She would be hiding from the Red Guards and maybe she would die because of the snowboarding avalanche. All because of the technology and how there isn’t a rescue team yet during that time. She would be buried under the snow forever and never got found. In the story, she was found by the rescue team searching for her walkie-talkie signals that she had carried with her.
Hannah Douglas 7A
ReplyDelete1) I read the story "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan. This is one of her most famous stories of all time.
This is mainly based on a club called the Joy Luck Club that Jing-Mei's mother originally made in Kweilin. The mother, Suyuan made the club when the Japanese were attacking China. Suyuan made the group so that she could be happy with the other women in the sad times. Then, one day, the Japanese attack Kweilin, and Suyuan has to leave everything behind. Even her two babies.
Suyuan decides to leave everything behind in China and moves to America. There, she has Jing-Mei. Soon, Suyuan passes away, and Jing-Mei learns of her sisters that her mover has left in Kweilin.
2)If my character would to die in the end of the story, it would change the story completely. It would be a very sad death, because she just found her sister. It would totally ruin the story for me, and I would hate Amy Tan for make her die. I love the ending of the book and how it ends happily.
Jae Jun :D
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My Summary
A boy name “Jeff”. He has an uncle that is a scientist. He made a creation. His creation was a “time matching.” Jeff was going to test out his uncle’s experiment. So presses some buttons and turn some knobs, then he went back in time. He was hoping for a nice trip was wanted not to be that far from the year 1967.Jeff goes in the time machine and goes 100 years back from 1967. Now he is in January, 1867 in Hangzhou, China. When he first arrives in China, in 1867, he think that the time machine has gone wrong was waits until his uncle fixes the time machine back. But on the streets, all of the Chinese people were looking at Jeff. A boy with white skin was just so interesting to the Chinese people. He soon meets a young kid that knows how to speak English. That kid takes him to a different man who can also speak English. His name is “Mr. Taylor.” He knows how to speak English because they are missionaries that went to Europe and came back. This is a book about an American kid that goes into China 100 years ago after an accident using his uncle’s time machine.
My Answer
B. If the main character, Jeff, died at the end of the story I think it would be very sad and confusing because, if Jeff died then (to be scientific) the time-machine mechanics would he a crazy mess. Since it is the past, if he died his family would become really messed up. The family chain would be broken and when his parents had Jeff he would just be nothing/dead when his mother would have given birth to oblivion/dead 13+ years old (including the years he spent in China) as a dead person in his mothers stomach. There are many more reasons why this “scientifically” wouldn’t make sense but this is one idea. If he died, then story would be like this. A boy went to China 100 years ago. He wanted to go back to the normal world. But he died. It would be VERY sad, an unexpected goodbye to your family. His family would think like if he had gone somewhere and he never came back because he died 100 years ago.
Reuel Ng
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“The Dungeon,” by Lynne Reid Banks
“The Dungeon” is a book set in the medieval ages, in China and Europe. The main character, a Scottish laird named Bruce MacLennan, is a man who has lost everything he had held dear to him. Once a gentle, caring, good laird, he becomes instead a cruel, short-tempered tyrant bent on revenge on the man who had taken the lives of his wife and children. The man’s name is MacInnes. MacInnes is MacLennan’s neighboring laird. The two lairds had had a conflict, in which MacInnes’s men had overtaken the home of MacLennan and killed MacLennan’s two children, then carried his wife away, who soon died of the fever. The conflict had settled down, and MacLennan turned his attentions to the building of his new castle. This castle was to have a dungeon in it, for the sole purpose of imprisoning MacInnes once MacLennan had captured him. While the castle is being built, MacLennan decides to go on a vacation to someplace. Eventually, he hears of a place called Chi-na, and about its goods, especially silk. He decides to visit this Chi-na place as his vacation.
MacLennan set out for Chi-na, his journey taking almost a year. In China, he wanders around and watches the people, who are afraid of him. Eventually, he finds and becomes friends with a group of wandering soldiers. He follows these soldiers around to many places. At one of the many inns that the soldiers visit, MacLennan sees a young girl named Peony. The girl reminds him of his children, who he had lost. Seeing that the girl’s parents treated her poorly, he buys her for a large gold coin. He finds that, in Chi-na, many women bound their feet to make them look smaller and more beautiful. Peony’s parents had done the same to her. Seeing this, MacLennan became angry and tore off the bindings. Eventually, her feet heal, and Peony becomes very grateful to MacLennan.
Peony becomes MacLennan’s slave, and a memory of his children, as he continues his travels. However, he treats her as he believes is just for a slave, and in a way he thought would demonstrate strength. In other words, MacLennan did not treat Peony very well at all. Peony stays loyal, though, through all the abuse she receives. Time passes, and MacLennan’s adventure comes to an end. He sets out for his home, to Scotland, with Peony, where his newly built castle and dungeon await. He starts to hatch plans to abduct MacInnes to his dungeon. Little does he know, this leads to the breaking apart of his relationship with Peony.
Reuel Ng
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What if the main character had not died at the end of your book? Would it have ruined the story for you? What effect would it have on the mood of the book?
In this book, both MacLennan and Peony die. If they had not died, the story would not have been ruined in my perspective. However, I think I liked it better that they had died, as it added more emotion to the story. If they had lived, the end could be much happier, with MacLennan ending up in a perhaps better relationship with Peony, perhaps with her as his foster child, but I think that it would not have had as strong of an impact to the reader. The death of MacLennan also expresses the moral of the story more strongly to the reader, in my opinion.
Ryan 7A
ReplyDelete1)The plot of The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling is that seven test-tube siblings, born to a traitorous Serbian scientist, are scattered across the world. They have to struggle to find meaning and purpose in a world that has gone far into a crisis. That crisis is kept from becoming an apocalypse by three competing global powers: Acquis, The Dispensation, and the last surviving nation, China. The sisters line up on different sides and try to save the world in their own ways on separate teams. But when mayhem arrives as expected, including empire-building, Antarctic Molding , archaeological microbiology, Chinese bubble ecospheres and desert firefights they realize they cannot fight the crisis alone and must join together so save the world from a catastrophe. This summarizes the main plot of the book and what transpires throughout the story.
2A) I think that if this book was set in the 1960s (instead of 2060) it would not be necessary or it would be preparation for disaster and it would have to be a series in which there would be preparation for disaster (book1) then more preparation and the disasters start at the end of the book (book 2) then a book of disasters and towards the end the remaining people must save earth or decide to move to another planet (book 3). Also some of the characters would likely be changed to other people like hippies because it is in the 60s and they would be aware of the decline of the ozone layer and the rise of the ocean due to global warming and the melting of polar icecaps. Also, they would have to show everyone else that they knew what they were talking about and that the world is really dying and they need to do something to stop it.
Willieeeee 7A
ReplyDelete1.) The book "Empire of the Sun" by J.G. Ballard is a historical fiction book about a British boy who was raised by a British family in Shanghai, when is life is turned upside down by the Japanese invasion on December 8, 1941. After the Japanese invade the British controlled areas of China, he is separated from his family and is left homeless. Over time he tries to scavenge for food and other necessities to survive, until he decides to later intern at a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. He tries to reconstruct his former live, and develops admiration for both American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war has finally ended, he gave up everything he knew and had in an attempt to find his parents.
2A.)If the setting of the book changed to a 100 years later, the book would dramatically change. There would be no World War to worry about and Japanese invading and taking you to confinement camps. It would just be a peaceful life with some British living in Shanghai (if they did live in Shanghai back then). I think the book wouldn't be as interesting because you I not know any significant events that happened around 1841. I guess you could find something to make the story interesting, but the fact that it actually takes place during World War II makes it really interesting. There characters would be a few characters changing because one of the characters in the story was a Japanese pilot/troop who befriended James Graham (the British boy). If the Japanese hadn't invaded, then he wouldn't have befriended that Japanese boy because of course, he wouldn't be there in China.
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1. The book I read was “A Piece Of My Heart” by Keith Walker. The book was about, twenty-six American women who served in Vietnam during the war. Obviously I’m not going to talk about every one of their stories but I will sort of highlight what happened mostly. Lots of them were nurses but some of them fought. As the title suggests this book is about how the war affected them and how they never felt the same after it. So basically its 26 stories in one book. Anyways so all 26 of these women had been in the war for a certain amount of time and at the beginning of the book it says that there were a couple others but their stories were to gruesome to put in the book.(this is sort of hard to write much more because there’s to many stories to detail all of them and there’s not much else to write about.)
2. The book wouldn’t have changed much seeing as it is 26 different stories, after someone died it would just move on to another story. I do think that if any of the characters had died the book wouldn’t have been the same because it’s supposed to be emotional as in what they have gone through and how they have to live after that, not what they had gone through and how they died afterwards. With some characters like the veterans though, sometimes it would’ve fit if they had died because they are the ones fighting and its more emotional, but if it’s the nurses or something then it wouldn’t make much sense to add in how they died and it wouldn’t make sense that they died because then the author would have to write about the persons experiences afterwards when they are dead and that would make no sense because they are dead, but I think if the people on the battle field died then that would’ve been fitting.