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Chinua Achebe’s “Dead Men’s Path” begins with a young and enthusiastic schoolteacher named Michael Obi. Michael is chosen and becomes the head teacher of the Ndume Central School. He is helped by his wife Nancy‚ and they both immediately start to establish new changes to the school. Their first change is to add a garden and modernize the school; another change is to increase the level of education. One day Michael sees a woman from a local village walk through the garden. A teacher tells Michael
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story "Saboteur" by Han Jin. 1369 words. Saboteur‚ written by Ha Jin exposes a difficult period of China: the Cultural Revolution and its consequences on people ’s life. Through the author ’s skillful use of setting‚ symbolism and the main character ’s dynamism‚ the reader is able to understand the theme of the story that is revenge. The setting of a story has a ponderous influence on the reader ’s perception as it often justifies a character ’s behavior. In Saboteur‚ the story
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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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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 and his wife as well. Finally‚ he is found crushed by a train‚ and Mu Ying lies alone at bus stop‚ deranged. Written from the point view of a naïve boy‚ nicknamed White Cat‚ Ha Jin
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Saboteur The short story "Saboteur"‚ written by Ha Jin exposes a social problem of China: the consequence of Culture Revolution on people’s life. How the faithful educated scholar becomes a merciless assassin. Who is the real Saboteur‚ Mr. Chiu or policeman? Through the author’s skillful description‚ we are able to understand the theme of the story is revenge. And “Saboteur” is irony. The setting of a story has a ponderous influence on our perception as it often justifies a character’s behavior
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September‚ 9‚ 2012 “Saboteur” (2000) by Ha Jin (1956--) 1. Have you ever had an injustice done to you? How did you feel? Did you retaliate? Yes I have had injustice done to me‚ I was very upset because it was my word against and older man and the cops automatically believed him even though he was lying. So then I retaliated and bought him to court and won my case. 2. Do you believe Mr. Chiu’s revenge is justified? Are the effects of his revenge proportionate to his own suffering?
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In Saboteur‚ the author Ha Jin tries to make the reader believe that because Mr. Chiu was falsely charged with sabotage‚ he becomes a saboteur by causing a hepatitis epidemic in Muji to satisfy his immediate need for revenge. He purposefully spreads hepatitis to several restaurants around the police station in hopes to infect some policemen and their families. The build up of anger‚ frustration and feelings of helplessness are in part responsible for Mr. Chiu’s irrational decision to commit such
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SABOTEUR The short story “Saboteur” which was written by Ha Jin is a very interesting and unique story. After performing a close analysis‚ one will find‚ through the description of the characters and the tone‚ that Ha Jin tells the story of anger and revenge. This type of behavior took place within the most unlikely characters. Mr. Chiu was what many would consider a very intelligent person. He taught as a professor at a university. Mr. Chiu claims to be a “scholar‚ a philosopher and an
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"Saboteur." Mr. Chiu unintentionally became the saboteur that he was accused of and there’s no indication that he regrets his choices. Although Mr. Chiu lives in a communist society where the Cultural Revolution was redefining the way of life for many Chinese people‚ there are still some fundamental principles of law and order that have not and will not change. His pride can be confused with arrogance and in this story his pride was definitely a character flaw. However‚ the complex human experience
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