prudent (adj.)
syn: cautious
ant: careless
pitiless (adj.)
syn: cruel
ant: pitiful
capricious (adj.)
syn: fanciful
ant: sensible
precarious (adj.)
syn: hazardous
ant: certain
anthracite (n.)
syn: n/a
ant: n/a
livid (adj.)
syn: gloomy
ant: radiant
poultice (n.)
syn: dressing
ant: n/a
Questions
10. The Chinese Seamstress wore pale pink canvas shoes while nearly everyone in the village went barefoot. She had fine features and looked almost noble.
11. Because Luo's parents were intellectuals and Luo had also attended school, he finds the Chinese seamstress below his status. She can not read much. And Luo probably hopes to find somebody of the same level.
12. They had to do dangerous work at the coal mines and they felt that they could die anytime at the mines. It was symbolic of their reeducation because their fear that they could die anytime represents the mental torture of reeducation.
13. The narrator describes Luo's crying as "someone weeping with passionate abandon". It was like crying to release the mental pressure he experiences from working in the coal mines. The narrator was convinced it was Luo because they were the only two newcomers to the mine while the rest were old miners.
14. She wrote a letter to Luo to invite him to their village to tell a story and she sent workers to take their place at the mines. She cancelled the oral cinema and she put him into bed when she saw that he was very sick. She pounded some leaves and applied it on Luo's wrist. She invited four sorceress to cure him.
15. A sincere heart can move even the hardest person. And maybe the flower girl was not sincere enough that is why her mother died.
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