Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Reading Questions pg. 80~105

28. Yong Jing is a small town and it only had one street that was two hundred meters long. It had a post office, town hall, general store, library, and school. There was also a hotel that had a dozen rooms. At the end of the town, was a district hospital. the basketball court converts to an open-air cinema when they show the movies. Yong Jing had electricity instead of oil lamps.

29. Four-Eyes' mother was the woman who came to Phoenix Mountain to claim her son. The narrator tells the woman that he is Luo because Four-Eyes writes to his mother and suspects that the narrator is always asking about the suitcase. Four-Eyes' mother is positive that in the future after the Cultural Revolution, the intellectuals will be useful again in the society.

30. It was the seamstress' idea to steal the books. It is interesting because it shows that now, even the seamstress wants to know more about the books.

31. The buffalo was pushed off the mountain to make it look like an accident because the headman wants to kill the buffalo for the feast and it was illegal to slaughter working animals.

32. Re-education has not worked for Four-Eyes. He pretends to go along with the headman and drink the blood of the buffalo. But actually, he does not believe it that it will give him courage. It shows that Four-Eyes is cooperative but looking for an opportunity to help his parents.

33. The sorcerers at the feast were chanting and dancing while at Luo's bedside they were sleepy and did not do anything. I think they were just like performers in the feast and they were paid while the seamstress did not pay them so they did not do anything.

34. The narrator was so excited to find the books and he knows that the books offer more knowledge about human lives. He was angry that the government had denied these books because he wants to know more but these books are banned.

35. The boys want to take the books. But they are also worried that Four-Eyes will denounce them and they will be finished. If they take the books, Four-Eyes will report them to the authorities and the boys might be executed. If they take the books, the whole village will know that Four-Eyes had been hiding books and he won't be able to finish his re-education.

36. Luo wants to take the books to transform the Little Seamstress.

37. The boys are not justified in taking the books because it's considered stealing.

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