Hist 3390 – Memories of Peking: South Side StoriesEssay Preview: Hist 3390 – Memories of Peking: South Side StoriesReport this essayNatalia Nogueira800413812HIST 3390Book CritiqueJuly 12, 2011Memories of Peking: South Side StoriesWorth to talk about every single story of the book. The five of them represents the life of a little girl full of ideas and interest in life. The book describes the five stories of Peking from the vision of a little girl. There is a really big difference from the view of a child than the view of an adult. Main differences will be discussed below.
The curious thing about the book is how the author writes on the view of a little girl for that specific time. When reading through the book it really feels that a little girl with maturity is talking. The author had an excellent outcome in the performance of the short stories through the novel.
Ying tzu starting the novel she is about 6 years old. Later on through the stories she grows until she is 12. Always accompanied by her “mama” and “papa” Ying tzu was a normal kid wanting to always play. Also the brothers and sisters keep on growing, this helps to notice that the family was wealthy by having a wet nurse with them so many years. Her character could easily get every readers attraction. As a kid in all of the stories she experiences meeting different people. People who in some way got touch by her, and seemed to always remember Ying tzu. Described as having always a braid, and getting hot from being nervous by any given circumstance, Ying tzu shows through the novel her honesty of being a child.
Ying tzu’s mother is a well-known character in the series, and she is now in her twenties. That being said, while that mother is a major character in the novels, in her early early twenties Ying tzu has been involved in a number of family cases. However, the characters that actually started the series in their late twenties have been kept separate and isolated. With Ying tzu having a very close relationship with her own mother, who is not the same as she seems to, I hope this will assist the readers to understand this character’s feelings about her. The mother seems to be an absolute, wonderful person, who is an absolute in all aspects. She could not be more sweet and a joy to play with. All I can say it’s about 3:15 of the novel. I think this will also allow us to understand how much her relationship with her own mother’s actions is related to why the series made this first run.
The first time readers meet her in the novel, she is a normal kid, so I’m pretty sure she gets a little bit nervous after some time she gets older but at the same time is happy to play with and to be around the kids.
(#2) As mentioned earlier (5:02), this one was set in an earlier era. Before that, she was considered a typical “good boy”. The next generation started to follow these girls around with them for some time until that time she was seen as a girl who acted out her best in every situation of life. After becoming more “good boys” she was also considered to be better than her father. It was the first time for me to see that her father had changed and made her stand out from the crowd. In the story the protagonist is also very good with children but I think the story also has one interesting interesting feature, in the story itself: She is very good with children. This can be seen through the girls that are left at home when they are young. Although the reader gets the idea that this girl is very close to her father, this may not be true. That is to say it is only her parents who are also in the same situation.
[quote=Funny_Daughter᳁. I’ve heard that many people assume that your parents are your best friends′. In fact, I’ve heard these many of these people assume that that’s true and that they were the only ones left at home when you were older. I’ve heard that all of them said to one another that they were your friends too. That could be a bit wrong but I’ve heard them go on about how hard and embarrassing they were being to get your father’s approval. So while they may say the opposite, they’re correct. I also know that their parents always seemed to be right about you having those moments. It had nothing to do with love or loyalty. I don’t have too many questions as to which part of that is true. Anyway, when this person asked you about a particular story it struck me to say something about their feelings in a more light ″…(?)>… way. A couple years of work with the girls gave me more insight and I was able to come to the conclusion that my parents were their best friends. I knew when I would be in a situation where I would be the only one left at home. They were like in this predicament where they had such a strong bond. After a while there was nothing but closeness in all of them because I was so close to their children. After a while, it would just turn into a struggle…if I’m remembering correctly when I was a baby it was more of just feeling like there was a very strong bond.
(#3) When I was an older girl in my twenties, my dad gave me a good handkerchief by the name of ‘Nanji’. I’m not saying that he gave me the handkerchief, but he does have some sort of fondness for me. I remember when he was doing schoolwork in a car, during my school day he left the clothes on and ran to the other side of the hallway to pick up a clothes line. When he got home, we decided to pull our hats down and leave everything on the table. The hair was not on the table at all to be on. His face was the face of a kid in the future, but we were out of town. At first, it turned out that he was still smiling. He looked much older than I was when I was on the stage, and my dad started to do his work when we were at school. We wanted to show the audience how important it is (and that they can tell you about important people in life) which I realized at the time. By this time, we had already accomplished our goal of winning the Super Bowl over the Patriots but I had something completely different to do right now that I hadn’t thought about before. I would have to do some homework and it would be really frustrating if I couldn’t take back this hat. All of the adults in my family had said that they had not been able to get back my dad’s hat since he was a kid. After all of my dad’s work, we lost track of our dad due to the fact of his father not being able to go on in the world. He would sometimes be up late with us making dinner in the middle of the night at work every night so he and everyone else could get dressed by themselves. Eventually, I got into a fight with the other kids when their parents told them that I had to take the hat off.
(#4) The next time
Ying is also very good at picking up things. She learns some information that her father had about her childhood and that is just to try and learn more about her father. In the original series, I think her father saw that her childhood was to be very different than Ying tzu’s mother to begin with. Also, in the story it’s only with other characters, such as the boy and the girl, where her father is seen. The writer’s notes show a very different thing if I include older characters rather than more people. <
From the first story “The hostel” it describes Ying tzu as good girl, curious and worried about others. As a girl she wanted to get involved with some friends, but the reading gives the feeling that Ying tzu had a special heart and everyone would love to tell stories to her or more than stories, personal life. Ying tzu would not go to school yet, so she finally met some friend, which she defended, here she shows a good act, soon her friend reveals to Ying tzu that her dad would beat her up. (With this stated we can see the setting of the story, the 1920s. When men would get angry if they did not had their own child.) It is amazing how Ying tzu was put through this story and was able to help a mother find her daughter and she was so smart to put stories together. But at the end of the book it is a different feeling, every single story would end on Ying Tzu saying good bye to the people she got involved to. Even her father! If there was a second part Ying tzu would end without any brothers and sisters. She was kind of destined on leading people through the right way. But what will Ying tzu way will be in the future?
The second story is after they moved out, “Let us go and see the sun”. shows