秦始皇在

“Snow Flower”

Chapter: “Winter”

This chapter tells the difficult times that Lily, Snow Flower, and Snow Flower’s family had in the mountain during the winter time. Through the charter we might see how difficult it could be during winter time and the hard situations that ancient Chinese had to face. “Winter” also lets us see how Snow Flower's life was and how rude her husband was with her. It shows us how strong she  had to be in order to endure the death of her son and the loss of the one who she was pregnat with because the domestic violence that she suffered. Even through the bad times  Snow Flower  and Lily got the strength to keep going without complains and sharing everything. In a strange way, this chapter shows the love that fathers had for their sons and the kind of fear that they had to have a baby girl. The love that Lily had for Snow Flower is a feeling that is showed in this chapter, as well as how much she tried to keep Chinese’s customs about the place of everyone in the family. In conclusion “Winter” is a chapter that lets us see how people may act in bad times and shows us that real friendship keeps two persons together no matter how bad times may be.

Questions

Why the chapter is titled “Winter”?

Why did Snow Flower’s husband take his angry out on her?

How Snow Flower’s life would have been with such a cruel mother in law?

Why did Lily care so much for Snow Flower‘s son?

Why did the widows commit suicide after their husband’s death?

Words

Perish                  to die

Chirped             to make a short high sound like a bird or insect         

Despair              to have a feeling that you have no hope at all

Scuffed               to make a mark on a smooth surface

Warmth             to have a feeling of being warm

Sunken               to have a sunken eyes have fallen inward making some one look sick

Scavenged        to search for food

Scraps                small piece of paper, cloth etc

Frailer                 to be thin and weak

Begging             to ask for something in a way which shows you want

Scarce                  there is not enough of something

Adrift                  to be without binding or course

Carcass               the body of a dead animal

Uprooted           to pull up a plaint root out of the earth

Sorrow                an event or felling of great sadness

Together

“Together” is a movie directed by Chen Kaige who tells the storu of Lui Xiaogun and his father Lui Cheg. The story takes place in Beijing, at 1999; it tells the sacrifices made it for Lui Cheg for his son who is a young genius of the violin. With only thirteen years old Lui Xiaogun is a Chinese boy who has been playing since he was five years old. Working hard Liu Cheg achieve to save enough money to get his son in a musical contest that will take place in Beijing.  In the contest the young violinist got the fifth place although he deserved the first. After that Liu Cheg got a professor for his son an old man who encourages Lui Xiaogun to play from his heart. After some time Lui Cheg realize that to get his son to the coups of the musical world he will need to know someone who knows someone else with influences; therefore, he change his son’s professor  for a rich and successful violin professor  and compositor  who take Lui Xiaogun as pupil and  get him just to the top. Under his new professor the young violinist will become greater, but when the time comes and Lui Xiaogun had to choose between his father and his own success as musician he run into his father’s hand.

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto - Together END SCENE