“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
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