It’s easy for us to get stuck in our own minds and not see the perspectives of others. Take a moment to consider the perspective of the character listed below. What might be her struggles? What decisions would you make if you were in her place? Write a short paragraph that demonstrates your understanding of the character as you attempt to identify with her situation. Once you have completed your post, comment on a classmate’s post to build on his or her ideas, pose questions, or politely agree or disagree and explain why. Character for discussion:
Wife of Bath

merry christmas to you, too. may god be with you all in doing your work and just living a great life in general! < 3

fire

explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.