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Today’s agenda
1. The Jade Peony Chapter 3
2. Using quotations
3. HW Read JP Chapter 4 for Wednesday, make notes on the Thought Questions
Part 2 “Jung-Sum, second brother”
4. Tomorrow: Continue with “Literary Terms”
Test #2- Paragraph on JP Ch1-3
JP Ch3 – final chapter of Jook Liang’s story, narrator
resolution, denounement
plot – events of the story in sequence
plotline –
1. exposition – expose – to show
2. rising action – conflict, story heats up, competing interests
3. climax – on the edge of your seat, maximum tension, maximum emotion
4. falling action – story starts to relax, slide toward the resolution
5. resolution/denouement – end of the story, wrap up
MY LECTURE NOTES
• JP Ch3 – denouement of Part 1
• “The white taffeta dress… faded raspberry stain near the collar.” p43
doesn’t look like Shirley Temple
everything is second-hand, third-hand, tattered, worn
no money for luxuries and “stupid foolish”
dream vs reality
“Beauty and the Beast” p44
CBC.ca “You Can’t Ask That”
https://gem.cbc.ca/season/you-cant-ask-that/season-1/72c403c1-54c9-41c9-9608-e07f82bf4b84
signs of something wrong
“Where is Wong Suk?” “Paper day for Wong Suk” p47
“Walk young for young job; walk old for old job.” p48
“more life years… added to your paper years, the more Honourable one became” p48
“I had witnessed Poh-Poh giving different numbers to different people.” p48
“paper-years… always different from Chinese years” p49
“I stupidly thought, There’s nothing left to tell.” p49
Jook Liang does not know what is going on- she is being kept in the dark
“Tell her.” Wong Suk repeatedly p50
“negotiate with the… the Tong”
“Big Careless Mouth… Too many English words” p51
“whispering… all jostling for survival… each as desperate as Chinese voices” –universal immigrant experience ***
-kids have big mouths sometimes
-the family is very wary of government officials/government
FLASHBACK
“Johnson bess-see Boss Man” p53 “bess-see” best, heavy accent
saved his life in rail camp
Wong Suk only wanted gold
“note… wrapped around a heavy American gold coin” p56
“Head Tax” p57
“Bess-ee” best (Wang Bak’s accent)
hairy red demon – Johnson was Caucasian (white) – big beard and lots of body hair, redhead, lumberjack
demon – translation from Cantonese – “lo fan” “gwei lo” white demon, white devil, white ghost
why ghost/demon? – rude? not really
My wife is Chinese. She teasingly calls me “No fun lo fan.” because I like to stay home and read a book.
Chinese are very teasing to the people they love – term of endearment “crazy face” “stupid pig”
other cultures – “monkey” – shows love
Wang Bak sensitive man, talks about a girl he liked in “Old China” when he was young
he was very poor, no $ for expensive gift to show his love - “I gave her plum blossoms… Throw back at me all the blossoms” p58 - spit
50+ years ago, still remembers the pain of that
* Do you remember the first time you got your heart broken?
“Lucky Money” why? p60 wedding? journey?
“that was a sign, too, and I did not pay enough attention” p60
What is happening with Wong Suk? rising suspense
“Wong Suk told of being friends with some Siwash natives” p60
mah-jong “Gossip was a way everyone warned everyone else about what was known” p61
“Who did not have a tale to tell?” p63
“hint of mystery… Paper, paper, paper… Tell her… Father could not” pp63-4
-“monkey man and defiant girl, once showed their whip scars to each other” p65
parallel of Wang Bak and Jook Liang now & Wang Bak and Poh-poh 60+ years ago
Wang Bak is a throughline between Poh-poh and Jook Liang
Poh-poh might be a bit jealous?
“when I cried, I cried on my own” p65
“the bones shipment” p66
“I waited for our Chinglish conversation” p66
“I wished everyone would go away and stay away” p68
“I felt the deep warmth of his cloak and moved away” p69
“Farewell, my bandit princess” p71
“I forgot to..urge him Turn around. Come back. Come back” pp71-2
Father is very thoughtful toward his daughter’s feelings: “No, not yet, not until Liang wants to leave” p72
“I did not, then, in the days of our royal friendship… never to forget you.” p72
Wang Bak has to go, Canada is not his home
“I never to forget you” “never to forget you” repeated phrase (43,72, other pages-look out for them)
repeated- means important – novel about memory, secrets, what is hidden, what is revealed, funny/sad, melancholic
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