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• MY LECTURE
divided into three Parts- three narrators:
Part One: Jook Liang, Only sister
Part Two: Jung Sum, Second Brother
Part Three: Sek-Lung, Third Brother
Establish setting, major characters, milieu – overall feeling in the text, emotional centre of the novel – drama, comedy, complex- lots of elements
complex – just like your life
Verisimilitude of Vancouver, city history
verisimilitude – setting, details of the setting, little details that make the story seem real
Introduce morays of Chinese culture – Cantonese speakers
Chinese population in Vancouver has changed in the past 20 years
20 years – no/very few Mandarin speakers, all Cantonese
China – hundreds of dialects and languages- main language -Mandarin, official language
South China – Canton Guangdong - Cantonese
I hope you read some background on this – the links I sent you
Chapter 1 Talking Notes
“Poh-Poh” – Cantonese for “grandmother”
English – Grandma, Grandmother, Nanny,
Spanish – Abuela
Persian - Mamajoon
Philippines - Lola
Russian - Babushka
Mandarin: Lao Lao or Wai Poh
‘Poh-Poh’ has power, matriarch, eldest, decision-maker
matri – mother
cultural – veneration of the elderly, respect for the elderly
matriarch – the highest status woman in a family, the boss
matrimony – marriage (n) the father “gives her away” to the groom
dowry – money that is given along with the woman
“took pleasure in her status” “arbitrator of the old ways” (6)
her position in the family
paradox – internal contradiction -
patra – father
DISCUSSION QUESTION: “Do you keep your traditions from your home country alive in Canada?”
“false immigration stories to hide, secrets to be kept” p6
- lots of hidden things in this novel, concealing and revealing
Jook Liang – unreliable narrator, just a kid, lots that does not understand, including dialects
Poh-Poh “Too much bad memory” p7
“Old One” Poh-Poh – respect, aged, elderly, high status
“Go to Gold Mountain” p9 Gum San
Gold Rush – California, BC, Alaska
“law against begging for food… no law… against starving to death” p10
“pea pod China men” p11
Wong Bak “an elder…so every respect must be paid to him” p11
-childhood friend of Poh-Poh
“Grandmother must not lose face” p11
-Wong Bok has been injured/twisted severely through hard work
Wong Sin-saang’s face
“Is it a demon or spirit?” p15
funny- Popo waiting, forgotten in kitchen
“the Monkey King” p18, magical, powerful
Monkey King – very well-known children’s story from China
Journey to the West
“Monkey talk” p20
Monkey King as Cheetah, cultural elusion
tried to pull his face off “A for-real Monkey Man” p24
Jook Liang bonded with Wong Suk
“This child not afraid of me.” p25
- he is used to people being afraid of him because of his twisted face and body
Tomorrow- Continue
with “Literary Terms”
I know it is challenging to
read a chapter a day, but this is a reasonable expectation for English 11.
Quiz #2 – short paragraph
(50-80w)
Email to me by 9:45am
Why was father worried about Wong Bak’s visit?
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