This is a short week since the college is closed on Monday for Labor Day. Enjoy the long weekend, and I will see you on Wednesday! Your work for this week is as follows:
- Make sure you have completed all the tasks listed in “Assignments – Week #1”
- Read your classmates’ introduction posts. Respond to a minimum of three introductions. Please do this by Friday, Sept. 9th
- Read Feng Menglong, “Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger” and respond to one of the questions shared in the post “Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger”. If you have the Norton Anthology, you can find the story in Volume D of the anthology. If you do not yet have the book, I have linked to a pdf of the text on the blog. You can find it under the “Text” tab at the top of the blog. Bring the text with you to class on Wednesday, Sept. 7th.
- Looking ahead…. Our next reading will be Moliere’s play Tartuffe. You will need to have finished reading the play by Wednesday, Sept. 14th. You can find the play in Volume D of the Norton Anthology.
Li Ja comes off as a spoiled man who never truly accomplished something on his own. His behavior isn’t anything surprising since there was never any hint that he would eventually stand up to his father for what he truly wanted. He was always going to bend to what his father would want, and it would just be a matter of when.
Maybe it he came up with the money on his own he would have changed; however, he proved to be completely unable to do anything independently.