Please respond to any two of the following questions. Please be sure to use complete sentences in composing your response and include evidence from the text to illustrate your ideas.
- The story’s narrator is revisiting a place he once lived. Explain the significance that this “revisiting” has in relation to the themes of the story.
- What is the connection between our narrator and Weifu? Why do you think so much of the story is spent on Weifu’s life, while the narrator shares very little about his own life experiences?
- Explain the significance of the story about reburying Weifu’s little brother?
- Weifu recalls when he and the narrator used to pull the beards off religious statues in the Temple when they were younger. What is the significance of this memory?
- Describe an instance of filial piety in the story. What is its significance?
- What aspects of this short story seem to you to be particularly modernist?
