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.
- Explain the significance of the story about reburying Weifu’s little brother?
The significance is that Weifu cares about his mother and her wellbeing. Which is why even though he sees that there is no body and that it had decomposed full into the coffin. Weifu and his mother both need closure from his brother’s death and getting the dirt and having the idea that his brothers remains would hopefully he within that dirt and wrapping it up and placing it in another coffin would give him and his mother the piece of mind that they needed when they would visit the new burial site. It is relating to filial piety which is having respect for elders which was very important in the confucian movement.
- 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.
Revisitng his old home he realized how much it has changed. As well as how wherever he is , he stills feels out of place. His memories of his home and where he travels within the town are completely different than how he feel at the current moment when he visits for the first time in years. The theme would be modernism which then challenges the confusionism movement at the time.
