Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Sin Far's autobiography was very interesting for me. I had no idea that she experienced what it felt like to be a mysterious specimen. Throughout her childhood, from what she wrote, I thought she was looked upon like an entirely different species. At the party, people would look at her up and down even when she was just a child. I did like the part when she was a stenographer and stood up for herself when everyone was putting the Chinese down. I can see why she writes the stories the way she does. A lot of them have to do with what she went through in life. Sometimes I think she repeats herself.

2 comments:

Maggie said...

I thought her biography was interesting as well because it explained why she wrote the way she did. The conflicts that she experiences with being half Chinese shows why she writes about the experiences from the Chinese side and point of view. It is as if she is trying to get back at all the people that hurt her and made her feel horrible about being part Chinese through her stories. When she writes "individuality is more than nationality" on p.230, it shows how she did have a struggle throughout her life. I feel this was just a bunch of short stories that helped her relieve some of that struggle.

Bumiller said...

Great quote! "individuality is more than nationality"