E ASIAN 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Free Indirect Speech, Lao She, Political Philosophy
26 Feb 2020
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Think-pair-share: realism and politics in lao she. Try to use one or two specific examples from the narrative to illustrate your interpretation. Third-person with some free indirect discourse: if put aside ten cents every day, in a thousand days he"d have a hundred yuan. He tried to calculate just how long that was but failed. A thousand days, even ten thousand days -- it wouldn"t matter. He was going to buy his own rickshaw. (9) There seems to be some kind of power relationship between the narrator and the character. Xiangzi is neither in control of himself ( he now felt that a force greater than himself was rolling him into a ball and throwing it into a roaring fire. He was powerless to keep himself from moving ahead ), nor is he able to tell his own story . Xiangzi feels himself through narrating as himself.
