Welcome to the ARCC Blogspot for The Last Communist Virgin. This blog will serve as a dedicated site where students can explore and use the resources available on the internet to read about, research, and publish their own reviews and responses to their reading of this semester's Two Rivers Reading Series short story collection.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Explore the weblinks until you find MPR's interview with Wang Ping and read through it. How is the author's own life history similar to that of the characters in her book?
The second story in the book is a lot like what she had seen in the Cultural Revoluation. It was a war zone. They had banned books and closed schools. The lives they lived were hard but they kept going.
Wang Ping stated that while she was growing up in China, she witnessed the sweeping changes of the cultural revolution as they reached her community when she was seven or eight. The authorities exiled her father and imprisoned her mother, leaving Wang as head of the family, looking after two younger sisters. This is very similar to the girl's experiences in "Where the Poppies Blow" and how she went through many struggles to survive. -Sarah Lindwall Crush".
As in her book, in Wang Pings own life she had to deal with war as a child, and moving from China to America to go to school. She has also lived threw love triangles like the one in The Last Communist Virgin Chapter. - Asha Sathre
Wang Ping had deal with war as a child, moved from China to America for scholing and had experiences a love like the one in The last communist Vigrin. -detxenyang
Some similarities of her life and book are, she had a true love just like she did in the book. Another is that she dealt with war as a child, and then her family moved to America.
The authors life is similar by how she came she came to the U.S. after attending one year at the Beijing University and in 1985. She came to New York to study the U.S. and get her doctorate from New York University --Cory Hilbelink
the character goes through many situations in the book and the author can relate to all of them. she grew up in the time of a revolution so a war was going on and it was a stuggle. she came to america for a better oppertunity.
all the characters of the story were struggling. wether they are in China or America. The description of was as a child and other details as a American was describe nicely as a better life.
She basically bases the stories off her own life, using different things she went through in different stories, like growing up during the war and coming to America to finish school and work.
She lived through wars, changing cultures, being head of household at the age of 8, no education,desperate to learn she talked her way into Bejing College with a second grade education. Her adventurous self brought her to where she is now. A professor at McAllester College. What a journey
Lela R V she bases the all the stories in the book about her own life and add different things in to it that she though will make the interesting and make people to want to read them or understand it at the same time.
I would say that her life in Chinese is quite equivalent to her book.She witnessed the culture revolution. She lived in poverty, lacked of "legal" educations and struggled with the America's life at very first when she came there. Basically, I think that her book is the combination within her own life.
The second story in the book is a lot like what she had seen in the Cultural Revoluation. It was a war zone. They had banned books and closed schools. The lives they lived were hard but they kept going.
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Wang Ping stated that while she was growing up in China, she witnessed the sweeping changes of the cultural revolution as they reached her community when she was seven or eight. The authorities exiled her father and imprisoned her mother, leaving Wang as head of the family, looking after two younger sisters. This is very similar to the girl's experiences in "Where the Poppies Blow" and how she went through many struggles to survive. -Sarah Lindwall
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As in her book, in Wang Pings own life she had to deal with war as a child, and moving from China to America to go to school. She has also lived threw love triangles like the one in The Last Communist Virgin Chapter. - Asha Sathre
ReplyDeleteWang Ping had deal with war as a child, moved from China to America for scholing and had experiences a love like the one in The last communist Vigrin. -detxenyang
ReplyDeleteSome similarities of her life and book are, she had a true love just like she did in the book. Another is that she dealt with war as a child, and then her family moved to America.
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The authors life is similar by how she came she came to the U.S. after attending one year at the Beijing University and in 1985. She came to New York to study the U.S. and get her doctorate from New York University
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the character goes through many situations in the book and the author can relate to all of them. she grew up in the time of a revolution so a war was going on and it was a stuggle. she came to america for a better oppertunity.
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She also dealt with the war going on. It reached her community and they exiled her father and imprisoned her mother.
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She had to deal with war and moving from china to america. she also heald a true love just like in the book.
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all the characters of the story were struggling. wether they are in China or America. The description of was as a child and other details as a American was describe nicely as a better life.
ReplyDeleteShe basically bases the stories off her own life, using different things she went through in different stories, like growing up during the war and coming to America to finish school and work.
ReplyDelete-BriJo Deopere
She lived through wars, changing cultures, being head of household at the age of 8, no education,desperate to learn she talked her way into Bejing College with a second grade education. Her adventurous self brought her to where she is now. A professor at McAllester College. What a journey
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Lela R V
ReplyDeleteshe bases the all the stories in the book about her own life and add different things in to it that she though will make the interesting and make people to want to read them or understand it at the same time.
Lauren Pacey
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She has to go through a lot of struggles in her life including having to live through a war and thats why she is lucky to come to america.
I would say that her life in Chinese is quite equivalent to her book.She witnessed the culture revolution. She lived in poverty, lacked of "legal" educations and struggled with the America's life at very first when she came there. Basically, I think that her book is the combination within her own life.
ReplyDeleteThe similarites I found were her struggles with war and finding of true love. Derek Goodwin
ReplyDeleteI learned that just like in the Chapter Where the popies blow and briefly through some other chapters that Wang Pang experienced war as a child.
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