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We meet the narrator and his best friend Lou, who are both being re-educated in a small, mountainside village. The headman of the village is inspecting a violin the narrator  brought with him . The narrator gives use some context about the Cultural Revolution and re-education camps.Lous dad (a famous dentist) is publicly humiliated for mentioning Mao and Jiang Jibes in the same sentence.

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The narrator - seventeen years old. Main character (?). Luo's best friend. Father is a doctor, mother is a parasitic disease specialist. Can play the violin.

Luo - eighteen years old. Best friends with the narrator. Quirky, smart, quick thinking, calm, cool, and collected.  Luo's father is a famous dentist.

The headman -  scary looking (three spots of blood in his left eye, nose hairs). Intimidating. Strong figure and Communist.

Luo's father - famous dentist who worked on Mao's teeth. Accused of sleeping with his nurse (did not actually)

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Definition: (adjective) such as to provoke laughter.

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Definition: (adjective) winding or turning one way or another

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Definition: (adjective) irritating or annoying

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The narrator - he really is good at the violin; but he knows a lot of classical pieces; plays pieces Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven.
Still seems kind of shy/stage fright- takes a back seat to Luo when telling the story of the movie. The narrator seems to be Luo’s sidekick?

Luo - good at storytelling, addicted to cigarettes, likes to entertain. He is understanding depressed - three kids in a thousand might get out of re-education. Luo continue to prove that he’s quick-witted,smart,and tricky (alarm clock manipulation).

The headman - he’s fascinated by the alarm clock and he really likes storytelling. Wants to be entertained.

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The narrator describes, their living conditions (Phoenix mountain and the house on stilts) as well as their ‘job; moving human and animal excrement from village to the fields (gross). We lean the village is not very civilized, as they are curious/confused by the alarm clock. The headman gives the boys a new job - going to the nearby village, watching the movies, and returning to tell the story of what they saw.

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There new jobs watching movies and telling story could give them to escape the re-education system.

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Luo and the narrator meet the tailor on their way to visit Four—Eyes.Later, when they go to have Luo’s trousers lengthened, they meet the seamstress.They learn more about the talior from the LS. There is a little bit of filling between the LS. And Lou.

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The Little Seamstress - daughter of the tailor. She can’t read much, but likes to talk to people who can read and write ( likes to hear other ideas). Flirting with Luo. Alone the majorities of the time. Beautiful, pretty eyes, long eyelashes.

The tailor - Father of the LS. He’s wealthy., powerful, treated like royalty/celebrity. Travels from village to village for his tailoring service.

Four-eyes - Luo and the narrator’s friend from the city. He’s being re-education in a different village.

The narrator - Maybe he likes the LS as well? He’s quiet, he seems to take a backseat to Luo

Luo - appears to like LS. He denies his interest inn the seamstress by saying “she’s not civilized, at least enough for me”(27). Despite the poor living conditions, he continued to grow.

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Luo and the narrator have been assigned a new job - working in the coal mine. Luo and the narrator think that they are going to die in the mine, and eventually Luo comes down with malaria. The village/coal miners try to whip the sickness out of Luo , but he is still sick. Luo receives a letter from the Little Seamstress in white h she tells him that the Headman of her village has asked that the boys tell the stories of the movies they have seen.

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Definition: ( adjective ) disturbing and horrifying because e of involvement with of depiction of death and in injury.

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The narrator - scared of dying in the mine (would see his life flash before his eyes often) Worried he’ll never see his parents again.

Luo - scared of dying in the mine. Comes down with malaria.

The little seamstress -  Thinking about Luo. She can read and write, thanks to her father, the tailor. Flirting with Luo again through the letter. She’s spoken to her village headman to see if Luo and the narrator could come to her village to tell the stories of the movies.

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Definition: (noun) a soft, moist mass of material typically of plant material or flour, applied to the body to relieve pain and inflammation.

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The Little Seamstress - good with medicine/remedies. Cares about Luo. Kisses Luo. Doesn’t know what a dentist is, but is aware of worms in your teeth.

Lou - Still fighting malaria/fever, but still wants to see the Little Seamstress. Second chapter in a row that he has not been the focal point (due to his sickness). Can still steal the show and steal a kiss  with a well-timed line

The narrator - Call the LS pretty (does he have a crush on LS as well?) Character development abilities, telling the entire story of The Little Flower to the LS and the four sorceresses. He’s still not as good as Luo, ur he is improving. Smaller crowd? Luo wasn’t there to demand the spotlight? Maybe he wants to impress the LS?

The sorceresses - old, ugly crones (witches). One has a bow with which protect them from the demons (sickness). The first audience for the narrator’s first storytelling adventure.

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Why doesn’t anyone in the story have a name (besides Luo)?

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Why doesn’t anyone in the story have a name (besides Luo)?

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-Foreshadowing something about Luo?

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Luo is still sick. They go to the LS to tell story. The LS brings the sorceresses to help with Lou’s sickness. The narrator tells the story of the movies, and worth Luo’s help, brings the sorceresses to tears. The LS kisses Luo.

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The new job watching movies could offer to except from re-education.
Luo is still sick.
Still no names.

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They went to Four-eyes house. Luo was cold so the narrator went Inside to get him cloths and  found a crate with a locked suitcase inside. Luo and the Narrator thought that he has forbidden books inside so when Four-eyes lost his glasses and needed help carrying his rice to the rice station they said they would help help if hr gave them a ok with the authors name being Baizac.

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Definition: (adjective) in a way that involves physical strength, effort, or energy; strenuously.

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Four-Eyes - A friend of Luo and the narrator, being re-educated on the same mountain (phoenix) but different village. Has a locked suitcase with forbidden book inside.

Luo -  Was sick from malaria at the beginning and ending up getting cured from malaria.

The narrator - Finds the suitcase when he was getting cloths for Luo.

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Luo and the narrator ended up getting a book and reading it. The book was a romance book and it drove Luo to end up talking the LS virginity.

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Vocabulary word - ponderousness (pg. 56)

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Vocabulary word - ponderousness (pg. 56)

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Definition (adjective) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency

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Luo - reads the book and directly after he takes the LS virginity

The narrator- Read the book and realized that he likes LS. First time being told about romance

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Definition: (Adjective) deprived of or lacking (something).

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Four-eyes - Have lice, got a letter from his mother by poetess who had once been famous that has even appointed editor-in-chief of a journal devoted to revolutionary literature.

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Luo and The Narrator go to Four-Eye's house. Four-Eyes tls them about his quest to find old folk songs but when he met the person who knows all the folk songs he wouldn't sing any for him so Luo and the Narrator proposed that they would get the folk songs for him in exchange for another book by Balzac

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They find a old military outfits and dress up as them and go visit Mlire. But old muller stold and say lets go to get dinner and drink. They eat old miller food and they keep eating the pallebs. And he grab his gaiter and ing his old mountain song

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The narrator- speak momdter

luo- he quickly on his feet

Miller- he is little stober

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Definition ( Noun) the action or process of altering or being altered.

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Luo- He gets upset at four-eyes because he really wants the book.

The Narrator - Couldn't control his anger at Four-Eyes for yelling at him and ends up punching him

Four-Eyes - Criticized and yelled at Luo and the Narrator for not bringing him the songs he wanted and was overall mean to them.

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Definition: (noun) a person employed to carry luggage and other loads, especially in a railroad station, airport, or hotel.

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They went to Yong Jing and took LS with him. She Loved the movie. On Their home the narrator meets Four-Eyes mom. She tells him Four-eyes is going home and denies he have a suit case of books. The narrator and Luo divide to sell the suit case.

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The narrator : Getting feeling for LS. He is lying and pretending to be Luo.

Four-eyes moms: every rich person, act like she doesn’t know the books. She is very perotect to her son.

LS: Says the narrator tells stories better.

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Definition: (adjective) obsolete through age or new technological or intellectual developments.

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The narrator - realizes he is a it of a sadist (C15). According to Luo, the narrator’s storytelling is superior to Lou’s(C14).When the headman discovers the narrator telling stories, the narrator is scared of torture/never getting off the mountain. (14)

Luo-  comes up with the sewing machine/drill idea to help save the narrator. Loyal to friend - insists that he accompany the narrator if he is taken away by the headMan.

Tailor- Appareently doesn’t need sleep- works all day and listens to the boy’s stories all night. The western literature is influencing him as well. He is incorporating French styles (from the book) into the clothes that he makes for the villagers. (C14)

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The narrator- Reads books to LS and helps her around the house. Is getting better at story telling and get closer to LS.

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The narrator -he’s loyal and is is willing to risk everything to help a friend, he really cars about the LS. He is more and put the LS feeling above his.

LS - had an abortion, Sadi she would do anything to get rid of the baby. This is first time we have seen her scared or conflicted.

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LS-  realizes he worth ,grows up, learns from the books. Because she found these things out she is willing to leave luo, Her father and the narrator. Change her apperception.

Luo - He see the LS changes and he thins its because of him and says how him and the narrator reading to her is changes her good. Treated LS as an object and his.

The narrator - feels betrayed after LS leave him.