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Definition such as to provoke laughed (adjectives)

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The Narrator - 17 years old, plays violin, his bestfriend is Luo father is a doctor and the mother is a parasitic lung specialist.

Luo - 18 years old, the narrators best friend, Father is a dentist, smart, quick-witted and quick-thinking. Calm, cool, and collected.

Luo's father - Dentist who was publicly humiliated because he was accused of cheating. In reality, he mentioned Mao's name is the same sentence as his political enemy.

The headman - Three blood spots in his left eye and gross nose hairs. Devout Communist. Isolated as is the whole village.

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The narrator and Luo are two friends who have been sent to a mountainside village to be re-educated by the peasants and farmers.  as the book begins, we find the villagers and the headman inspecting a violin that the narrator brought with him. The villagers thought the violin was a toy (villagers were isolated) until the narrator played mozart

The narrator gives us background information about the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the boy's background

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Definition (adjective) rough and sharp

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Lug's and the narrator's living condition (job, home, and future) are given to the reader. They're not great- carrying excrement, living above a pigsty, three in a thousand chance of getting to go home. They have an alarm clock that has fascinated the headman; the boys abuse the power of the alarm clock by constantly manipulating the time. The headman likes movies and gives the boys an opportunity to go to the next town, watch the local movies, return to their village, and tell the villagers the story of the movie they watched.

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The Narrator - He hopes to become a better violinist so he might have a better chance of getting out of his re- education he has stage fright and is shy when it comes to retelling the stories

Lou- good at storytelling it's his best skill. quick witted when he changed the time of the clocks.

Headman - likes story's, fascinated by the alarm

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-Phoenix?

-Storytelling?

-might be able to escape...

-actual education from the townspeople or the movies...

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definition: (adjective) acting with or showing care and thought for the future.

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Luo and the narrator meet the tailor on their way to see their friend four- eyes. then later, they meet the little seamstress when they go to get Luo's pants lengthened. Some flirting going on between Luo and the LS.

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narrator: he found a suit case of books and he broke 4 eyes glass's
4 eyes: he scared and his glasses broke his suitcase was found by the narrator and hes scared about it

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they found 4 eyes suit case in his house and he is scared. when they were walking up the mountain they were switching holding the stuff and reading

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belligerent (pg.56) : aggression and hostile

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the boys read the book 4 eyes gave them. Lou went to go see the seamstress. Lou told the narrator that they had love.

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narrator: jealous of Lou
Lou: is very happy and enjoys the book

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Lou wanted to help four eyes
four eye is washing his cloths from lice

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four eyes get lice he got lice from a bed looking for mountain songs to get off the mountain four eyes made the mountain person mad because he wasn't eating his pebbles.

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bereft (pg.61) : deprived or lacking

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the boys get an old uniform to go up the mountain and get the songs so they can get more books. see the old miller she offers pebbles with liquor. so they except it and eat the pebbles. the old miller actually starts to sing the old folk song.

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indignation (pg.79) : anger or annoyance

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Lou fights four eyes because four eyes will not give him the books he promised and he rewrote the song.

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four eyes: self centered

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cyclamen (pg. 88) : European pink flower

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lou the narrator and the little seamstress go see a movie. little seamstress says the narrator is really good at story telling. the narrator is talking to four eyes’s mom narrator lies givers her the name of lou. the narrator is starting to like the little seamstress.

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four-eyes’s mom: she doesn’t like the narrator but like lou

narrator: wants to marry lou’s girlfriend he is a very good story teller

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instigation (pg. 96) process of instigating someone

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they break into the house narrator dream about stealing the books. for eyes and mom has a leaving party

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vertiginous: extremely vertigo by being extremely high or sleepy

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they want to get the little seamstress books to get re-educated nightmares about the little seamstress getting hurt the narrator decides to go see the little seamstress

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the books is changing the narrator

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we are starting to see dreams popping up

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lou- loyal friend if the narrator is going to be taken to be tortured, take me as well. lou is still quick to think of a way out of not- so-great situations. Luo eventually fights godzilla and wins.

The narrator- he shows that he can be a sadist (the whole godzilla thing). he has become at least the equal of luo when it comes to story telling.

the tailor- also influenced by western literature as he incorporates the styles.

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the narrator- He is gotten really good at story telling he building feelings for the little seamstress. quick tempered

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the narrator is trying to help the little seamstress they both are growing up they are becoming mature he talked about his parents and he gave them two books

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this book was very eventful my reaction over the whole book was it was pretty good book i wouldn’t see my self reading this on my free time but i likes the drama that was in it like the narrator going for the little seamstress even though lou was dating her and even though lou got her pregnant the narrator still called the little seamstress his soulmate so that really got me thinking about what lou would do if he found out and i learned some things like you have to be 25 to get married and to have a baby you have to be married and the seamstress was not married so she had to get a abortion 

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this book was very eventful my reaction over the whole book was it was pretty good book i wouldn’t see my self reading this on my free time but i likes the drama that was in it like the narrator going for the little seamstress even though lou was dating her and even though lou got her pregnant the narrator still called the little seamstress his soulmate so that really got me thinking about what lou would do if he found out and i learned some things like you have to be 25 to get married and to have a baby you have to be married and the seamstress was not married so she had to get a abortion 