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Exposition: mother is making bao buns for her husband and herself

Rising Action:
--father leaves wife alone while eating
--mother takes bite of the last bao bun but the bao bun starts to cry
-- the woman cares for her the bao bun like a son
--she takes him shopping, takes him out to play at the park, etc.
-- she is very protective of her bao sun (she doesn't let him play soccer bc he got hurt)
--bao son gets older and more distant from his mother
-- bao bun pulls a hottie
--mother is upset and loney bc her bao son is growing up and leaving her
--bao son tries to move out with his girlfriend

Climax:
--mother eats her bao son as he is about to move out

Resolution:
-- her real son comes home (who looks like a bao bun) and comforts his mother while she is crying and alone
--her son shares food with his mother and they bond
-- mother, son, father, and the girlfriend sit around the table bonding and eating bao buns
-- everyone is happy and bonding and healed

Any notes about narrative pacing/structure?]]> 2022-10-31 15:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363543068 23scibiliaa https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363545189 -seattle? (needle)
-Dinning room with warm lighting. 
-House is fairly nice (looks like an apartment in the city) Maybe an older style house. Chinese influence
- Town: active, many markets and shops 
- Bedroom: Dark (only light coming from the door)
- As son grows older the lighting gets darker until resolution at end where it is lighter again]]> 2022-10-31 15:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363545189 23scibiliaa https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363545396 mom vs time(son growing up) -- the mom is sad and feels lonely bc her son is growing up and won't stay with her forever]]> 2022-10-31 15:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363545396 23scibiliaa https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363547307
Topics:
motherly love
moving on
maturing
growing up
lonliness

dependence vs. independence
acceptance of maturity
sadness leads to acceptance
love of a mother
loneliness leads to denial
the inevitability of children growing up

Theme:
___ vs ___...
___ of ___...
___ leads to___...]]> 2022-10-31 15:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363547307 23scibiliaa https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363548409
mom--
--is a good cook (house wife)
--loves her son and wants to keep him sheltered
--average mother who doesn't want her kids to leave her
--sacred to be lonely because her husband doesn't give her any attention
--maybe depressed
--isolated

son--
--distant
--loves his mom but his living his own life
--doesn't want to live with his mom forever

bao bun son--
--represents the actual son
--how the mother copes with with her son growing up and leaving her
--is eaten by the mom
--most likely a reenactment of how her son grew up and left her

father--
--extremely distant
--not involved
--doesn't comfort his wife
--isn't really involved in his son's life

girlfriend--
--chill
--joins family for dinner at the end
--loves the son but understands the importance of family
--no bad vibes


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Must be a Defensible, Interpretive, DO something

CLAIM, Overview of evidence, Verb for Literary Analysis

Though ____ (title or character) VERB + CLAIM

Through "Bao" the lighting getting progressively darker and then light again at the end which alludes to how loneliness can lead to depression. 

Through the mother's actions in "Bao", the stereotypical roles of the mother solely caring for the child emphasizes the use of the gender studies theory lens.

]]> 2022-10-31 15:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363551027 23scibiliaa https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363552645 The bao bun -- represents her son and the relationship between a mother and son as they grow up/apart]]> 2022-10-31 15:51:42 UTC https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363552645 23scibiliaa https://padlet.com/23scibiliaa/julmj4tpaf8dakdk/wish/2363554641

--gender studies theory (stereotypical gender roles--father is absent and mother is doing all of the raising and house work)
--What sort of support (if any) is given to elements or characters who question the masculine/feminine binary? What happens to those elements/characters?

--psychological lens (stages of grief, isolation and loneliness)
--What might a given interpretation of a literary work suggest about the psychological motives of the reader?


--New historicism lens (different then common south east asian customs -- son moves out)
--How are events' interpretation and presentation a product of the culture of the author?

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