Helen's padlet by Xiaoai Guo

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The book tries to break down gender stereotypes and change traditional social ideas and guide readers to think about issues such as gender identity , social structure, and personal freedom.

Theme

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The story is set on the planet Gessen,a world covered in ice and snow with extreme climate.The residents here are physiologically similar to Earthlings,but they spend most of their time asexual and enter the "Kemu period"once a month(during which they randomly become male or female).

learn

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we through the stroy,we learn sexual and racial prejudice,and we need to opposite it.trust and betray,enjoy lonely,adapt new environment,learn to communicate and so on.

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When we purchase freedom ,we should take responsibility for the society

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When an alien in the unfamiliar environment.This is not just physical survial in a harsh environment,but also the need to survive socially in a land where his mission and identity put him at risk.

Gender

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We learned that gender is fluid. And today ,gender is a choice for people,not the limitation.And we could learned trust,cultural difference,adaptation.

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In circumstances the title may main the main character use left hand to save something. In deeper meaning ,left and darkness are opposite to the right and light,which means the author fight with the bad tradition and prejudice

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The significance of the title is to show the topic of the story.We guess darkness means the difficulties what the character faced and the the left of darkness means bright that symbolize our wish about no sexual prejudice social.

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There is a sentence in the book“Light is the left hand of darkness “So we guess the meaning of the title is the light behind of darkness.Only if wen go through difficulties can we see rainbow.

And we suppose that the“left hand"is a clue in the book.The main character lost his left hand.

What’s more , we can see from the opposite aspect,the opposite words of the title is“the right hand of light".The background of the book is the cold war and vitanam war.Maybe the author is tried of war and hope for peace and light.

It's seems to talk about dark but actually is about brightness. Human nature are both in bright and dark side.Light and darkness are interdependent, and darkness is actually a necessary condition for light.

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Every decisions and chances can change our life.But the truth always hide in the darkness.This book shows the brightness against the darkness of gender prejudice

the special meaning of the title

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In islam culture,left hand means impolite and

evil,people are not allowed to use left hand to eat andwash their face.Lightness is born with right hand ,and darkness is born with left hand,darkness and lightness walks side by side.Gender prejudice is evil,just like the left hand of darkness.So the writercreated a utopia of female.

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equal of gender,and equal of culture.Everyone should respect other's choices.You can choose to be a man or a woman,or so to be a gay or a lesbian.We also need to balance the different culture.

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the main theme of the books is no sexual prejudice we think,in our life we should chase the gender equality and respect the gender fulid.

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Themes:gender fluid/physical and mental survival/ balance of freedom and responsibility/peace and love / cultural diversity

In our lives, we should avoid gender prejudice and bridge the gap between different cultures.

And the personal freedom can’t put beyond laws and regulations.

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In 1960s,the US experienced the Cold War,woman’s movement，black civil right movement,civilians open and change their mind entirely,and Ursula combine the situation with her critical thoughts,making this GENDER FLUID theme a convincing topic.

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The gender is fluid.The author creates a world without gender differences, where the Genly views another planet from a perspective with gender differences. We share the same cultural concepts as the Genly, and readers feel more immersed, making the theme brought to life.

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We think there are three main themes ,cultural differences,trust and gender.

Firstly,like Genly go to another planet,we come form different cities,and some of us may go abroad to study and work,so we face the problem of cultural differences.

Secondly,Genly always betraied by his partners.As a result ,in our daily life ,we need to trust others to communicate better,but we can’t trust other totally to protect ourself from cheating by others.

What’s more,the gender is fluid in the book.In that time,the power of women rosed,and the debate of gender was strong.