In at least one hundred words, discuss the motivation behind Aina's desire to reconnect with her former teacher, Zhu Wenli, and how this desire and its conclusion develop the theme of "Decade" by Ha Jin.

Explanation:

In Ha Jin's "A Decade," Aina wants to apologize to Zhu. When she was a child, she heard Zhu analyze a work from Mao Zedong. He used a metaphor to compare Americans to dirt. Zhu did not like this and told the children that Americans were human just like the Chinese. Aina and her friends reported Zhu, thinking they were doing the right thing. However, as a result, of this, this kind and caring woman is tortured and made to work. When Zhu comes in a decade's time, she finds that Zhu has become a course, old woman. This greatly saddens Aina, as the Chinese government has made this woman into a shell of what she once was.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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