Imagine that the story "The Lady or the Tiger?" is true. Write a paragraph of at least 125 words giving your own opinion about one of the following questions. Use evidence from the text to support your opinion. Was the king's system of trying criminals a fair one by modern standards? Why or why not?
If the princess had been a Christian rather than a barbarian, what would she have done? What Christian principle is involved?
If the princess had made the choice you think she would have made, what would probably have happened in the next scene? Consider how the princess would feel as well as the events you think might take place.
Can you think of any examples from daily life or the news of the day that show conflicts caused by jealousy?

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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