Maybo
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- Joined
- Feb 23, 2017
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- Hong Kong
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- Hong Kong
She was the only daughter; her four brothers went with her father, husband, and uncles "out on the road" and for some years became western men. When the goods were divided among the family, three of the brothers took land, and the youngest, my father, chose an education. After my grandparents gave their daughter away to her husband's family, they had dispensed all the adventure and all the property. They expected her alone to keep the traditional ways, which her brothers, now among the barbarians, could fumble without detection. The heavy, deep-rooted women were to maintain the past against the flood, safe for returning. But the rare urge west had fixed upon our family, and so my aunt crossed boundaries not delineated in space.
1.What does "the past" mean? They used the same method as what they did in the past to against the flood?
2."Safe for returning"<--- What does it mean? The women protected their houses and waited for men back home? Or preventing the flood return?
3.What does "rare" and "in space" mean?
No Name Woman – by Maxine Hong Kingston
https://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=t&r...WFUumdwOKE-Zq2
1.What does "the past" mean? They used the same method as what they did in the past to against the flood?
2."Safe for returning"<--- What does it mean? The women protected their houses and waited for men back home? Or preventing the flood return?
3.What does "rare" and "in space" mean?
No Name Woman – by Maxine Hong Kingston
https://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=t&r...WFUumdwOKE-Zq2
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