What're 2 examples of imagery in The Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress? With text evidence.

 

• The two examples of imagery in the "Balzac" and "The Little Chinese Seamstress"

-The two symbols that are central to the story and that represent the Cultural Revolution in China are violin and violin strings. Therefore, the violin itself is the more clearly understood symbol as it was literally one of the symbols of Westernism that the Cultural Revolution threw to the exact quantity of sacrificed objects of culture. It starts by highlighting this symbol:

"My violin was the sole item that exuded an air of foreignness, of civilization, and therefore aroused suspicion."

• The cultural revolution was intended to get rid of capitalist thought and Western Culture, with its middle-class components essentially music and art, from China. To that end, youths were refuse educations, in order to avoid, they become Western style intellectuals, and were sent to live with peasants to be re-educated.

" his investigation was so enthusiastic I was afraid the strings would break."

• The early emphasis on violin strings which represent a more fine symbol. In chapter one, the narrator is frightened that his violin strings will break under the "enthusiastic" examination they are experiencing.

-Therefore, it connotes one theme, which is lamenting the broken conditions of China after the careful and "passionate" examination that free Chinese life of capitalistic and Westernizing elements that might corrupt the "pure" countryman mentality that results in more "young intellectuals."

Step-by-step explanation

• "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" The Little Chinese Seamstress? Is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Dai Sijie, and published in 2000 in French and in English. It takes place during China's "Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside" movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, which sought to re-educate young intellectuals by removing them from their urban homes and sending them to rural areas to work and learn from the countryman. Furthermore, he expresses various themes through out the story, which are knowledge, maturity, Western world, re-education, and beauty.