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My Book Review on “Balzac”
Storytelling can be found in every corner of the world. It is used to pass
the time, tell of past or current events, and is the way that we
communicate with each other. In Balzac and the little Chinese
Seamstress, by Dai Sijie, storytelling occurs during times of hopelessness
when life seems hard and allows the characters to live vicariously through
the tales told. The narrator and Luo use storytelling as an escape from
reality in times of desperation. The tailor is influenced by the stories to
the point where he changes the style of clothing he creates to escape the
boundaries of Mao approved clothing. The importance of storytelling to
the little seamstress is that she learns the importance of beauty, and is
able to leave the current life she lives. Throughout the novel the
characters use storytelling to escape the reality of life in either a mental
or physical way.
Both Luo and the narrator use storytelling to escape the hardships of re-
education in their small town on Phoenix Mountain. An example of them
escaping their daily lives in a physical way was when they got to leave
town in order to see a movie. The boys would go to the small town of
Yong Jing, watch a movie, and put on an oral cinema show¨ for the
towns people when they returned. We got two days off for the journey to town and two for the return, and we were supposed to see the show on the evening of our arrival. Back home in the village we were to relate the film from beginning to end to the headman and everyone else, and to make our story last as long as the screen version.¡¨ (Sijie p. 21)
The narrator and Luo got time off of their hard...
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