Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Week 7, Post A

“I folded the fan and put it away. Snow Flower had asked me to write back. I didn’t” (221). In this novel, Lily and her laotong, Snow Flower, communicate with each other by writing on a fan. In America, people communicate by writing letters, and now-a-days they write emails. The traditional writing on the fan in China is a great contrast to the ways of writing in America. This type of writing also was a bond between the two women and had a huge impact on their lives, because it was a way of recording their history together. But in America, we write letters or emails to other people to communicate what’s happening at the present or future time.

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