Essay Questions 2

思考题

Within the scopes of the questions below, share your thoughts on self, family and society; No less than 500 words. 请从以下几个方面谈谈你对个人、家庭和社会的看法。不得少于500字。

• Self-awareness of an individual, the family into which you were born, and social duties and allegiance are three interlocking circles or three-dimensional space in which people find purpose and meaning of their lives. In the cases of Black Li and White Li, Family, and Regret for the Past and New Woman, which circle or dimension seems most meaningful? Is China then a holistic and individualistic society? 个人、家庭与社会这三维空间的相互关系是什么？拿黑李白李，高觉新高觉慧，子君和韦明为例，哪一个空间维度最重要？

• At the end of A Kiss, the novelist speaks in first person singular voice, “But if she had a son and a daughter, if you will allow the person who wrote this piece a word, she would want them only to grow up, have good fortune, and not copy their mother’s example.” How do you interpret this line? 你怎么理解《一吻》的最后一句话，“假使她有儿女——容我说一句——但愿他们将来别学他们妈妈的样子”？

• It has been a century since the May Fourth Movement (1919); Are these works of art still relevant today? If so, in what way? 从五四到现在已经100百多年了，人们的认识已经又有了发展。请你说说你在今天的美国跟老舍、巴金、鲁迅、蔡楚生和师陀当年的看法在哪些方面有所不同。