Questions for Essay Two

作文答题2

Within the scopes of the questions below, share your thoughts on self, family and society (holism and individualism); No less than 500 words. 

• Self-awareness of an individual, the family into which one is born, and social duties one bears to the nation are three overlapping modes of being social 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 mode or dimension seems the most stable and meaningful?

• At the end of A Kiss, the novelist speaks in first person singular voice. How do you interpret it: “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.”

• It has been a century since the May Fourth Movement (1919); Are these works of art still relevant today, especially to Americans? Is the term “holistic” or “individualistic” meaningful for then and now, or for China or America?