Notes

Chapter 15

Summary & Analysis

• Tara’s mother: support her husband and support/protect her children
• Sympathy for her mother

Mother quietly, urgently tells Tara that she shouldn’t “let anything stop [her] from going,” but as Dad’s footsteps approach the kitchen, Mother hurriedly turns back to her work.

• She has married the man, and that’s her faith.
• Divorce: maybe impossible at all
• Struggle between the husband and …
• Conflict between …, rational, very difficult to change
• Fatal?
• find the good balance between … and …
• Compromise?
• Question: if get divorced.
  • Education
  • Future family
• Divorce rate is so high in China? if having more than 1 child
• Two extreme
  • Keep the marriage
  • Get the rid of another guy
• Gene loves her daughter in his own way

Chapter 16: Disloyal Man, Disobedient Heaven

Summary & Analysis

• Tara called her dad, but …
• BYU
• Tyler: might be easier

Tara tries reading it, but is unable to distinguish the fictional story of Jean Valjean from the very real backdrop of the French Revolution—she is uncertain of which parts of the story are true and which are false.

Next session

• Homework: Finish Ch17 - Ch21
• Host Volunteer: Mia & Jizu

Updated: 30 June, 2021
Created: 30 June, 2021