Refer to the story everything that rises must converge in the textbook explorations in literature. which excerpt from the story is an example of direct characterization?
well, she said, ‘you only live once and paying a little more for it, i at least won’t meet myself coming and going.”

“two wings of gray hair protruded on either side of her florid face, but her eyes, sky-blye, were as innocent and untouched by experience as they must been when she was ten.”

“it’s in the heart, “ she said, “and in how you do things and how you doing things is because of you are.”

“julian thought he could have stood his lot better if she had been selfish, if she had been an old hag who drank and screamed at him.”

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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