"I stayed in this country home for ten years. If you ask me what I did during these long years, I can only say I waited between the trees. I had one eye asleep, the other open and watching."
The literary term I chose for this chapter is EPIGRAPH (a saying or statement on the title page of a work, or used as a heading for a chapter or other section of work). The title of this chapter, Waiting Between the Trees, is very clever, I think. It is continually repeated throughout the chapter. Ying-Ying keeps referring to herself as a tiger too. It is all a little confusing to me, but I think I figured out what she is talking about. I think it is about her being a watchful tiger and wanting her traits to be passed on to her daughter. And also she is always there between the two trees, watching.
No comments:
Post a Comment