English 10 IB
6/1/09
Ms. Peifer
Love Must Not Be Forgotten
In the beginning of "Love Must Not Be Forgotten", by Zhang Jie, the author tells the audience about her marriage predicament, and how she wants advice from her mother. She has a flashback about her mother told her what she should do about marriage, but really the whole story is about what the author should do about her marriage. The story is set mostly in flashbacks or in diary readings, and they are all about the mother's previous experiences with love and love lost and such. The daughter(the author) is reading the diary of her mother and she learns about her mother's experiences with marriage and love, and she gets the best advice from her mothers memory, not necessarily what her mother told her directly. Main themes in this story are mainly love, morals, and the bond that loves makes between individuals, however strange it may be.
Flashbacks are very very improtant in this short story, and they are the main set of ideas for the plot. The author learns most of the advice from her mother through her mothers diary and her flashbacks, so the flashbacks have a very large role in copleting the story and plot. Also the point of view of the narrator, which is the author and daughter, is important to how the audience unerstands the mains cahracters. The audience knows the feelings of the author because its in first person, but the audience only understands the mother through her diary and the flashbacks. Allusion is also present, but not in really a normal way. The audience should know about communism, and the author expresses her feelings about how, if in a perfect communist society, marriage would work out more for love than for bartering of family ties. Allusion is present here because the author assumes that the audience already knows about the communist society. A coflict is also present, but its not blatantly obvious throughout the story. The conflict is that of the love of the mother and this other man, and that love is never fufilled until the end of both of thier lives. This conflict is apparent through the diary of the mother, because she expresses her sorrow and anxiety over her love for this certain man, but she never makes the move to further the relationship. It is at a complete stand-still, and the fact that they don't ever admit their love to one another is the conflict in this story. The mood of this story is very sad and melancholy, and it is so because of the ever-present love of the mother for the long-lost revolutionist who she never ever makes true mental contact with.
Flashbacks are very very improtant in this short story, and they are the main set of ideas for the plot. The author learns most of the advice from her mother through her mothers diary and her flashbacks, so the flashbacks have a very large role in copleting the story and plot. Also the point of view of the narrator, which is the author and daughter, is important to how the audience unerstands the mains cahracters. The audience knows the feelings of the author because its in first person, but the audience only understands the mother through her diary and the flashbacks. Allusion is also present, but not in really a normal way. The audience should know about communism, and the author expresses her feelings about how, if in a perfect communist society, marriage would work out more for love than for bartering of family ties. Allusion is present here because the author assumes that the audience already knows about the communist society. A coflict is also present, but its not blatantly obvious throughout the story. The conflict is that of the love of the mother and this other man, and that love is never fufilled until the end of both of thier lives. This conflict is apparent through the diary of the mother, because she expresses her sorrow and anxiety over her love for this certain man, but she never makes the move to further the relationship. It is at a complete stand-still, and the fact that they don't ever admit their love to one another is the conflict in this story. The mood of this story is very sad and melancholy, and it is so because of the ever-present love of the mother for the long-lost revolutionist who she never ever makes true mental contact with.
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