Hello world and welcome back to another week of Sierra's Weekly Sayings! For the past couple of weeks in my English class, we have been reading the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. This book is by far one of my favorites that I have ever read in any of my English classes. I have learned so much from this novel, such as what it is like to grow up during Mao's Cultural Revolution. The author has given me such a vivid idea of re-education that it is almost like I have lived through it. The two main characters of the book, known as the unnamed narrator and his friend Luo, have been living through it for months. Just reading about their day to day adventures and experiences gives me such a large idea of what re-education is like. I think that learning about a historical time in a fictional novel is more intimate than reading it straight from facts because when there are characters and someone for you to relate to and be apart of is something that draws people into the novel and becomes more intrigued by it. It also lets people experience this time as if they were in the book themselves, which is something really special. I overall love this book so very much and I will be sad when it comes to an end.

To end this post, one of my favorite quotes from the book itself,
" P.S. I just remembered something funny I wanted to tell you: since your visit I've come across several people whose second toes are longer than their big toes, just like ours. I'm disappointed, but that's life."
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 
Thank you for reading and I hope to see you next time!