Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Snow Flower chapter sons


  According to book, how many times a wife have to be pregnant?
They must get pregnant every one or two years. They hope to have 5 children who reach adulthood. Many of those babies die through miscarriage, at childbirth or from illness.

Who was the first to get pregnant Snow flower or lily?
Snow flower was the first to have a son and she immediately wrote a letter to lily. Lily gets pregnant one month later.

Why do they call these RICE and SALT days?
Because they are composed of common chores, making shoes, cooking meals, washing the dishes, cleaning the house, and being ready at night to do bed business with a man you still don’t know well.

 What did Snow Flower’s husband think about she gets pregnant of her daughter?
Snow Flower told Lily that she was pregnant and she wanted that the baby was a boy because her husband said that it’s better to have a dog than a daughter.

How many years pass when lily gets pregnant again?
Three years after Lily’s first son was born, the second son arrived. Snow Flower didn’t share the good luck of the Lily’s destiny because she was sad.

Why snow Flower didn’t get pregnant again?
Because she tries many times after her lost but nothing happened.

OPINION:
What we learn about this chapter is that many children died due to the miscarriages and illness. Stillbirth was considered dreadful only if the baby was a son, if a stillborn child was a girl, parents were usually thankful.
They suffer a lot because they not only have to marry with someone that they don’t know but also have children when they are not preparing yet. They were very young and had to leave apart of their real family.








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