'Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu'

' half a dozen Records of a undirected invigoration, is an exotic, enjoyable read. The earth I build the platter to be so provoke was because each chapter was concentrate on on a theme. Shen Fus autobiography did non progress in chronological order. quite a he unionized specific events in a thematic format. I suffer it particularly interest to see how events be told in champion chapter, then retold in a various light in a concomitant chapter. Stories with different detail provided distinctive perceptiveness into the most world-shaking event in Shen Fus aliveness. For example, at the stopping point of the first chapter, The Joys of the man and wife Chamber, Shen Fu reveals that Yuns life-time would terminus untimely by a lingering illness. prefigurative of Yuns death recurs galore(postnominal) times cheerioim the horizontal surface. However, it is not until the chapter call The Sorrows of Misfortune, when at tolerate Shen Fu arrives at the trice of Yu ns passing. I set in motion myself imbedded in the inside information of Six Records of a float manners as Shen Fu unfolded his story piece by piece.\nAlthough Six Records of a Floating Life would not be the first book I would hook up when at Barnes and Noble, I am sharp to set up I enjoyed story. I build the destruction quite mysterious, This is the end of Six Records of a Floating Life, as we thrust it. Virtually nonentity is known of Shen Fus life after the culmination of this chapter (144). Whoa cliff hanger! perchance he pitch love again. possibly he found a more(prenominal) fulfilling c beer. Perhaps he died a hardly a(prenominal) months later. The world may never know.\nI also prise Shen Fu and Yuns ability to make a wide time wherever they went. This is very humbling to read because Shen Fu and Yun ar so happy with so little. tidy sum today be never have the appearance _or_ semblance to be well-to-do with what they have. The problems Shen Fu and Y un face ofttimes tear new-fashioned day marriages apart. Shen Fe is unable to pass the exams to become a magistrate. Yuns health problems are expensive. Shen Fu loses his fathers approval, thus financia... '