'Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu'

' sixer Records of a floating Life, is an exotic, pleasurable contemplate. The reason I plunge the word of honor to be so interesting was because to each one chapter was centered on a theme. Shen Fus archives did non make headway in chronological order. Rather he organized particularised outcomes in a thematic format. I found it particularly interesting to expect how events are told in one chapter, indeed retold in a assorted thinly in a consecutive chapter. Stories with different details provided distinctive insight into the most(prenominal) significant event in Shen Fus life. For example, at the barricade of the branch chapter, The Joys of the Wedding domiciliate, Shen Fu reveals that Yuns life would end prematurely by a dull illness. Foreshadowing of Yuns goal recurs many multiplication throughout the story. However, it is non until the chapter titled The Sorrows of Misfortune, when at last Shen Fu arrives at the moment of Yuns passing. I found myself i mbedded in the details of sextet Records of a float Life as Shen Fu unfolded his story spot by piece.\nAlthough Six Records of a Floating Life would not be the first gear book I would pick up when at Barnes and Noble, I am well-chosen to say I enjoyed story. I found the ending rather mysterious, This is the end of Six Records of a Floating Life, as we have it. around nothing is cognise of Shen Fus life afterward the conclusion of this chapter (144). Whoa drib hanger! mayhap he found know again. Perhaps he found a more fulfilling career. Perhaps he died a few months later. The military personnel may never know.\nI in addition admired Shen Fu and Yuns capacity to make a good succession wherever they went. This is rattling humbling to read because Shen Fu and Yun are so happy with so little. People straightaway are never seem to be satisfied with what they have. The problems Shen Fu and Yun grimace often buck modern day marriages apart. Shen Fe is uneffective to p ass the exams to force a magistrate. Yuns wellness problems are expensive. Shen Fu loses his fathers approval, therefrom financia... '