Yun Liu

The book Sounds of the River was a book that affected my viewpoint of China. I personally do not like this book because this author is using his perspective talking about something that only happened to a specific type of people in China. For exam

The book Sounds of the River was a book that affected my viewpoint of China. I personally do not like this book because this author is using his perspective talking about something that only happened to a specific type of people in China. For example in the previous of the book, there was an old lady on the train. However, she was a really rude lady that took Da's sit on the train. Although Da was holding his ticket and showing that he owned this spot, the old lady was not going anywhere. Then Da was looking for some help of people who sit nearby and finally stood out, helped him took his spot back. This was not usually happened at that time period, but that could be one of the possibilities. The way that he talked about this point was not a positive emotion, and he did not even talked about the possibility. This could cause some misunderstanding of some readers that are from other countries by giving them a bad impression of Chinese’ old men and women.

Once I got to the end of this book, I found out that he was actually lucky to studying in America, but he did not only work hard. He got lucky in his way to studying English. He got a great teacher, who would like to support him until the end of his journey and he got great parents, who would let him go to a far place from his home. At that time, Chinese parents did not like to let their children go far away from them because the war just ended and everybody wanted to protect their children under a safe place, but he got lucky to have that kind of parents, who would not mind him to go to America.

However, this book gave me some good impression, for example, I found out that this book’s title Sounds of the River is talking about the author’s mind and thought during this way studying English. He thinks that his way of learning English was like a river and he was following the sounds and got into MBA. This is a great thought from the author and this is a great point to point out.