A thousand years of good prayers review

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Subject Area:Literature

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Shi stays with his daughter in America. He tries to intervene in the marriage of his daughter that has just ended, but the daughter attempts to cover him up by telling him that she knows he is no longer a rocket scientist. Afterwards, he decides to be sincere with his madam friend too. The areas that I will cover from the story are the emerging themes. There are various themes that have been used to shape the story: family relationships, love, loyalty, betrayal, culture, conflict and friendship. That is the support that Mr. Shi comes to give his daughter. He tries to engage his daughter in the evening with talks of her job place and her friends. He also asks him about plans for her future to see what is in his daughter's mind.

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Sometimes Mr. The daughter admits to being the one who ended the marriage and that she was not abandoned as his father thought. She also admits having ended the marriage because of another man. Mr. Shi is shocked that her own daughter broke off her seven-year family for the sake of another guy. Mr. He tries to plead with his daughter to be more talkative and express herself more and what she is going through so that he can be able to understand her better. He explains to his daughter that he is there to help her and understand what led to the divorce of her marriage so that he can help her avoid such mistakes in the future. However, the daughter does not seem to break and talk about her issues; instead, she answers by closing the bedroom door at her father.

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