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Madeline George.
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Lin KuangQiu Jin was born in 1875 with excelent education and family background. She was a great writer. She wrote many jorful poems about domestic activities. She also wrote about Chinese female heros and warriors. She has strong self-confidence and desire to become a strong female writer. Her tragety started her marriage with a wealthman under her fatherś arranged marriage. She was very unhappy about her marriage and depicted her husband "...He treats me as less than nothing..." and "When I think of him my hair bristles with anger, itś absolutely undearable."Her poems in this period reflected her self-doubt and loneliness.She started to writing poems about current events and the fate of China. Later on, she went Jpan in 1903, she became vocal in her support for womenś rights.. She viewed the traditional families as oppressive to women. She became very well-known as brave woman to help the poor and weak. She sacrificed her lif efor her belief at the age of 31.
Madeline GeorgeSweet Bean is a beautifully filmed movie. Bright cherry blossoms, steam, pots of beans and even the pancakes frying on the griddle are pretty. The story revolves around three characters: Tokue, and old lady with leprosy, Sentaro, a man convicted of manslaughter who makes dorayaki , and Wakana, a teenage girl who doesn’t want to go to high school. All three seem to have a secret and all three seem a little broken in the beginning of the film.
In the beginning of the film Sentaro is making the dorayaki, that people apparently tolerate,but don’t enjoy. Wakana visits the shop and takes the reject treats to feed to her beloved canary, that her mother and the landlord are making her get rid of. Tokue is a kooky old lady who shows up at the little shop asking for a job. She’s in her 70’s and Sentaro turns her down, sending her on her way with one of his subpar dorayaki. Wakana also says she would like a job as his assistant. The next day, Tokue shows up critiquing Sentaro’s dorayaki, she says the pancakes are decent but the bean paste is just not good. She leaves him with a container of her homemade bean paste. Of course it is incredibly good and the next day when Tokue shows up again, he hires her to make the bean paste for his dorayaki. He learns, and suddenly people are lining up to buy dorayaki at this shop. Ultimately the shop’s owner’s wife shows up to tell Sentaro he must fire Tokue because Tokue has leprosy . Sentaro doesn’t fireTokue and no one is coming to buy dorayaki anymore. Ultimately Tokue is fired and Sentaro and Wakana go to visit her at the sanatorium. .
The bosses wife comes to the shop and tells Sentaro her nephew will be cooking hence forth and Sentaro falls into a depression. He and Wakana return to the sanatorium to find Tokue has died of pneumonia . Toque’s friend bequeaths Toque’s cooking tools to Sentaro and Gives the two visitors a recording left to them by Tokue. The final shots are of Wakana happily going to school and of Sentaro happily selling dorayaki in a local park.