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Pages 196-208<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A reading route prepared by\u00a0Paul, Alison, Owen (FLAC only)<\/p>\n

The Road Not Taken (by Robert Frost)<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
\nAnd sorry I could not travel both
\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood
\nAnd looked down one as far as I could
\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/p>\n

Then took the other, as just as fair,
\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,
\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;
\nThough as for that the passing there
\nHad worn them really about the same,<\/p>\n

And both that morning equally lay
\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.
\nOh, I kept the first for another day!
\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,
\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<\/p>\n

I shall be telling this with a sigh
\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:
\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I\u2014
\nI took the one less traveled by,
\nAnd that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n

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“Oftentimes, when you and A walked along <\/span>Chongjian Avenue<\/span>, the oldest street, you looked all around as you went down the stone steps. Every little alley you crossed made you feel as if you\u2019d missed an opportunity and would live to regret it. Then there were streets on which A had lived…” 177.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cNeither of you ever had a chance to learn if it\u2019d be fun to be gay. \u00a0You were too busy; in the space of a year or two, the emotions stirred up inside and all those tears that weren\u2019t necessarily shed in sadness constituted a great deal more than the sum total of what you would experience over the next twenty years.\u201d 113.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u300c\u4f60\u4eec\u4ece\u6765\u6ca1\u673a\u4f1a\u77e5\u9053\u540c\u6027\u597d\u4e0d\u597d\u73a9\uff0c\u592a\u5fd9\u4e86\uff0c\u4e00\u4e24\u5e74\u95f4\u7684\u4e8b\u513f\uff0c\u6240\u52a8\u7528\u7684\u60c5\u611f\u548c\u4e0d\u4e00\u5b9a\u662f\u4f24\u5fc3\u624d\u6389\u7684\u773c\u6cea\u8fdc\u8fdc\u8d85\u8fc7\u5176\u540e\u4e8c\u5341\u5e74\u7684\u603b\u548c\u3002\u300d135.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou had no idea when the incessant longing for far-away places, the desire to go on a long trip, to fly far and high, first came to you\u2026 You never tried to deal with this feeling, nor did you dare mention it to anyone, especially since there were always people who wanted to know whether or not you loved this place, even wanted you to hurry up and leave if you didn\u2019t.\u201d 134.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Since you couldn\u2019t read the Japanese script in the guidebook, you didn\u2019t know if the restaurants had been there before or were there now, but like the last time you visited the area, you chose not to go see for yourself.” 197.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cGiven your complex, even confused state of mind, you decided not to follow the guidebook\u2019s suggestion to visit the old sites of K<\/span>\u014d<\/span>kaid<\/span>\u014d <\/span>Hall or the Provincial <\/span>Yamen<\/span><\/i>.” 199.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our\u00a0reading route reflects on the meaning of Chu’s writing through the lens of Robert Frost’s poem,\u00a0“The Road Not Taken.” \u00a0A close reading of Frost reveals regret as a central theme of the poem; what\u00a0could<\/em> have happened if I’d taken the other road? \u00a0This passage addresses this theme fairly directly through symbolism: “Every little alley you crossed made you feel as if you\u2019d missed an opportunity and would live to regret it” (177). \u00a0Chu’s novella is full of such language, where the narrator reflects on days gone by and is haunted by\u00a0what\u00a0could<\/em> have been if she had made different choices.<\/p>\n

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We chose this passage because it most overtly addresses the relationship between the narrator and her friend, A. \u00a0Specifically, it reflects on the difference between the two years of the narrator and A’s friendship and the next twenty years of the narrator’s life. \u00a0In line with Frost’s poem, it seems to regretfully ask “what could have been different?” \u00a0The narrator feels that the emotions of those two years were greater and more consequential than anything that happened in the next twenty years without A. \u00a0This sentiment, combined with A’s\u00a0earlier musing\u00a0“Wonder if it’d be fun to be gay” (113) suggests that some of the narrator’s regret stems from wondering\u00a0what could have happened if they had a different relationship; whether this means just a closer relationship that endured or a romantic relationship is unclear to us.<\/p>\n

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Throughout “The Old Capital”, it is as if the narrator is split between conflicting identities. The theme of this passage is that she is torn between the reality she has now and the potential life she could live. It is something difficult to deal with because it is related to belonging, and where one fits in. The unidentified people try to make her choose between living her reality and following her fantasy. This passage ties into the themes of Frost’s poem because both acknowledge the difficult decision of which path to follow in life.<\/p>\n

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At this point in the novella, the narrator has returned from a visit to Japan where she intended to meet with A, but A never showed. \u00a0Returning to Taipei, the narrator joins a Japanese tour group on a whim. \u00a0This allows her to re-examine old locations from a new perspective, and through that symbolically re-examine choices she made or could have made earlier in life. \u00a0Such re-examination is aided by her not knowing how to read the map, which resulted in having to choose again whether to go certain places or not.<\/p>\n

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The reason we chose this passage is similar to our reason for choosing Stop 4: it displays the author’s symbolic re-assesment of her past in Taipei and what could have been. \u00a0In this instance, the artificial foreigness of Taipei is indicated through utilizing the Japanese names for locations such as K\u014dkaid\u014d Hall when translated.<\/p>\n

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