Summary:
The main character continues to tell us about her past when she fell in love with an older Chinese man. She was still in high school. After they slept together, she started to spend as much time as she can with her man. She started to skip boarding school, and she would go over to his apartment and sleep together. He told her to continue lying to her mother and brothers because if they knew the truth, he would go to jail. They were both in fear because they loved each other. The teacher noticed that the girl wasn't in class or sleeping in the boarding school. The girl replied she couldn't help it but she'd be in class and in her bed at the boarding school every night. She did not want the teacher to inform her mother. Her mother and brothers shut her out of their lives, they barely show respect towards her and are only concerned about themselves.One day in school, everyone started to ignore her because she had been acting strange and her behavior wasn't acceptable. The main character is emotionally abused because she feels alienated. One day, her lover started to distance himself. He moved back to Cholon, and they don't get to see each other anymore. Everyday after school ends, she leave the school and looks out where the limo may be waiting for her. She thinks about all their times together. Toward the end of the book, the woman received a phone call, and it was from him. He wanted to hear her voice, and he told her he still loved her and will never stop loving her.
Quote:
"Departures. They were always the same" (Duras 117).
Reaction:
I felt bad for the narrator because she's already alienated by her mother and brothers. At school, no one speaks to her because she started to skip. The only person that was there for her was the Chinese man. The Chinese man ended up leaving her to go back to Cholon. When he left, the narrator did not have any one there for her and she became upset.
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