Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Discussion questions for "Kitchen

Hi ladies, wakeup! Let’s get “kitchen” ready for the reunion with our professor after her “Fat” Chinese Spring Festival vacation. We all know the limits in our kitchen compare to the ones she had seen in China. However we could still satisfy her taste buds if we have the essence.

Here are few questions to serve as “Bricks” hopping to attract “Jade”. I’d appreciate your generosity for posting more questions.

1. What Tanabes’ Kitchen looks like? What is it different from kitchen we normally see?

2. What impression you have on Tanabes’ personalities after saw their kitchen?


3. How the author described Yuichi and Eriko when using of “Light”? How would you relate it to their personality?

4. What do you think Eriko’s transsexuality adds to this story? Explain how you think Mikage’s and Yuichi’s love affair would have been different if Eriko had just been a mother who worked at a nightclub.


5. What are the scenes surprised you through the book? Will you please mark the pages and share with the rest when we meet?

6. In the book, few deaths are mentioned, what are the emotions you see in the book? What are not?

14 comments:

五嶽獨尊 said...

Many thanks to Xiaozhu for her very well thoughtout questions.

I guess I did not pay enough attention to details when I read it so I have to go back in order to answer thoes insightful questions.

Let's gear up and let our kitchen light up too.

雪 said...

Xiaozhu almost raised all questions I have for "Kitchen", it really took me a while to come up with following:

1.Mikage除了被Eriko极美的外貌吸引外,是否还有心灵上的感应?读这本书时,你有否惊叹作者丰富的想象力?一个变性人通常让人有些好奇有些距离,象当今的李宇春,为何作者笔下的Eriko会那么让人同情甚至让作者产生“爱意”?

2.Mikage为何对厨房情有独衷,这和她小时候的身世有什么关联?有什么东西或地方甚至人会影响了你这辈子的人生?

潇竹 said...

Thank 电影迷 and 雪for your questions and encouragement! This is really an excellent learning experience. Look forward to our meeting.

五嶽獨尊 said...

I don't know if someone could be 对厨房情有独衷. Mikage likes cooking so much. That is for sure. For me, cooking is something I have to do not like to do, but I would enjoy a big, airy, clean and bright kitchen :-)

五嶽獨尊 said...

I don't know if someone could be 对厨房情有独衷. Mikage likes cooking so much. That is for sure. For me, cooking is something I have to do not like to do, but I would enjoy a big, airy, clean and bright kitchen :-)

五嶽獨尊 said...

I wish I had been touched by something in my childhood which would have changed my life. In such a case I won't be here discussing books with you, I'm sure of it :-)

潇竹 said...

I would enjoy cooking if it would be appreciated afterwards. My motive really is to make myself happy in the end. What a selfish being! *_* Seriously I enjoyed cooking after watched Da Chang Jin. That’s the only Korean TV series I watched and liked. Sometimes I do put my heart and mind in cooking for my own happiness. But I've been busy with other things really don't cook much. So don’t expect I would cook anything for you ladies. I know you all would appreciated regardless, because your kindness, how bad they taste.

五嶽獨尊 said...

Book reading (Kitchen) -> TV series -> cooking -> food sharing ->

Ladies, Xiaozhu has given us another assingment ;-)

Remain silent or cook for the meeting? It is your choice. Better adapt "堵住你们的嘴" strategy.

五嶽獨尊 said...

这个主题太有说头了, 没看书, 不要紧. 谁没在厨房煮过饭, 原始的,现代化的, 有没有超现代的厨房?

谁没有过爱, 有过伤感,有过失落, 面对孤独,谁没有尝过生离死别的滋味?

大雁 said...

我喜欢厨房,打开冰箱,就知道今天做什么,就像写篇文章,满脑子的思路和想象。 我会注意颜色,味道,造型。东拼西凑就是一盘菜。看着大家吃着我做得饭菜就是一种享受。多么劳累以觉得值得,高兴。

下个房子,一定满足自己的爱好,搞个中式厨房,操作台要非常顺手,炒菜的声音,盘子的声音像交响乐一样,等机会实现梦想。

潇竹 said...

你应享有“厨房艺术家”头衔。

五嶽獨尊 said...

提议大雁开一个厨房锅碗瓢盆交响曲的线,讲你如何在厨房里搞创作.

潇竹 said...

同意电影迷的提议。建议扩为食色艺术特线。在邀性学专家竹林子和旅游作家电影迷为专线增色。

五嶽獨尊 said...

我还特想听旅游迷刘姥姥惊险出游记 :-)