Mother Wang’s Due Date
Editor: Henyee Translations
Wang Ling completely never expected that his short essay, in which he secretly complained about Father Wang docking his pocket money, would actually be shared by his teacher in the group, and then interpreted in such a way. A lot of people struggled when it came to the ability to interpret something subjectively, but teachers were mysterious creatures… Chinese teachers, in particular, were frequently able to extract from an essay some message which even the original writer didn't know about.
For example, some adjective was repeated in this and that sentence, thus expressing some emotion of the writer's…
But it could just be that the writer didn't know enough and could only use the same adjective over and over again.
Or as another example, an exclamation point at the end of some sentence was conveying what the writer felt.
The truth was that the kind of punctuation which a writer used at the end of their writing simply depended on their mood.