Journal 13: Biography of Master Five Willows and Returning to the Farm to Dwell by T'ao Ch'ien

Read the two stories and write a 1/4 page response on each story/question (total of 1/2 page minimum).  Then cite ONE source within your response.

For example I used this website to help me understand Daoism.

http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~cesa/Three%20Confucian%20Values.pdf

So then in my response to The Return (which we read in class), would have a citation from the website within my response AND the MLA work cited citation at the end of my journal response.

this is just an excerpt from my longer journal response.

...and it is clear that Ch'ien does not hold Confucian values.  He wants to stay at home with his family rather than work at a prestigious location far away from home.   A Confucian value asserts the " . . .imperative of public service. . ." (Oxnam pg. 4, para. 8). Yet Ch'ien finds this "imperative" to be unnecessary since he seeks the tranquility of nature and the comfort of his own home.  He doesn't want to serve the public, rather he wants to enjoy the peace and instinct of his heart....

so I cited the work within my journal....AND I put proper a PROPER MLA CITATION AFTER MY JOURNAL! 


 Oxnam, Robert. Three Confucian Values. The Asia Society.  2002. Web. 17 April 2013.

              <http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~cesa/Three%20Confucian%20Values.pdf>.


Question 1 (Biography of Master Five Willows) :  What does the master advocate with his lifestyle?  (Question rewritten:  How does the way he live show his values?)

Question 2: (Returning to the Farm) :   What are some symbols to represent Daoism and Confucianism?    (Question rewritten: What images/objects in the story could represent different values held by the two philosophical traditions?)