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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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- She wanted us to know our alleys, to see what lay down them, to walk to the edge of our village and look out, knowing that soon enough all we would see was what we could glimpse from the lattice window of the women's chamber.†
Chpt 2lattice = regular crisscross grid that repeats in a pattern of squares or diamonds
- We didn't see any adults—the men worked in the fields and the women stayed in their upstairs chambers behind lattice windows—but the alleys were occupied by other children and the village's animals: chickens, ducks, fat sows, and piglets squealing underfoot.†
Chpt 2
- I wanted to run to the lattice window and peek out, but already my feet ached as the pressure on my bones built and the tightness of the bindings blocked my blood's circulation.†
Chpt 3
- Grandmother and Elder Sister moved to the lattice window and looked out.†
Chpt 3 *
- Then she sat on a stool with her back to the lattice window.†
Chpt 4
- Moonlight came in through the lattice window, illuminating Snow Flower's face.†
Chpt 5
- All the time, I looked out our lattice window.†
Chpt 5
- I might write: Today Mama taught me how to make sticky rice wrapped in taro leaf Snow Flower might write back: Today I looked out my lattice window.†
Chpt 6
- On the chosen day I waited by the lattice window, watching for the palanquin to come around the corner.†
Chpt 6
- Snow Flower answered, "Yes, Auntie," but I could tell she wasn't listening, because she was standing on the street, staring straight up to the lattice window, searching the shadows for my face.†
Chpt 6
- They were standing outside the threshold, and their conversation carried up to me at my spot by the lattice window.†
Chpt 7
- Madame Wang guaranteed that Beautiful Moon and I would be able to see Jintian and possibly even Snow Flower's window from our new lattice windows.†
Chpt 7
- The last notes floated out the lattice window and down the alley.†
Chpt 7
- Outside the lattice window the white-hot sky of summer eased into the deep blue of autumn.†
Chpt 7
- We pushed our bed under the lattice window, hoping to catch a cool breeze, but there was none, just torrid stillness.†
Chpt 8
- But beyond that, I was allowed only to look down from the lattice window to the alley that passed by our house.†
Chpt 9
- On another level, we made a women's chamber, with lattice windows done in intricate paper cutouts that provided views in every direction.†
Chpt 9
- I was sad I would be leaving my family, but just as I had with my footbinding I tried to see something bigger—not that tiny slice of life I could see from our lattice window but a panorama like the ones Snow Flower and I saw when we peeked out the window of Madame Wang's palanquin.†
Chpt 10
- Snow Flower and I went to the lattice window.†
Chpt 10
- Instead of vertical bars on the lattice window, an intricately carvedwooden screen covered the opening.†
Chpt 11
- Snow Flower's younger brother visited one day and glued paper against the lattice window.†
Chpt 11
- The interior walls are paneled in the fine woods of our hills, while the rooms are highly ornamented with carved columns, lattice windows, and balustrades.†
Chpt 12
- I look out the lattice window to yours.†
Chpt 13
- I liked to sit at the lattice window and watch her.†
Chpt 13
- I sit at the lattice window and look across the fields to my home village.†
Chpt 13
- I looked out the lattice window toward Jintian, wishing that I could at least see Snow Flower.†
Chpt 13
- The concubines might look out the lattice window and see my palanquin veer to the right toward Jintian.†
Chpt 13
- Snow Flower's lattice window was even smaller and less decorated than the one in my natal home, though I could see through it to my window in Tongkou.†
Chpt 15
- The moon was nearly full, and the blue light that came through the lattice window transported me back many years.†
Chpt 15
- So many times sitting at my lattice window I'd imagined walking here.†
Chpt 15
- In the afternoons Snow Flower sat with me as I did my embroidery, but she gazed out the lattice window, her mind elsewhere.†
Chpt 17
- Once they left, I sat in my chair by the lattice window.†
Chpt 17
- I look out my lattice window to yours.†
Chpt 17
- I folded the paper and slipped it through the tiny lattice window and into the upstairs chamber of the flower tower.†
Chpt 17
- I paid the diviner and from Snow Flower's lattice window watched as he got into his pony-drawn cart and trotted off down the road.†
Chpt 18
- At night, in bed together under the lattice window, the moonlight bathing us, we were transported back to our hair-pinning days.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(lattice) regular crisscross pattern of lines or points that forms a repeating grid of squares or diamondsregular crisscross grid that repeats in a pattern of squares or diamonds
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)