The House Behind a Weeping Cherry reading

  Write a two-paragraph response. Choose an aphorism (an idea expressed in one or two sentences) from the Confucius reading. Explain what you think it means. Then, apply it to your other reading, Ha Jin's "The House Behind a Weeping Cherry." Describe the meaning from the story that the Confucius quote expresses (or creates). Confucius reading http://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/analects.1.1.html