Blood Quotes

Question 1

What are blood quotes from Chapter 1?
- XS sells blood for the first time after meeting GN and AH
- learn about his simple life in the countryside
- he is juvenile and learning about the world

Answer 1

• (XS and grandpa): “Around here the men who haven’t sold blood can’t get themselves a wife”
  “Everyone who’s strong enough goes to sell his blood”
• (AF to XS): “You’ve just sold your energy… City folk call it blood, but we countryfolk call it energy”
• (XS): “You can’t spend that type of money on anything. I have to find something important to spend it on.”

Question 2

What are blood quotes from Chapter 23?
- HX hit by truck and has internal bleeding
- XS is bragging to neighbours about Old Man Heaven paying out in the end
- one of last moments of happiness before Cultural Revolution

Answer 2

• “…in my grandads village, they believe that the men who sell blood are stronger than the ones who don’t”
• “I’d continue to survive even if I sold blood everyday. Blood for me is like a money tree.”

Question 3

What are blood quotes from Chapter 20?
- family has eaten 57 days of corn flour gruel straight
- XS decides family must eat
- BCL is corrupt again
- XS is weaker than ever and XY is fed up

Answer 3

• “All I have left is my blood.” - during famine to feed his family
• “It’s not like it’s mere sweat. It’s blood after all.”

Question 4

What are blood quotes from Chapter 28?
- XS decides to sell his blood through 6 towns to Shanghai
- lots of talk about hot and cold
- refuses on 2nd day to go to doctor
- passes out on 3rd one and has to have blood transfusion
- introduces two brothers to selling blood (continuous loop)
- arrives in Shanghai and realises Yile lives

Answer 4

• “Your blood is like water in a well. It’ll never run dry, no matter how much you draw.”
• “When I was young… I thought selling blood was like shaking money from a tree… but that’s not how it is at all… if you keep on selling your blood, you’ll ruin your health.”
• “If you keep selling blood, all the warmth in your body escapes, and you just can’t get warm.”
• “I already sold all my strength. All I had left was my warmth… now even the little warmth that I had left is gone.”

Question 5

What are blood quotes from Chapter 29?
- Cultural Rev. is over
- XS is old man and wants to sell blood again for himself
- is refused by new blood chief
- XS walks through streets crying
- Sons don’t understanding crying
- XY gives a speech, standing up for husband

Answer 5

• “Today he would sell blood once again, but this time he was going to sell blood just for himself.”
• “he had overcome every family calamity by selling his blood. Now no one wanted his blood, what would be done if some calamity were once again to befall his family.”
• (XY’s speech): “You were raised on his blood.”