Date kernel follow-up continued as follows: My friend carefully and carefully buried the date kernel in her back garden, quietly gazed at the newly upturned ground, and said quietly, "Next year I will see it sprout, and in two years' time I will see him grow up into a sturdy little tree, just like our country.

For the next few years, we corresponded by letter on both sides of the ocean. In addition to asking me about my family and my recent health, she told me how her date palm, under her careful care, sprouted, took root, and spat out stamens, just like her child, and could not bear to miss the surprise of every moment of its growth.

Later, she wrote back to me, saying that her recent physical condition is getting worse and worse, the only way to look at the green small jujube tree, the mood will be good, the body also feel clear and healthy. I couldn't help but feel a little sour, wrote back to her and said, "Why don't you come back, the soil and water in your hometown will support you.

After a long time, she did not write back to me. One day I received a letter from Philadelphia, not her letter, her daughter wrote to me on her behalf. The letter said, "My mother's health is failing, and she has been hospitalized for a long time. She misses me, so she asked her daughter to write this letter," and said, "The date palm tree is being taken care of.

Originally listened to my words want to come back, but the body is really can not, so asked her daughter to take care of the small date tree for her, and when she got well, I hope to collect a few date kernels for me to bring back to the country." I silently wrote back to her, telling her to recuperate. Then the ground went to the window, collected a few date palms and stored them, hoping that when she returned, she would see them.

Expanded:

< p>"The nucleus of the date" is well-structured, first of all, in the use of "nucleus of the date" to set up suspense. The author from the demand for the date kernel of the pen, the opening set a suspense: the use of strange. Friends to get the kernel of the jujube as a treasure, but the use of secret, but also make a mystery, so that the suspense is more attractive to people's attention, until after the visit to the garden conversation to explain the reasons for the kernel of the jujube, to solve the suspense.

Structural sophistication is also manifested in the use of "jujube" as a clue throughout the text. The kernel of the date, the distance between the people together, the friend's heart and hometown together. A few raw jujube kernels in a foreign land, "Zongbu Hutong" that small courtyard will be with the "North Sea" together in front of my friends, to add a little solace to the heart of the traveler.

Reading later, who can see, in the minds of Chinese Americans, the "weight" of these date palms is equal to the hometown of the native land, date palms is a narrative clue, but also a cohesive feelings of nostalgia emotional clues.