Death and the King's Knight, Balzac and the Little Chinese Dressmaker, and The Narrator all have multiple messages that can be obtained by reading these novels. Due to the large number of messages that can be obtained during the readings, the authors have many different, but also many similar messages within the books. While reading these novels, the authors show great personal growth and change, great empathy and compassion for others, and also a great picture of what life is like in other cultures. Balzac and the Little Chinese Dressmaker written by Dai Sijie, is a story about re-education focusing on the Cultural Revolution era. This story starts early and gives you an idea of ​​what life was like in those days in China. The story is told by a seventeen-year-old boy, whose father and mother are well-known doctors throughout China. The young man and his friend are sent to a village on Phoenix Mountain to be re-educated. Once the narrator and his friend Luo are transferred to this village, they immediately begin the process of re-education which involves an excessive amount of manual labor. While there, both boys meet and feel an attraction to the local tailor's daughter, the little seamstress. The little seamstress can be described as beautiful and delightful but she does not have any kind of education or ability to read. In those days, China was so heavily repressed that anyone being "re-educated" is allowed to read books of any kind, with the sole exception of the little book of sayings written by Chairman Mao. A character named Four Eyes, the son of a poet, has a hidden compartment full of Western novels. The kids w...... middle of the paper...... is giving us an understanding of another culture that even most readers are not used to. When reading these novels, with all the similar messages you get within them, each other's main message is similar: a better understanding of cultural difference. Authors Dai Sijie, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Wole Soyinka all exemplify what life is like in other cultures and regions of the world. The Machiguenga, the Yoruban tribe, and the people involved in the Cultural Revolution era, are all times and people that we will never understand or have to experience firsthand because of our origins. The life we ​​are used to is so different from how it appears from the readings of these books, that these authors express that even if it is different, we should exclude all lifestyles, even if we do not fully understand their beliefs.