The Red Scarf Girl Questions & Answers 1. How does Ji-li’s opinion about the Communist Party and its beloved leader‚ Mao Ze-dong‚ change over the course of her story? Name some of the most crucial events in the autobiography and explain how they change Ji-li’s feelings about the party. Ji-li never stopped believing in Mao because everyone was brainwashed into thinking he was good‚ like she says on the first page; “Heaven and earth are great‚ but greater still is the kindness of the Communist
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Red Scarf Girl Essay The Cultural Revolution was a time of much confusion in china. The memoir Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang illustrates the chaos of that time. Ji-li’s experiences during this time period led to her point of view changing. Ji-li starts the Cultural Revolution full of progressive thoughts‚ but this quickly turns to confusion‚ and leads to an important choice‚ something that impacts the rest of her life. In the beginning of the Cultural Revolution‚ Ji-li is full of thoughts of
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writing of the da-zing-baos (written forms of propaganda) and Ji-li was humiliated because of the writing on the posters. The downfalls of the Cultural Revolution started to begin. The Cultural Revolution was a time of much confusion in China. The Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang illustrates the chaos of that time. Ji-li’s experiences during this time period led to her point of view changing. Ji-li starts the Cultural Revolution full of progressive thoughts‚ but this quickly turns to confusion‚ and leads
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In the novel Red Scarf Girl‚ by Jiang Ji-li many bad things happen to Jiang Ji-li and her family. One such thing is Ji-li being put in a worse school just because she was in a certain neighborhood. This is very similar to the story of Zhao Lianhai‚ who spoke out against the government’s idea to force kids to drink tinted milk‚ which ended up killing at least 6 kids. Another example of bad thing going on in Ji-li’s life is when her teachers‚ who before were highly esteemed‚ can now no longer teach
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Feelings of Sympathy There is nothing worse than the act of betrayal. Jiang Ji-li‚ a girl who was always praised by her teachers and always felt warmth in her home started to be exposed to the real world and how people can walk away from those who were there for them their whole life and treated as if they were non existent. She never thought that her fellow peers could deceive her‚ betray her. Who would have ever thought that the same people who Jiang Ji-li kindly helped with their home work could
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The Cultural Revolution that took place in the 1960’s and 70’s had a major impact on the citizens of China‚ and is represented throughout literature in a multitude of ways‚ as shown in the passages Red Scarf Girl and China’s Cultural Revolution. With these differentiating ideas used in both passages‚ people who learn about this topic can thoroughly understand these facts on deep emotional levels if there are ways to get a full picture of the historical events that took place. In other words‚ since
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Brandon Tran 7/20/15 Red Scarf Girl: Entry 1 “Yes. Your classmates may talk‚ and our neighbors may talk. We can’t help that. You may not be able to join the Red Successors… don’t be ashamed… it isn’t your fault.” Chapter 4 pg. 61. In the story so far‚ Jiang Ji-li was involved with conflicts of the changing world around her in the Cultural Revolution. She is left lost of trying to decide between staying as a “black” child continuing to indulge all the discrimination and punishments her family receives
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Red Scarf Girl By: Ji Li Jiang Red Scarf Girl is a story that deals with the courage of a girl and her family when they are struggling to survive during China’s Cultural Revolution in 1966. Ji Li Jiang‚ the author‚ tells her story about the hardships that herself‚ family and friends went through. Also the lessons that they learned. Chairman Mao Ze-Dong‚ China’s leader launched the Cultural Revolution that was intended to "break with the old and establish the new." This brought hardships
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Kylie Hanks 15 September 2010 Tharp 3/4 Advanced ELA Red Scarf Girl The story starts off in 1966. Ji Li Jiang has the perfect life in a communist country‚ China. Then‚ the Cultural Revolution is launched… Casually called‚ Ji Li Jiang is participating whole-heartedly in class when a soldier requests she step into the hall. She is asked to perform many acrobatic tasks and accelerates at it. Sadly‚ her parents deny her the opportunity she was granted to become a dancer at the Liberation Academy
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read more than usual this past two weeks because I finished American Lightning last week and started a new book which I finished this week. I think I have read a total of about 400 pages‚ but most of it was from my new book‚ Red Scarf Girl. In my newest book‚ Red Scarf Girl‚ by Ji-Li Jiang‚ it retells the personal story of the author when she was a young child during the Cultural Revolution. If you don’t know what the Cultural Revolution was‚ it was an upheaval that overtook China from 1966 to 1976
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