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Ji Li being surprised

 I decided to put a picture of the scene where Ji- Li reads the article that says that the Jang's are a landlord family. I think it was an important scene in the book because it shows a moment when Ji- Li gets really mad and really expresses her feelings. Adding, right after she reads that, she screams to her mom: "I hate this landlord family!" I could really feel what she was feeling because I already passed through various situations made by my mom and my life. I remember many times in Korea, when I had to go to academies without any opinion of mine. I would just have to do as my father and mother said. I would have a daily routine of various types of academies but during the same time every day. I would usually sleep at 2 or 3, since I had lots of homework to do. While others could have some free time, but that was all made by someone who was in a higher level than I was, who were my mom and dad. But I think I should thank my dad for giving me an opportunity to come to Brazil and study and have more free time. Also I should thank my mom, since she gave me the opportunity to get better grades than most parents would expect I would, and for getting me my own technological devices. Which led me to great success and given me my benefits for life.

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4. Describe a choice made by a character in the novel.  Why did the character make this choice?  Was his or her action justified?
   
   
   
   
    The main character in this book was Ji Li Jiang. But I would like to talk more about Ji Li's father, who had made the influence of Ji Li's family's dark past, which made them the Half- City Jiangs. As in the story Ji Li gets to meet her father. But after taking what he needs, he ran away. Why? Now I don't know why he had to do that. But one of the prediction is that he decided it would be safer for his family to survive, because there were hard times for all the family because of one person. So he decided to leave the family by themselves to make them more comfortable and easier to live.
   
   
   I think it would for the sake of his life and his family's lives. But I think it wouldn't have been for Ji Li at that time. He literally sacrificed himself for the rest of the family, for his mother, daughters, wife, and others. But it would have been a hard choice to leave the family without a proper man adult to protect his own family ( wife, daughters). But he did a justified action to save his family from being the sacrifice of all the people. He just ran away without anyone which made him the easier target, and made the family have a better life.
   
   

   

   Ji Li's dad

   
   

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 Question. How does the protagonist change from the beginning to the end of the novel?  What does this character learn about himself (or herself) and about how the world works?

Starting off, the protagonist before chapter 13 was about Ji Li Jiang learning about herself, and learning why she was so specially important due to the cultural revolution. I think the setting was mostly learning about herself in school, as in most people learn it by themselves after lots of failure like Buddha. But this was more "planned" because her family members would feel ashamed and disappointed because of teaching her lately. So she had more time to think about herself in school than with her family. Getting to the point, Ji Li's family wanted to keep their past as the prisoner, and the family members as guards for the prisoner. Which Ji Li became the prisoners friend and tried to get the prisoner out for herself. But the guards were strong enough to block her off. So she changed from shy and curios, to aggressive and with power. She wants to get that prisoner to get out so eagerly, because she wants to find out who it is.

the prisoner, the black past of Ji Li Jiang

Ji-Li Jiang, discovers new thinks about her family a little bit at a time for example on the book Ji-Li discovers that her grandfather was a landlord and her father was a rightist. Which gave her more information about how to get the prisoner out. Which gave her a whole new point of, "Who am I?" Now getting the information, she begins to think, "Who were we, were we also a wealthy family before?", " Would we have been the great history for China if Mao wasn't there?" That made her think that the world was fair to some people, and not to the others.

Who am I?

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The book Red Scarf Girl takes place in one of the most important times in Chinese history, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, also known as the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was a social political movement that took place in People's Republic of China from 1966- 1976. The Revolution was launched in May 1966 (Mao Zedong). Mao officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, but its active phase lasted until the death of the military leader Lin Biao in 1971. After Mao's death and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976, reformers led by Deng Xiaoping gradually began to dismantle the Maoist policies associated with the Cultural Revolution (After Mao's Death).

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On August 8, 1966, the party's Central Committee passed its "Decision Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution", later to be known as the "Sixteen Points." This decision defined the Cultural Revolution as "a great revolution that touches people to their very souls and constitutes a new stage in the development of the socialist revolution in our country, a deeper and more deep stage."Adding on, at August 18, 1966, over a million Red Guards from all over the country gathered in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing for a personal audience with the Chairman, Mao. Because he had ordered them to do so, as well as they obeyed him.

Red Scarf Girl

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Red Scarf Girl

By:Ji Li Jiang

After Story of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Q1. Which ideas in your novel are connected to its particular setting, and which ideas are still relevant today?

A: The classic novel, Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang, is a biography that won the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People (Ji- Li Jiang, author of Red Scarf Girl, Biography). The setting plays an important role in this story. This story takes place in China, at the time of cultural revolution in China called the Chinese Revolution. The Chinese revolution took place through 1949 ~ 1976 (After story of China). A reader can see it has related more to the setting of the Chinese Revolution. The setting in China and communist countries, and the thoughts that they have, in still in place today. Mao Zedong was the chairman of China during the Chinese Revolution. He was the leader of communism, which is a political system with a dictator ruling over their own country. Communist countries still have common thoughts about Communism, but Mao and the strong dictators from the past have mostly died for example President Fidel Castro, and more and more countries have now changed into democracy. Clearly in  Red Scarf Girl, one can sees the issues of family royalty, dealing with the dictator, and issues of growing up. The setting is mostly about the life of a girl during the Chinese Revolution.

Many of the ideas of this book are relevant today. Going on, China could have been a communist country, but because Mao Zedong died and his people didn't have the power and the thoughts that Mao Zedong had of making China the best communist country anymore, yet they didn’t continue to change like most communist countries. Adding on, there are still some problems that many people struggle with today. As mentioned, they still have a dictator Xi Jinping (Xi Jingping), they still struggle with Taiwan, and they still have poverty (Chinese Revolution). Literature sometimes meers history. Continuing, you can find that the Cultural Revolution of China has influenced lives and this novel. Concluding, many ideas are still relevant, which were influenced by Mao Zedong and his pack. But out of all relevant ideas, many will think, ‘ The most worst part of China is, they haven’t had any change in poverty, government, and their lives.’

  Communist, the bad wolves

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Many cultural revolution happened in the past and is happening and probably will happen. This cultural revolution is only one of the cultural revolution. This cultural revolution was made by Mao Zedong and Chiang. There had been a conflict with them with the government but time goes and they change their minds. But that doesn't go long because after the Japanese got out they tried to eliminate each other. That is how and why the Cultural Revolution happened. These cultural revolution happened also in Syria and other countries.




 Mao Zedong (on the right) made the country into a Communist country.
Chiang (on the left) tried to stop the country becoming a communist country.
He tried to make it into a democratic country.
But he failed and died eventually years later after his failure at the war.

Chiang

mao zedong

Have you ever thought of having to be careful of your words. You might have a lot, but this is way different. The reason is you could die because of cursing someone. You might have cursed someone on the street. But without them noticing. But because of the secret police, you might become the next victim. You would have to wear in a way the person orders you. You would have to do as they say. So if they don't like what you do, sayonara whoever you were. But this similar problem is happening somewhere. Somewhere around the world you might not have been to. If you know it, you might be right. It is Syria. They are having a war due to whatever the government did. We have no idea how long this will go, but we should have one wish. To have peace around our world and try to protect our nature. 

                                          peace

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