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Red Scarf Girl Personal Connection II
In the book, Red Scarf Girl, Ji-Li Jiang faces many challenges during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In the book, if a child’s family has a bad class status, they are expected to break away from their family and follow Chairman Mao. Ji-Li is given the option to break away from her family or stay with them and be criticized and have a difficult life. In the end she chooses to stay with her family instead of following the crowd and breaking away from her family like all of the other children with bad class status’ do.
I have been put in many similar situations where I must decide if I want to follow the crowd or not. The older I get the more it seems to happen. If a group of my friends are doing something bad and I know that it isn’t right I have to decide if I’m going to join in and follow the crowd or follow my instinct and do what is right for me. While I have to make that decision, my peers are pressuring me and trying to influence my decision, kind of like when Hong Change tried to convince Ji-Li Jiang to do her summer labor on the country side and follow Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary line (232) and when her father’s theatre group tried to persuade her to make a clean break from her family and show that is a true child of Chairman Mao (226). So Ji-Li and I face different challenges in life but in a way they are similar.
Article posted October 11, 2011 at 08:29 PM •
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