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Red Scarf Girl Analysis
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 or converting as a “red” child and letting all her worries drift away. I feel that she and her family doesn’t deserve the unnecessary prejudice just because of their class backgrounds because I think there shouldn’t be differentiating classes based on the generations that came before them. I can’t imagine how I would’ve handled it like Ji-li and her family whom can intake the negative comments and remain moving forward. “Landlord... The number-one enemies, the worst of the “Five Black Categories, even worse than criminal or …show more content…
They seemed unimportant to me now… I had promised to care for my family…”- Jiang Ji-li Chapter 19 pg. 261-262. In the beginning of the book, Jiang had different views of her family, opposing the statement she stated above. I feel that Jiang had a change of mind because of all the terrible occurrences she and her broken family are receiving. Since her father was detained and her family was in pieces, she had to hold the responsibility of keeping the promises she made. From her promises, Jiang set aside her dreams and the future she wanted for herself and traded it for her family instead. This to me expresses her selfless quality to setting others before her and learning to accept who she is while at the beginning she wanted to change everything about her, but she remained loyal to her family at the
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