Red Scarf Girl... what I learned from the book...

From this book... I learned that I am not the one who had to learn to grow up so early... Living alone is hard but not as losing e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g that someone had. I can't imagine that happening to me... ㅠㅠ I would commit suicide... not caring about my younger sister as usual.. anyways.... another thing that I learned is that she has the courage to try new things.... that I don't. I want to have courage and be courageous enough that I get out of this little shell and expand both my knowledge and experience....

Red Scarf Girl (summary)

This autobiography is about Jili, the daughter of an actor, who is a bourgeois. She is rich, smart, flexible and an honor student. But the cultural revolution thing changes her status completely. Her respectable family suddenly becomes a five black category family and she also get called a black whelp. she loses many opportunities for life.... and her dream...the family wealth is all confiscated by the government and the adults of the family are becoming janitors and street sweepers/cleaners.By the end, it is unfortunate that Jili realises that she was tried to get brainwashed by the government into the communism way by force and that it worked. Later, she moved to US and lives happily with her family worrying about the future of China, the one that ruined nearly entire her whole life.

Red Scarf Girl (Theme)

I think that the theme of this book was much cultural revolution. Because this book is all about the girl who lived in China during the rule of Mao Zedong and when the cultural revolution took place. It is possible to view that the cultural revlution ruined many lives leaving them as brainwashed by the communism. It is mentioned that she got brainwashed and she hated the way that she was living in the epilogue. By the end, Jili admitted her life and got used to the cultural revolution. The theme, I think, is also one's effort to try to improve his/her life. well.... yeah... that's what I think it is because Jili tried very hard to improve her life that got ruined by the cultural revolution and that Mao Zedong guy...

Red Scarf Girl (Character)

Jili Jiang is the main character in this book. Jili shows leadership towards her siblings and learned to act like an adult even when she is younger than most of the people in our class... The character goes through many difficult situations and it is impossible for a teenager to go through something like that well is not common... It is also hard to go through a humiliation like Jili had from the government. Because her grand father was a land lord, she was considered a five black category and called a black whelp. She lost many opportunities to accomplish her dream. She was always the victim and eventually got brainwashed to the communist ways. I think that the cultural revolution takes a huge part of Jili's life. She was a great athelete, loved the bourgeois ways that she was provided with. But she lost everything. Her father, an actor, was forced to become a janitor and her grandmother and mother as street cleaners. She and her siblings were called a black whelp. They weren't allowed to do anything of their choice. But Jili went through all these problems courageously and was very intriguing to me.........

secret

Everybody has secret. some has little and some has a lot. I have a secret that nobody knows about. It's only me that knows about it. But if somebody finds out about it and tells everybody about it, that is not going to be pleasant. There are two secrets. There is a secret that you really want that other people finds out and there is a secret that you want nobody to know about. All the secrets are not kept as a secret always. Eventually, secrets are found out some way or the other. that is how the society works. The world is a dangerous place to keep a secret and one little clue or word could change your fate....

courage

I am not so courageous. I am selfish, sometimes too scared to do anything, but that is not the definition of courage. But there was once a moment in my life that I had to get over with courage. I think courage is something that comes to you when you are scared so much that you cannot actually not continue. (if it does make sense) When I was a 3rd grader, that was the moment when the worst events of my life started to happen. That was when I got bullied because I was a foreigner who is in the country without her parents. I missed my parents very much and it was hard to stay not crying when I saw my friends with their parents. a year later, I got much more courageous able to do nearly everything alone in the age of 9 years old. This was my moment of courage and it is likely the only one that I could remember