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Enquiry title: Is it useful for students to attend tutorial class outside school? Description of the enquiry title: Nowadays, students always attend tutorial class outside school after school to improve their academic results. The tutorial school always use their star teachers to attract students to study in their school. However, is tutorial class really helping student to improve their academic results? Students are spending a lot of money to attend those classes, but can they receive improvements
long dead relatives; watch you classmates humiliate you in front of the class; Watch yourself needing to choose between family and future; Watch yourself only watching unable to help. Unfortunate, that was the reality for Ji-Li Jiang. Red Scarf Girl is a memoir written by Ji-Li Jiang, regarding the China cultural revolution between 1966-1976. Throughout the book,Family is important in defining who people are in Red Scarf Girl. Family is important in red scarf girl because people judge each other based
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang is an inspiring true story about a young girl who is forced to make an agonizing decision of country versus family. In her story of joy, sorrow, lament, resentment, and countless other perplexing experiences, she must decide whether she is her family's child or Chairman Mao's. In Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li is faced with the heart-breaking decision of her future, and finally after years of confounding peer and family pressure, she resolves to love her family. Throughout the
Harper Collins Publisher and has won many awards,such as the ALA award.The book also contains a forward by David Henry Hwang.The Red Scarf Girl will make you experience the Cultural Revolution on a gut level .The book was written by and is about Ji-Li Jiang,author of Magic Monkey King.Throughout this book, it reveals her struggles to find her identity, and her dilemmas that help grow as a person. This book helps grasp some of the cultural differences that are found between China and America. ____
The Red Scarf Girl take place during the Cultural Revolution, Ji-li and her family got caught in the savage change in china of the year 1966. Ji-li went through many hard struggles, as in losing and gaining friends, tough times with family, and because of her family, Ji-li was not allowed to do a lot of actives she wanted to do for examples; being a Red Successor and then a Red Guard. The reason there was a Cultural Revolution was because of Chairman Mao Ze-dong. The citizens trusted Mao with all
phase that would lead China into prosperity. As perceived in the novel, Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang, the revolution was by no means a peaceful movement in the eyes of Ji Li. The Cultural Revolution affected citizens in many different ways. Not only would it lead to the major shift in Chinese society, it would change the history of China forever.
Red Scarf Girl, A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang, is the personal narrative of a teenage girl from a “black family”. A bourgeois life of a family in Shanghai, China would soon come to a halt when the Chinese Cultural Revolution, led under the influence of Emperor Mao Zedong would change their lives forever. Red Scarf Girl was written when Ji Li Jiang moved to The United States of America. The book itself is was published in 1997 but, the story is set in 1966-1969 during the Cultural
“Red Scarf Girl” by Ji-li Jiang, we see many examples of the kinds of physical abuse used. Physical abuse was used on all ages of men and women, but a quote that stood out to me describes physical abuse to children. In this case, the author describes the labor-intensive work she had to do in the rice fields, stating “by mid-afternoon our backs seemed about to break” also adding “every muscle, every joint in my body was aching” (235). There were also plenty examples of when Jiang witnessed abuse to
brain. All the person can think about is achieving that power, no matter the cost. Ji-Li Jiang’s memoir, Red Scarf Girl, tells the personal narrative of a young girl growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China. Despite being a black whelp, the child of a family belonging to any of the “Five Black Categories”, Ji-Li Jiang is able to overcome the countless tribulations brought upon her and her family. Although Ji-Li’s naivety enhances her involvement in the Cultural Revolution, her constant loyalty
In Ji-Li Jiang’s Red Scarf Girl, the story is set in Shanghai, China. In 1966, Ji-Li Jiang is a happy little girl of twelve years. She looks forward to a future working for Chairman Mao's New China and his Communist Party. However, her happy life is suddenly interrupted by the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, a movement led by Chairman Mao, to remove all parts of capitalism in Chinese society. Her family becomes the target of government persecution, since her parents and grandparents are labeled
Girl” by Ji Li Jiang, the theory of Marxism is at play as Ji Li strives to help the reader understand the impact that the Cultural Revolution in China had on her family and on her country. By using the struggle between the social classes, Ji Li helps the reader gain a greater understanding of the negative impact that a corrupt government can have and often times does have on the lives of its people. As the reader moves throughout the novel, it makes sense why, by the end of the book, Ji Li Jiang would
Prologue The prolog of the Red Scarf Girl is about Ji Li's life before the Cultural Revolution started. Before this time, her family was very stable. Ji Li was a respectable girl, who wore her red scarf around her neck, received very high marks in school, and was the top of her class. When Ji Li was twelve-year-old when the Cultural Revolution started. Ji Li does very well in school and is very successful. One day she gets called down to the principles office. A liberation army recruiter came
Question 1: What was the name of Ji-Li’s new school? The name of Ji-Li’s new school is Xin-zha Junior High School. Short Answer - Question 2: What did Ji-LI’s new school teach the students using the new educational system and how does it represent what the Cultural Revolution was doing? Xin-zha Junior High School taught students English, Politics, Fundamentals of Industry and Agriculture, Math, and other classes instructed by Chairman Mao. Physics, Chemistry, and Biology was taken out. Chairman
The Cultural Revolution supported the poor and disliked the wealthy and middle class/upper class. In the book, Red Scarf Girl, the book described how Jiang Ji-Li, had to go farming rather than the Red Guard she could have been because she was a black whelp based on her family background. Mao ZeDong also said to “rely on the masses of poor, and working class, unite with labouring masses and strengthen working
Said a reminiscing, Chinese woman as she summarized her troublesome past in only one sentence. That woman was Ji-Li Jiang, author of children’s books such as The Magical Monkey King and Lotus and Feather. But one auto-biography has touched the hearts of many with its inspiring, melodramatic memoirs of a girl’s life during the Cultural Revolution. The Red Scarf Girl tells the story of Jiang as a twelve-year old girl in 1960s China through a central theme of having courage, even in the darkest times
After a careful overview of these two texts, Red Scarf Girl, and “How to listen #3” (102) from Brown Girl Dreaming, a deplorable tone shows up. Both texts are about different people and different events. Yet both of them create the same tone. After examining the poem “How to listen #3” by Jacqueline Woodson from the book Brown Girl Dreaming the worrying and anxious tone shows up. Jacqueline's grandfather is sick and it's not getting any better. He continually feels unwell and is constantly up
The book Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang takes place during the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai, China. The main character of the book, Ji-li, lives with her mother, father, grandmother, housekeeper Song Po-Po, and two younger siblings Ji-yong and Ji-yun. Ji-li always thought her life was perfect until one day she was taken out of class and asked to audition for the Liberation Army’s dance class. She became very excited, until her parents they told her she couldn’t try out because they will check her
obey.” - Unknown speaker. This quote is an overview of what is to come soon on in this essay, as we knew what the right decision was, but we appealed to emotion and overruled our logic. During the novels Dawn by Elie Wiesel, Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang, and The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu, we will see these themes take action and these characters react in a time of change and confusion. The novel Dawn takes place after World War II and tells the story of the Israeli resistance fighters
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