Red Scarf Girl Book Report

While some people say that the Cultural Revolution was good in the sense that it gave peasants more rights, I think it was considered the to be one of the largest setbacks in all of China's history. I believe this because not only did the event lead to over a million people suffering from both physical and emotional abuse, but it also greatly reduced the amount of education being taught to children. The Cultural Revolution caused so much turmoil that even today the people of China are still recovering from the past events. The Cultural Revolution was a movement started in 1966 by Chairman Mao (Mao Zedong). “It’s stated goal was to preserve true communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from

In fact, in many cases, it led to such extreme measures that the victim would die. In the book “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 elderly, such as when “Old Qian knelt on the washboard” (110). Though physical abuse got Red Guards what they wanted, it was

At this point, Ji-li wasn't only getting disrespected at school but also at her home. Ji-li was referencing to a Red Guard when she stated: “she threw the stamp album casually into the bag of things to be confiscated” (136). These stamps were Ji-li prize possession yet the Red Guards did not care and took them away because they were supposedly four olds. After the Red Guards were done with the search the house was a mess with clothes scattered everywhere. Ji-li’s house was not the only house raided, with no respect the Red Guards raided many houses that were also thought to have four olds hiding