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    For Ji-Li Jiang, who lived during the Cultural Revolution in China, she had taken full responsibility for her family by the age of fourteen. The book Red Scarf Girl tells of her journey into maturity during two years in Communist China. Ji-li endured a lot of hardships that changed her outlook on life significantly throughout the course of the book. Ji-li’s outlook on life changed because of her proficiency in school, her dad being accused of being a rightist, and her landlord grandfather.

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    life turn around? Ji-li's life changed greatly in the memoir Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang. In the beginning, Ji-li was always thinking positively. As the story continued, she began to feel confused and upset. She found herself questioning everyone and everything she loved. When the story begins, Ji-li is happy and excited about life. She was a joyful and privileged girl who was happy to have what she did. She had a loving family and a wonderful place to live. Students like Ji-li were very smart,

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    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

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    and joyous, but the next you are hopeless and glum? Well Ji-li from the memoir The Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang has. Her life went from her being a child who was respected, and looked up to by other students to being disrespected by people that she did not even know. Once the Cultural revolution started Ji-li's life began going down hill. Just one little detail in Ji-lis' class status changed her life and it was not in a good way. Ji-li loved her family very much at the beginning of this story

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    book shows us that being loyal is the right decision and in the end, everything will work itself out. In the book The Red Scarf Girl, Ji-Li, a twelve-year-old girl who lived in China under the rule of Chairman Mao, was faced with a big problem that affected her everyday life. This problem was that her family background was not socially accepted in her time. Ji-Li lived in a time where the 4 olds, old habits, old customs, old culture, and old ideas, where socially unacceptable. If you had any of these

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    possessions are scattered and destroyed. Or, what if you had to risk and leave behind everything you love, in order to do the right thing? Ji-Li Jiang and Guy Montag experience and discover what it is like to live with these hardships. In Red Scarf Girl, Ji-Li Jiang has to make many difficult decisions. She has to make the decision between

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    Red Scarf Girl Essay

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    Revolution was a time of much confusion in china. The memoir Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang illustrates the chaos of that time. Ji-li’s experiences during this time period led to her point of view changing. Ji-li starts the Cultural Revolution full of progressive thoughts, but this quickly turns to confusion, and leads to an important choice, something that impacts the rest of her life. In the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Ji-li is full of thoughts of moving forward, and helping Mao’s work to succeed

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    Red Scarf Girl Analysis

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    country—suffered ridicule and false accusations based off their ancestry and their social class status. Jiang Ji-li tells of her own experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir, Red Scarf Girl. She was only twelve or thirteen years old when the revolution first started, and over the course a few years, everything went drastically downhill as the country reformed itself. The changes and revisions that Ji-li is experiencing are meant to be positive, but the effects that they have on her family and

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    The Red Scarf Girl Essay

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    In The Red Scarf Girl, the author Ji-Li, Ji-Li talks about her life growing up in China during the time of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. As a young smart and talented girl, Ji-Li gets invited to audition for the Liberation Army Dance group, but unfortunately, Ji-Li is not able to audition because her family was very wealthy. Chairman Mao proposes to get rid of the Four Olds which triggers the Cultural Revolution. Ji-Li’s life turns completely upside down; she no longer can go to her school, people

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    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 elements of capitalism in Chinese society. Her family becomes the target of government persecution, since her parents and grandparents are labeled

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