I Hate Landlords Analysis

“I hate landlords. I hate this landlord family,”, Ji-Li gets frustrated and tired of the way that people treat her, just because of her family status. Which leads to many children separating from their families to support chairman Mao. During the cultural revolution, a lot of family relationships break, like Ji-Li and her family, and Shan-Shan and his mother. One example of a child in the book who left their family to join the cultural revolution is Shan-Shan. In page 142, Shan-Shan’s mother tripped over a broom and fell, and even though his mother was injured, helping her would be opposing Mao, so he walked past like he didn’t see anything. JI-LI was so surprised to see that a son would do something to his mother, that she mentions in the book “I could hardly believe my eyes. Shan-Shan had walked right past his mother! She was lying they're injured, and he had not stopped to help her.” At the beginning of the cultural revolution, people were more protective about their families, but now that the cultural revolution almost reached its peak, more kids joined the cultural revolution and exposed their families for public shaming, and more. This is a perfect example in the book where …show more content…
For example, when Ji-Li got frustrated that she was being mistreated because of her “black” family status, she gets pushed to the limit, she explains “No! I did not want to have this damned name anymore! I had enough. All my bad luck and humiliation came from the name Jiang”. At this point in the story, Ji-Li gets frustrated enough that she goes up to the police station to change her name. Also, at the beginning of the cultural revolution, she had pride in her family name, but now, her class status came down, she suffered from her class status, though at this point of text, she was pushed to the limit where she forced herself to change her name and be free from this bad