How Does Ji-Li Change Your Life Forever?

Have you ever been in a difficult position that changes your life forever? in Ji-Li Jiang's book, Red Scarf Girl Ji-Li had to make many decisions that change her future. She has been in many difficult positions like when her father got detained or locked up in jail, When she had to do summer labor in the countryside, when she has to cook and take care of her family and when she could not go to a dance academy because of her political background she has faced many challenges that transformed who she is today.
One of the most important changes that Ji-Li has overcome is her father being locked up, or taken away because he was accused of listening to a foreign radio which was considered treason in Communist China during the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was an act proposed by china’s leader at the time Chairman Mao. He …show more content…
One example is when Ji-Li could not be in the academy because of her political situation. Ji-Li’s father said, “If she does not get in everybody will know that she has a political problem”. Ji-Li and Sandy, from Lob's Girl, are very alike because they both lose something very close to them. Ji- Li’s stamp collection was given to her by her grandmother and she had been collecting them from kindergarten. The red guards came to search the house for things in the old China and they took her stamp collection with many other things. Sandy in Lob's Girl by Joan Aiken lost her dog in a car accident Sandy’s dog Lob died but Sandy survived in the same accident. Trials and difficulties define a character by letting the characters decide how to react to the situation and compare it to other times when they were younger and less mature. This will be able to measure how much they have grown and decided if it is an immature to mature response or from idealism to realism. Ji-Li has come of age in many ways from the beginning of Red Scarf Girl to the