Red Scarf Girl

The feeling of presented that crown of hope that represents your dreams; only to have it taken away from you is a horrendous agonizing feeling. Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang, is a gripping tale that paints herself as the girl who’s future is shown brightly only to be abruptly forced away from her. Ji-li, a young girl whose perfect world is being tossed around wildly by the Culture Revolutions. She writes in her memoir the heartbreaks, changes and horrors that she witnessed and the emotional journey she embarked. Towards the end she is faced with a traumatic choice will she change her life and let go what has supported her from birth or cling on to hope and follow her family. Ji-li memoir shows her taking a savage ride on the “feel” train. “Change…

Red Scarf Girl The book Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang is about her early life in communist China. The cultural revolution is underway and Ji-Li’s life is starting to fall apart. Throughout the book, Ji-Li's perspective changes as she takes on more and more responsibilities for her family. Red Scarf Girl is voiced by the main character, Ji-Li Jiang, who is 12 years old and lives in Shanghai, China. She is an outstanding student, as well as her family is wealthy. She has everything students want.…

Many consider America to be a land where people have equal opportunity, regardless of the class status of their ancestors. However, in China, the Cultural Revolution upturns Chinese values and holds Ji-li Jiang back from numerous opportunities. In her memoir, the Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li shows that she is forced to miss being a liberation army dancer. If not for her class status, she would have probably been a Red Successor. In addition, she is replaced as exhibitioner for her group. Ji-li’s father…

Memoir Essay: Red Scarf Girl Out with the old and in the New! Red Scarf Girl is about a girl named Ji-Li Jiang and her experience during the Cultural Revolution. In 1966, she was twelve years old and in the sixth grade. That was the year the Cultural Revolution started. Chairman Mao led the revolution and went with the model of get rid of the “Four Olds”: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. Ji-Li Jiang illustrates how the Cultural Revolution caused wide spread fear leading to…

Story Summary The Red Scarf Girl is an Autobiography written by Ji-li Jiang herself. Throughout the book she displays her life before, during and after China’s cultural revolution. The story begins with Ji-li talking about her family, and her status in school. She’s a motivated, hardworking person who hopes for a bright future. She also mentions the fact that she gets perfect scores on many of her tests, and her dream to go to Shi-Yi, one of the most accredited schools around. Later on in the…

The book, “Red Scarf Girl” takes place in Shanghai, China. The time period in which the story takes place in is the cultural revolution. The book takes place between 1966 and early 1980’s. This book was published in 1997, the year that Hong Kong gains independence. China also resumed the control of Hong Kong. However, the book was most likely written in 1990’s. The time period that the book takes place in was during the cultural revolution. The cultural revolution that took place in China from…

Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang is a memoir about the author when she was in middle school in communist China. The book details her family’s brutal experience during the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Under Chairman Mao Ze-dong’s terrifying rule, the country of China fell into disarray and poverty and many people died. Chairman Mao brought up poor people and punished rich people. He made it so that no one had trust in one another. The following paragraphs will address characters’ desire to belong,…

In the historical memoir, Red Scarf Girl, author Ji-li Jiang illustrates the way in which different social classes are viewed throughout Chinese society during the Cultural Revolution, as well as the struggles many families endured during this socio-political movement. Issues surrounding class status is a prevalent issue throughout the novel as China’s leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, initiated a Cultural Revolution in 1966 in an attempt to rid the country of capitalist ideas and preserve…

Chairman Mao’s Scheme to Success In Ji-Li Jiang’s Red Scarf Girl, Chairman Mao is the egregious dictator responsible for the destruction during the Cultural Revolution, achieved due to his manipulative nature. For example, near Ji-Li’s house stands a propaganda wall filled with quotes and pictures of Mao, one of which Ji-Li describes as, “… a beautiful copy of the popular painting Mao Ze-Dong on His Way to Anyuan… I could not look at the painting without feeling inspired. I was ready to follow…

Negative Capability is a person’s ability to live in a state of ambiguity without attempting to change their situation. The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu, Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang, and Dawn by Elie Wiesel are all examples of novels in which characters are able to exist in states of uncertainty. The Hairdresser of Harare follows Dumisani, a gay man in a country that heavily discriminates against homosexuality. Red Scarf Girl is about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, told through the…