Impression Blog

Red Scarf Girl, a book made by Ji-li Jiang is very inspiring story. The reason why I say this is that when you are at the lowest and have nothing there is still hope to move forward. This is what the story is all about. Moving Forward. Its amazing really, to have nothing and to have the courage to go ahead into life. I couldn't put the book down when i started to read it. Therefore making this a wonderful true inspiring story to move forward.

Key Event Blog Red Scarf Girl

In the book Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Liang Key Event is when Ji-Li is humiliated buy her classmates when they found out about her family's bad class status. Her Grandfather was a landlord, and many people believed that her father was a rightist. Due to this horrible class status Ji-Li had to suffer from their actions. The helpless girl, the classmates screaming at her and only tears flowing from those young eyes. Learning about this, she returned home with a different point of view. Her life was considered perfect, good grades, politeness, everything. That changed, now she felt angry and failed by her family. She was now considered "Black". This was the turning point of the story. From there on, things started to get worse. Her father was detained her mother and grandmother punished for being related to a "Landlord". Therefore making this a large key event f not, then THE largest event in this story. I rest my case...

character blog

In Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Liang a youth girl named Ji-li is facing discrimination during the culture revolution in Shanghai,China,1966. Her family is accused of exploit and bad class status. She loves the revolution and everything about China, but now she feels uncomfortable with this revolution that attacked her neighborhood. She is determined to follow her faith and fight back by all odds. For an example her parents would not allow her to attend an audition to be part of the liberation army. She had the courage to stand by her family and look strait into the principles eyes and said she couldn't go. This demonstration of her courage to face embarrassment proved her honor. Another example is when her class elected kids to be Red Guards, she was almost picked when kids started to call her a Black whelp. And that her father was a rightist and herd grandfather was a Landlord. These type of people were hated during the revolution. She was so determined and courageous that she yelled back the truth to set her name strait.

(Top Left: Red Guards:Children chose to be part of the Chinese liberation

Setting Blog for novel

The setting of this story is in Shanghai,China in the mid 1960's. This is a very large and dense city that s mostly sunny. There is currently a culture revolution that is changing the city constantly.

Stores are constantly shut down and many banners are posted all over the city. It is like a big heap of red there.