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
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