Have you ever experienced something that changed your life forever? In the memoir, Red Scarf Girl, A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, by Ji-li Jiang, she tells us about her experiences as a young girl during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She had a black background, which means that she did not have a good background. That means that she and her family were the target of the government and the red guards. Ji-li has changed over the course of her story because she is in the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the red successors raided her house. Before the Chinese Cultural Revolution, she was lucky, respected, and loved. A quote in the text that shows this is “this is why I was happy because I was always loved and respected” (prologue,4). …show more content…
They hoped that I would be the happiest girl in the world. “And I was” (prologue, 2-3). This quote shows that her name means lucky and beautiful. Both of these quotes prove my claim that Ji-li is happy. During the Cultural Revolution, Ji-li experienced the red guards search their house not one but two times. In the text it says,”At the wave of her arm the Red Guards behind her stormed in. Without speaking to each other, they split into three groups and charged toward our drawers, cabinets, and chests. The floor was instantly strewn with her contents.” This changes Ji-li because they charged in searching everything, looking in trunks pushing everything away from the wall they even searched their private positions. When they find what they are looking for, they don't clean up, they just walk out the door leaving everything in the house a mess. Another thing that happened in the revolution is in the text it said, “I could not believe it”. Is “My Name” a slang word? Why do you need to be a member? I’m not a teacher. Why would they write a da-zi-bao about me”? A da-zi-bao is a poster that takes unfair and mean things about someone and a couple people wrote one about