Character: Ji-li's Mother
Student Name: Siddhant Talwar

1. Question: Why did the police lock your husband up?

Answer:
They locked him up because he wasn't ready to confess that he listened to foreign radio although he didn't do anything. And they also accused of him being a counterrevolutionary and also for creating revolutionary ties. This was stated on pg # 181-183 in the Red Scarf Girl. 

2. Question: What did you want to know about your husband when he never came back (Ji-li's father)?

Answer: I wanted to know about what happened to my husband and I also wanted to know why was Ji-li's dad in prison. I wasn’t having a good feeling. I thought he was living in bad conditions, not eating well, is he troubled from the struggle meetings he had to face and I was wondering why his salary got cut to the half he had before? Or did he become prisoner because he was the son of a landlord. Talking about landlord’s my daughter hasn’t looked her grandfather’s face and nor have I, so why is her class status still thought of being a black. If you check my husbands work unit you can check that we are not blacks.This was stated on Page #182 in the Red scarf girl. 




3. Question: Under communism everyone should be treated equally. Does Mao treat everyone equally, in your experience?

Answer: No, this can't be true. A person who actually sends his loyal people (communism says every body is equal) to throughout China for finding people who aren’t following communism rules, while he is breaking them. This was stated on pg.134 I the Red Scrf Girl .My husband wasn’t listening to foreign radio, and if he was what is the big deal I mean wouldn’t you get communication with other countries in the world instead of the closest on The Soviet Union. 

4. How did you feel when your husband was free of the accuse of listening to foreign radio?

Answer: I was really nervous so I got sick but after hearing that my husband has been freed from the accuse I felt a lot better. Well I got confused when they took my husband to the jail because he was listening to the radio but in real he wasn’t. I was really scared what will they do with him and even my children and my mother in law got scared. My daughter Ji Li had to face many problems to go and meet her dad like people wouldn’t let her go in only rarely they would let her go in and meet her dad and give her dad what I gave him like clothes and food. This was stated on pg.187 in the Red Scarf Girl. This is what I say my honor.

The Red Scarf Girl

1. Who are the members of Ji-Li’s family? Describe her family home. What class status does her family belong to? What is the occupation of her father? Mother?

Answer:
Ji-Li's family members: Ji-Li's father, Song-Po-Po(nanny/housekeeper:P.14), Ji-Li's mother, Ji-Yong(younger brother), Ji-yun (younger sister), Ji-Li's grandmother (went to modern university, teacher, help found Ji-Li's primary school:P.14), Little white(cat)
Ji-Li's home: bright and warm and welcoming, appartement in Shanghai, had a french window, mahogany table, high ceilings, burgandy curtains, pots on steps.(P.7) 10 times bigger room than classmates, 100 times brighter, full-sized bathroom.(P.15~16)
Family status/class: Middle class who are doing well. Not super-rich, but well-off.
Family occupation: Both parents are an actor/actress. But the now the mother retired and works in a sports equipment store.(P.13)

2. What is Ji-Li’s life at school like? What special honor is Ji-Li picked for at school? Describe Ji-Li’s parents’ reaction. What does Ji-Li do instead of entering the audition?

Answer:
Ji-Li's school life: She's the student chairman of the whole school and also was an outstanding student (P. 9). She was happy and was always respected, loved, able to excel and expected to succeed (P.1). Ji-Li math test was display as exemplary work (P.3). She was known for being good at martial arts since 2nd grade (P.5). She had a da-dui-zhang badge for student chairman of the whole school (P.9). She was correcting her little sister about her piano practice (P.29).
Special honor: She was picked to do an audition for the Central Liberation Army Arts Academy (P.6)
Parents' reaction: Her dad told her not to do the audition and he was serious about it(P.8). She also saw a pain in her dad's eyes that she had never seen before (P.9). Her dad was worried about the political background investigation (P.9). They send a note principal Long (P.10)
Instead of entering the audition: Ji-Li tried hard not to cry about not going to the audition after talking to teacher Gu and An Yi, she dogged behind a tree so Principal Long and the 2 boys wouldn't see her because she didn't want to talk to anyone right then (P.12)

3. What are the "Four Olds"? Provide some examples of each and why they need to be destroyed. What does "prosperity" mean? Why is this considered a thought?

The Four Olds are- Old culture, Old ideas, Old habits, Old customs. (P.21)

Examples:
Old habits- being named after something(p.1).
Old ideas- that umbrella is Yang-san(p.3237).
Old culture- destroying old signs because they are old(p.20-27).
Old customs- wearing pants with a narrow bottom(p.32-33).

Four Olds need to be destroyed because: China would become a strong socialist country if the four olds are destroyed. (Glossary and pg 21)

Prosperity: Prosperity means to be successful, dominating in the world and wealthy. In this book (page 21) there is a market called The Great Prosperity Market and the sign had to be destroyed because the word prosperity was in it. Mao says “that if you are prosperous, than you are bourgeois”.

4. What is an xenophile? Why was it bad to be a xenophile in the Revolutionary China?

Answer-

Xenophile-An xenophile is a person who loves anything foreign(p.285 Glossary)

The xenophile was considered bad because of the four olds to have foreign influence. He wanted everything to be Chinese ,but nothing foreign.

5. What are da-zi-bao? What are being done with them? Who is Jiang Xi-wen? Why does Ji-Li hang a da-zi-bao on her house?

Answer
THE meaning of Da-zi-bao is-a form of propaganda in the shape of a large handwritten poster presenting an important issue. During the cultural revolution, da zi bao were used to attack and humilate people.

People are using the Da-zi-bao to actually humiliate people throught handwritten posters.

Jiang-Xi-Wen is a very close aunt of Ji- Li.

JI-LI hangs a da-zi-bao on her house because she is accused to be a rightist and They have a da-zi-bao because Yin-Lan-Lan and Du Hai wrote that teacher Ke and Jiang Ji-Li have a realationship going on.(pg.49)

6. Why does Ji-Li stop going to school for a while?

Answer
There is a person who writes a letter to Da-zi-bao about her and Ji-Li getting a very high fever. (pages 45 - 56)

7.What is a rightist? Use your own words to briefly explain the process of remolding one's ideology.

A rightist is a memeber of a conservative party who disagreed with or opposed the Communist Party.

Ideology is when you forget what happened in the past, and think about the future and present.

8.What did Ji-Li's grandfather do for living? How does this affect Ji-Li's life?

Answer:
Ji-Li's grandfather was a landlord. (pg.60-67)
This effected Ji-li's life by being accused by her classmates because she was the granddaughter of a landlord ( which in that time was a big thing or job). She couldn't be a Red guard because of her family and their beliefs about Red Guards.(pg.59- 67)

THE FLEX DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. What do you think the level of safety is here? What makes you think this?


I think The Garment Factory has a very safe area because they are in a place were there are people don't often go plus they had very strong and very intelligent gate keepers. I got to know this when we came the gate keeper asked me which school I was from and when I said "American International School of Dhaka" then they understood I was from the school. Though I was feeling a little unsafe because they always took me to a place where nobody was their but I refused to go with them because I felt a little uncomfortable. I think there was a lot of space in the room where the clothes are made in and where machines are kept and, there is a lot of space for people to walk around without touching their equipment(s). In the Up2Date Apparels had a little less space than the factory, but it was more organized than the factory because their thinking was higher than the factory people. This doesn’t mean that they weren’t that smart. It means that they were experts at their jobs but they weren’t educated for that work. Though let me come back to the topic about safety. The Up2Date Apparels weren’t that safe because there weren’t many people for gate keeping. The place was very small, but they did not have machines because they are not applicable in an Import-Export job. Thus, they do have some people who make some samples for their customers. Well, this is what I think that half of our trip was safe and half was unsafe.

2 observations I made are I noticed people wearing masks and wearing caps for their safety from dust and germs floating in the air.
Another observation I made was that they used very complicated machines, so that would be a little unsafe.

2 question I had was:
How much money do these people get in 1 month?
&
How far are their houses from the factory or the Up2date Apparels.

Elliots Expose!!!!!!!

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When Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots and sends it out over the Kid Net, he includes the following quote in his letter.

"I think people ought to realize that stuff like this goes on every day…The rest of you are all part of it-because you let it go on and maybe you think it's funny, or you think it only happens to geeky outsiders and kids who are smaller or fatter or skinnier or don't have so many friends or so much money as you. So tell me-what happens when you don't have so many friends one day, or you don't have so much money, or something bad happens to you?" (91-92)


Blog Question:
What is the message is he trying to get across to his classmates? (6pts)

Elliot is trying to say that even if you aren’t the one bullying someone you still are doing a sin. That is by letting the bullying carry on and not stopping it yourself or getting someone else to stop it (Bystander). He also tries to convey the message that you should not do bully because it does not feel nice to the victim. No matter how funny it is to you it hurts others from the inside. You should think about that what if one day you are in that position where you are being bullied and how that would then feel to you. Another expression Eliot tried sending through is that being a bystander who does nothing to put an end to the bullying is also known as a bully in other words. He even tried to say that from the inside we are all humans no matter how small or tall you are. If you are fat or friendless we are all the same. In other words we should now judge others by the amount of money they have or the size they are, we should judge them by their personality and acts. Like on page 91-92 Elliot sends the message to everyone after the bullying incident with the Jock Rots in The Revealers and it says you shouldn't let the bullying incidents happen. You should do something to stop people from bullying people and I think that he wants to do something that can change the victims life in Darkland Middle School. THIS IS THE MESSAGE HE WANTS TO TELL EVERYONE. STOP BULLYING!!!!!!!!!

Blog Role Reversal

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Blog Question: After the Bully Lab was renamed, The Revealers, and the stories of the three Dark land students were released and well received by the student body, Elliot wanted to publish Russell’s narrative about Richie punching Russell in the face.


1) Why was Russell so opposed to the idea (pg. 110)? Explain. (4 pts)

Ans 1) Russel was so opposed to the big idea because Russel did not want him to get beaten up again like he did on pg.44 and the part when he poured root bear on him. When Burke and Blachette where putting things in Elliot's bag and when they threw him over the bridge those incidents which happened with Elliot affected his response to Richie to but even though Richie was acting like a bully he also helped Russel and he was not like Blachette or Burke.

2) What is happening to the relationship between Russell and Richie. (3 pts)
Ans 2) The relationship between Russel and Richie was getting bad but interesting because as we go on with the story we got to know why he was angry at Russel. On pg. 15 he was starting to show him that he is targeting him for this year after-school and this went on up till the punch on pg. 44. After some time in the book the relationship got better. The relationship turned into some kind of helping but Richie still did not stop bullying Russel. I think sooner or later in the book Richie and Russel will be friends because there relationship is getting better.

3) Two Peer Comments (4 pts each)

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