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Summary: A courage hard to keep
Review: During the Cultural Revolution people in China went from day to following the order of Mao Ze-dong, and in the mist of this they still thought they were living a normal day to day life. Ji-li is a perfect example of this. Although she does not become a Red Guard for her family's sake, she does wish she were. Throughout humiliation and hatred towards her family, she keeps her courage and strives to keep her honor. Ji-li Jiang's world is a cold, curl place. I feel pity, hate, and overwhelming sadness in her world. I fear a world that might come down to that point when you just follow the orders of tyrants. In some parts of the world that happens here, today. We should learn and understand what is happening outside our world we live in. I find this book a good example.
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Summary: A Really Good Book
Review: Red scarf girl is a really good book. It has funny parts, sad parts and happy parts, all mixed together.It also explains a large part of a foreign country's history, which you might not know about. That's why I think it deserves 5 stars. (Also,my uncle helped translate it, but I still feel the same way about it.)
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Summary: Ji-Li Jiang, a very brave and talented writer
Review: I have never read a book quite like this one. Ji-li Jiang, the author and main character brings you into this story with background information about Ji-li's lifestyle, and what is taking place in China at the time. Ji-li and her family are told to have a bad class status and is criticized by her friends and neighbors. Ji-li is stuck in a very hard position of whether to stay loyal to her embarrasing family, or to become part of the communist China, led by their leader Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao believes in the Fourolds, old culture, customs, ideas, and old habits. It is extremely hard for Ji-li and her friends and family to survive. Poor Ji-li tries making new friends, but has to hope that her peers don't know about her and her family. This is an excellent book and very inspiring. I would recommend it to anyone between the ages of 11 and 16. While it is based on history, and I for one am not a fan of historical books, I could not put this book down once I reached a certain part of the novel. The author takes you into her story and lets you practically see and experience what is happening right by Ji-li's side. Not only does she detail these experiences, but she backs up her details with wonderful sentences.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This book was great. I'm going to teach it to my 9th graders next year.
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Summary: A must read
Review: Red Scarf Girl was sensational. The story was woven with a true story tellers voice. It was an engaging read that helped one understand life during the Cultural Revolution.
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Summary: Hit to the Heart
Review: As a Chinese teen, both my parents went through the Cultural Revolution in China. I was always aware of this fact for the mentioned the hardships they had to go through constantly to me. I realized they were trying to tell me how good I have it here in America but I never really paid attention - until I read this book. I could not put it down because if I did, I felt like I was turning my back on my mom and dad. This is what they went through and I could not comprehend until I read this compelling book. To devote your life to a man who ends up destroying is the story of many people's lives in China. Ji-Li is sent away to the countryside to work for the country and cannot see her family. Her precious memories of her family (the pictures) are destroyed and her family is torn. This was such the life of many. For some histories such as my family's, it may be hard to read. However for EVERYONE, it is necessary. We need to learn about what has happened.
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Summary: A Sad But GREAT book
Review: red scarf girl is keeping me busy all the time.It is very well written and makes me feel like I'm in the book.I recommend it for eight to nine year olds (who read challenging books) and up.
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Summary: RED HOT
Review: The best book I have ever read is The Red Scarf Girl by Jilil Jang. It is a historical fiction about the Cultural Revloution in China and how Jlili was physicaly and mentaly scared by the violence and had been searched and betan, as well has been worked to the bone in the rice feilds. Jlili's family was always in hiding. Her family was also forced to distroy old family photos and antiques. Chairman Meo was the leader at the time, and it was he who started th revolution. He believed that China should start over, get rid of all the "Four Olds" that he said were distroying China. I LOVE this book and I recomend it to anyone over the age of 12.
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Summary: Red Scarf Girl: A memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Review: This is the biography of a 12-14 year old girl living through the Cultural Revolution in China. Through a series of small, personal incidents, Jiang Ji-Li details the horrors and the emotional conflicts of a girl trying to love her family and still be a good Mao-ist (impossible). Well written. A real "page turner." Recommended for teachers, parents, and students from the 7th grade up. Excellent historical family book.
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Summary: I LOVED THIS BOOK
Review: I read this book in one day. I couldn't put it down! I absolutely loved this book. It was full of suspense. I knew that China became Communist, but I never knew the suffering that some people had to go through.
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