Answer at least two of the questions below and respond substantively to at least one classmate’s discussion post. (Use examples from the text to support interpretation.)
1. What are some moments in which Ji-Li feels the impact of the Cultural Revolution?
a. How do they change her view of Chairman Mao?
b. How do they change her view of her family?
2. What are the pivotal events in the memoir? And in what ways do they change Ji-Lis life?
3. Compare Ji-Lis questioning of her identity to other texts we have read?
4. What are some of the key questions this memoir poses?
AND
Draw a parallel between an event in JiLi’s life and in Fugui’s life from the film To Live.
