here are all my chapter summaries
chapter 1 in this chapter ji li is selected for an audition and her parents disscourage her from attending
chapter 2 students start a dai zii bo trend ad a  mean dai zii bo is written about her
chapter 3-17 li ji undergoes strugles such as her ather being detained her house being ransacked and being ostricized by classmates but in the end ji li rises above all the threats of her futre being ruined and helps her family

Now that we've finished the book, what type of project should we do? Write your suggestions here. :)

Post your response to the end of the book (and the book in general) here.

Chapter 17 & Epilogue

I am so glad that Jili got her will to live back. I agree with her, and her mother. If you are gone, it doesn't help anyone that depends on you or cares for you. Jili is worth way more alive than dead. I am sorry for the conditions that they have to live in now, and with her Grandma sweeping, it must be horrible to come back home to an empty, sad place.
Even I, when I read about that time in the park, felt like I was Jili and I was thinking of a happier place. But so much has happened in the book, I had forgotten about it.
As for the epilogue, I am a little mad that not one of the Red Guards got punished. Of course, I know that they were as brainwashed as the rest of them, but did they realize their actions after Mao died? Did they regret them? I am glad that everyone got a happier life, like Chang Hong. I smiled when I read she married "a blck whelp". Ahh, the irony in some things.
I understand how the Chinese people thought Mao was God. Since he made the country pretty much isolated, I see how they looked up at a person with so much power. I just hope that any of this ever happens in China or any country ever again.

Poll

I was looking over the answers for the poll, and I think that we should discuss our answers and why we chose them. If anyone has any thoughts on this, please post them here. : )

Thank you, Elizabeth, for posting proactively, without a prompt. For those of you who are wondering where to post about chapters 15 & 16, you can either write in a comment on Elizabeth's post, or comment here.

Chapter 15 & 16

Harvest time.  some of the most painful, backbreaking work is done in the fields.  I can totally understand why she wouldn't let Bai Shan help her.  She, even though was bloody, broken and beat, she had to show that she was tough enough to become part of the revolution.  And when she leaved, even though working in the rice fields isn't exactly happiness, her small source of distraction from home is whisked away.

I'm glad she didn't tell the people where the letter was.  It would've probably brought on more suffering than relief.  It shows she is strong, even if loved ones have to suffer at her hand.