Wild Ginger-LyndseyC

What I have read so far in Wild Ginger is very interesting. The narrator discusses how she is not a participant in the red guard therefore people like Hot Pepper that are part of the red guard have the right to beat and do terrible things to her. According to Hot Pepper, Chairman Mao teaches them to be ruthless. Its interesting to learn how people in the red guard were treated by people not in the red guard because for their generation they think being a Maoist is something they need to do; like on page 27 it says, "To become a Maoist for our generation was like attaining the state of Nirvana for a Buddhist. We might not yet understand the literature of Maoism, but since kindergarten we were taught the process, the conversion--to enslave our body and soul, to sacrifice what was requested in order to 'get there'--was itself the meaning of our lives". This book so far is really good and im interested in seeing how the relationship between Maple and Wild Ginger will end up.