Wild Ginger - Valerie

I have read to the point in the book where Wild Ginger and Maple become really good friends, and get beat up on a daily basis by Hot Pepper, Titi and Yaya together. I think Wild Ginger is a strong character, she stands for what she believes and she doesn't let people push her around. What surprised me about wild ginger is that she wants to show that she is a maoist, that she is not a revolutionary. Based on her dad being a foreigner people treat Wild Ginger as if she were a revolutionary whether it seemed like she was or not. Maple goes to tell Wild Ginger that her mothers name is on a suspicion list of spies. We then see the personal relationship between Wild Ginger and her mom, and it is a hard one. Wild Ginger lights a picture of her father and mother on fire in front of Maple showing the hatred she has towards her dad, and that he is the reason she is constantly getting beat up at every school she moves to. After we see the fight between Ginger and her mother about her dad Ginger and Maple go to see a boy named Evergreen who is the Red Guard leader in another school to seek for protection, and Evergreen tells Wild Ginger about the Maos Quotations competetion, and she decides she want to participate in it, I think this will be a large turning point, showing that she is not a revolutionary might win over the approval of hot pepper. I am looking forward to reading more, and finding out if Wild Ginger participates in the Mao quotation contest, and to see how many people she shocks.