Wild Ginger: Yet another unmerited book

It is obvious to see that Wild Ginger is another cliche plotted, charactered, and put together book, similar to many other books we've read in whisl. With obvious plot lines like a classic Sherlock Holmes Mystery, a puppy love story, and anti-communist characters like Evergreen and Maple, this book has accomplished nothing specatularly new. While it tells a story of true effects of communism and Marxist ideals, its lack in literary merit, and originality do writing no justice. It is obvious to see the McCarthyesque style of anti-communist this and that. It is obvious to see that Communism ruins the rights and accomplishments of the individual, and the other unnecessary additions of love, mystery, and perversion all prove this point as well, but why need we point out whats sitting on your nose? When an economic system pools all possessions and materials, the motivation of the individual drops to a complete 0. When all one is working for is the better of one's country, and his only pay is a bunk in a dorm, and a plate of food it is clearly seen why Mao's ideas failed. Min uses Wild Ginger as a character to show the blatent failures of Maoist ideals. While she persists in the ways of the Red Guard, it is clear to the reader that she should chose another path. Then Evergreen and Maple are shown to the reader as the reason that Capitalism is fair to the individual, while Communism ruins originality and creativity. Perhaps Min should have read and studied Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Both extreme societies warrant different kinds of suffering. Its more of a pick your poison situation. Hopefully next year's WHISL class will atleast get to read books that have enough merit to make it on sparknotes, let alone the AP exam.