"Red Azalea"

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This paper summarizes Anchee Min's autobiographical book, "Red Azalea" about her personal experiences growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. The paper describes the main characters in the book, the relationship between these characters and Min's effective use of irony, metaphors and similes.

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"Min's work as a narrator in this book is exceptional, and full of ironies that are surprising, even shocking, and yet revealing of what it was like to live in a totalitarian regime. On page 3 Min writes, "I was an adult since the age of five." That is both ironic and sad, since a child of five should be able to enjoy life as a child, and should be engaged in activities befitting a child; but in the Cultural Revolution (CR), there was nothing to do but obey, fight, survive, and try to stay one step ahead of a big social misstep or verbal mistake which could cause severe pain and anguish. "It was like a regular meal that I got a purple cheek or a bloody nose," she wrote on page 5."

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