"Son of the Revolution"

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This paper assesses the validity of the author's central thesis (or arguments) in terms of his/her use of evidence, quality of reasoning, and soundness of judgment. It shows how the authors of "Son of the Revolution" tie in personal narrative, history, and social commentary to illustrate how people live in China. They attempt to give outsiders a glimpse inside Communist China, while telling the compelling story of a vibrant and sophisticated young Chinese man.

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""Son of the Revolution" tells the sometimes emotional and always compelling story of Liang Heng, who grew up in China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. It is not only one man's story of survival and gradual control of his life and his difficulties, it is the story of a people, their culture, their values, and their everyday lives.

Heng's story opens with his first memories of his schooling, and the disastrous dissolution of his parent's marriage, due to his mother's false conviction as a Rightist. His mother and father divorce to save the rest of the family from retribution. He remembers "Father often warned us against her, and if we defended her he became furious, calling us ignorant children who understood nothing" (Heng and Shapiro 11). Heng opens the story with this tale to not only illustrate how devastating it was too lose his mother at an early age, but to show how the Communist Party controlled all aspects of life in China. It could and did tear apart families simply on the word of one Party member against another, and the threat of retribution hung over an entire family if one member was accused."

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