Post # 8 Form B

I have to wonder what Jung’s mother was thinking about the Communist Party as it changed over the time she was serving in it. At first it seemed so much more liberating than anything Manchuria had experienced thus far, but throughout this portion of the book it becomes clear that the Communist Party isn’t what the people had dreamed. There were people who were devout to the system, like Jung’s father, but there were also people who found it restrictive. On page 171 Jung’s mother is glared at by her peers and comrades just because she wears some color under her work clothes. The conformity of the Communist society was really quite suffocating to some people and one must wonder just how much more ‘liberating’ this new government was. Jung’s mother is constantly feeling slighted by the always increasing rules instated by the Communist Party. She nearly dies multiple times and if she had even tried to do better for herself the society would have ridiculed her and called on her for such violations of the rules. Even after she has a miscarriage people around her still blame her for being weak and bourgeois. To her it always seems as though people are out to prove her disloyal and unfit to be a member of the party. She constantly refers to her doubts about the Party and always seems torn between her own beliefs of what the Party was supposed to be and what it has become.