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Cultural Experience in LiteraturePassage 1 Understanding My Father by A. Gautam My father was not an emotional person. He didn't talk much either. On those rare occasions when he did, he never used more words than what was needed. As a result, I did not benefit from a first-hand account of the Cultural Revolution. Instead, I was forced to gather information from other sources. But that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted to hear it from him. We left our country for America when I was just a child. Now I was learning about the history of the Native Americans. I never knew if my father had worked in the revolution as a peasant, solider, or a revolutionary intellectual. I tried to picture him writing big-character posters and holding great debates with his fellow revolutionaries. Did he use big words? Did he sometimes skip classes to meet with the comrades across China? I often thought to myself. I wanted to ask him if he believed that the right to air one's views fully really existed in his youth. As an only child, who was brought up to think that education was my only key to prosperity, I didn't know why my father did not finish his degree. My father's friends behaved just like him—quiet, laborious, and mysterious. They all looked at me with eyes full of love and hope. Only once, did I hear one of them speak about the past. Uncle Chen recounted something about "not being a Communist," "arrest," and "freedom." It was then that I realized my parents and their friends had always talked to each other about their lives back home in Mandarin, the language I could no longer grasp. At that moment, I regretted my dwindling Chinese vocabulary and the opportunities I had already missed. Passage 2 The Cultural Revolution in China was most importantly a class struggle. Student activists such as the Red Guard played an important role in taking the revolution to the homes of the ordinary citizens. Soon, their careers revolved around the act of changing the face of their nation. They began by publishing their ideas in leaflets which were widely handed out to the citizens. Soon, the visual aids were used to post the names of suspected "counter-revolutionaries" as well as to portray the image of a very influential Mao Zedong. The written and the spoken word influenced and moved the revolution forward. Many student activists held "great debates" and wrote educational plays to inform and inspire the general population. Under the inspiration and supervision of Mao Zedong, the new People's Republic of China focused on abolishing the past. Public meetings, giant posters, and bulletin boards reflecting Mao's ideas of a new China began to appear everywhere. There were four major unwanted old ideas that Mao wanted to replace: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. 71. Based on A New China which of these is most likely true about the father's life in China?
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