Revolution is Not a Dinner Party

I do think this book was a lot more appropriate for younger children, aside from the writer trying to kill himself. I do think it did represent what was going on at the time well. How everyone was giving her family a hard time for being bourgeoise. When she faces off with her teacher I was shocked she got away. It just shows how when things are in turmoil in a country people look for scapegoats to blame when they are suffering just like the Germans with the Jews. Even when her father is helping people no matter who they are as a doctor and they demote him anyway and eventually send him to a work camp. Of course he was going to save that writer, it is in his nature. I was glad he was ok and made it back to the girls. You can only think of how bad things must have really been for some of these families. It is really sad what people will do all because of misguided hatred. I know that we are suppose to look at how this is reflected in our own society. I can only see extremist hating people without even knowing them. Aside from maybe Westboro Baptist Church, but I hate them for what they do, not who they are in general. I don't hate them for being baptist or anything. I still wouldn't mistreat their children. I would try to educate their children, but not by being mean to them and threatening to cut their hair. We are not a nation in turmoil though, so there lays the key difference. You have to wonder who we would blame if things went south here. It isn't like we are immune or above it. We blamed all Asia Americans for being spies in WWII. During the Great Depression we blamed the president and the rich blamed the poor and the poor blamed the rich. Where there is turmoil there is blind hatred. I have to wonder if our economic market crashed again if we would blame ourselves or would we blame the Chinese for stealing our jobs or whatever. In 2008 when the market tanked we blamed the housing market and contractors, but financial analyst facts kind of back that one. It just makes you wonder if we have learned enough to stop blaming people for our problems. I would hope that we have learned that it only leads to more problems.