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Jia Hong-yu
An Yi’s grandmother lives with her daughter, Teacher Wei, her granddaughter, An Yi, and their family. Ji-li considers her a second grandmother. An Yi’s grandmother grew up before the Chinese Communist Party gained power, and because she belonged to a well-off family, she has bound feet. Her husband was a businessman, and this makes her a target for persecution, especially when the Cultural Revolution begins. After she witnesses the way Red Guard members torture Old Qian, she dies by suicide, afraid of facing similar public humiliation.
An Yi’s Grandmother Quotes in Red Scarf Girl
The Red Scarf Girl quotes below are all either spoken by An Yi’s Grandmother or refer to An Yi’s Grandmother . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7: The Propaganda Wall
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An Yi’s grandmother was short and skinny and she tottered on her bound feet. Her husband had been a wealthy man, a capitalist. He had owned a dye factory, but he had died a long time ago. For as long as I could remember, An Yi’s grandmother had lived with her only child—An Yi’s mother, Teacher Wei, An Yi’s father, and her elder sister, who was blind. An Yi’s grandmother took care of them all. I had known her so long that I called her Grandma too.
Grandma and her sister always dressed in black. Sometimes I saw them up on the roof of their apartment, smoking a water pipe and talking together in their funny Ningbo accent. Grandma loved to give us treats.
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An Yi’s Grandmother Quotes in Red Scarf Girl
The Red Scarf Girl quotes below are all either spoken by An Yi’s Grandmother or refer to An Yi’s Grandmother . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7: The Propaganda Wall
Quotes
An Yi’s grandmother was short and skinny and she tottered on her bound feet. Her husband had been a wealthy man, a capitalist. He had owned a dye factory, but he had died a long time ago. For as long as I could remember, An Yi’s grandmother had lived with her only child—An Yi’s mother, Teacher Wei, An Yi’s father, and her elder sister, who was blind. An Yi’s grandmother took care of them all. I had known her so long that I called her Grandma too.
Grandma and her sister always dressed in black. Sometimes I saw them up on the roof of their apartment, smoking a water pipe and talking together in their funny Ningbo accent. Grandma loved to give us treats.
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