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Sang Hong-zhen
Teacher Wei is An Yi’s mother. She was once a capable, loved, and well-respected educator. But after the Cultural Revolution begins with an attack on the education system, she finds herself persecuted and ostracized. She receives further criticism and abuse because her father was a businessman and after her mother, An Yi’s grandmother, dies by suicide. Red Guards force Teacher Wei to attend struggle meetings and publicly humiliate her. But through it all, she maintains her faith in Chairman Mao and the Party.
Teacher Wei Quotes in Red Scarf Girl
The Red Scarf Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Teacher Wei or refer to Teacher Wei . 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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Teacher Wei Quotes in Red Scarf Girl
The Red Scarf Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Teacher Wei or refer to Teacher Wei . 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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