Late revolution, people became too fanatic to truly understand what they are doing and will do. Starting from the principle that eradicate any culture works against chairman Mao, people at early revolution carry this revolution on by burning books, crashing sculptures and criticizing teachers. These activities themselves were sorts of violence, and progressively the mob became blind to why they need to do these activities. In this case, mob started to burn any books they want, destroy any monuments without a reason and put anyone in public to denounce them. Revolution had grown into real violence, and thousands of innocent people were entangled.
As a representative of his family, Yu Qiuyu’s uncle and father were caught by the the Red Guards who was the main force that carry this revolution on. His uncle was just a employee of a common company. His uncle had seen all the violence happened around him and came up with just one comment “What is the meaning of this revolution.” And he was reported to the Red Guards. Then he was captured and put into prison for saying words against the revolution. That was how ridiculous that time was. They mistreated him and put him in front of the public. Nobody really cared about his case anymore and why he was caught; they just found it was interesting to see a man being beat. These poor guys became the toys whose fates were held by the mob and who existed just for entertaining other. His uncle finally ended his own life. No more pain would he feel. However, the missing of a toy made the Red Guards look for another one. They didn’t care who that would be, and they just wanted that man be interesting enough, like Yu Qiuyu’s father. His father was put into prison for one sentence as well. However, the whole family could do nothing but watch him being tortured. Even though his father submitted to them that what he said was wrong he was loyal to the revolution, the Red Guard just wanted this toy.
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