Comparison between pages 39-41 and To Live

 In the movie, the man who the mute girl married in the movie, was true Communist with a limb leg. When he came to the town to fix all the things that needed fixing, he also drew pictures of Mao everywhere. People loved him, and respected him as a family member. They bowed to him before sleeping and prayed to him when the awoke. Also after the  daughter had gotten married, the man who killed the son bought the family a picture of the honorable Chairman as a congratulation present. Mao was seen from the peasants and towns people as a basic god, but not all saw him in such a way. The Red Guards who were an army had now occupied most of the cities and were using violence to get their way; the government offten disarmed them and sent them down South to learn from the poor peasants. Maos main focus was the youth to acclaim his power back, so many of them were in the army before finishing school that it was said in 1981 most of the people under 45 were illiterate. If the boy was still alive in the movie, i think he would have been selected to be in the army as well. Someone else who had lost trust in Mao was Liu, infact he came up with an assassination attempt called Project 571 but was discovered in the last minute and Lui fled the country.