Summary of the Book the Love of the Hawthorn Tree

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Wendi Jiang Janet McConnell SEGL 101A 17 September, 2012. Summary of the book The love of the Hawthorn tree This is a true story set in the 1970’s, when China struggled the Cultural Revolution. It was a time when people were really poor but still didn’t lose their faith in the future. The book is about a pure love between a beautiful high school girl Jingqiu and a talented young prospector Sun Jianxin (also called Laosan). Because Jingqiu’s father was the descendant of landlords who was identified as “counterrevolutionaries” during that period, her family has been under close scrutiny and her life was quite influenced by this. But since she was well-educated and behaved well in school, she was chosen to help to write a text book about the history of a historical village-Xicunping, and to be "re-educated" through work in the village under the leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong. When she arrived at the village and lived with a family of the village head, she met Lao San and was drawn to his responsible and noble character. Lao San who has a promising future is from a well-to-do family and his father held a high position in the military. Jingqiu and Lao San fell in love but considered of the political persecution of Jingqiu’s father and her dream of becoming a teacher to support her family, their relationship was kinda a secret. But it still was discovered by her mom later. Despite the fact that this could endanger the future of Jingqiu, Lao San promised to wait for her until she grew up and Jingqiu was torn between her feelings for Lao San and her filial duty to her family. But as life would have it, Lao San had leukemia later and forced himself to leave Jingqiu because he didn’t want her to suffer and therefore to ruin her life. Jing, unaware of Lao San's deadly disease, was only reunited with him when he was dying

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