How the Cultural Revolution Reading Cleared up "To Live"

The reading on the Cultural Revolution cleared up a lot of what we saw in “To Live” this time. As we saw people who had been loyal to the communist party suddenly be persecuted as “capitalists”, we understood that this was the effect of Chairman Mao turning against the communist party in order to promote “true” communism. Also, because we read about the “Four Olds”, we could understand why in the hospital, there were no doctors to be found: only young women who clearly had no idea of how to handle Fungxia’s condition.