![]() The narrative gives us an impression that Ye Wenjie will be important through its treatment of Bai Mulin. Some discussion questions to kick us off - remember, post whatever you would like to discuss, this is just to help kickstart the conversation. ![]() What would you add if you had to summarize the reading? Ye accepts an offer to stay forever and we are given a preview of whatever it is Red Coast is doing. Despite the Cultural Revolution, China needs scientists with her skillset it seems. Left to die in the cold, Ye finds herself on a helicopter headed to Red Coast. Alone in a cell, Ye is offered a chance for leniency in exchange for speaking against her father. ![]() Bai Mulin gives her a copy of Silent Spring, but betrays her and uses her passion to send an incriminating letter to the government to stop the environmental nightmare they're creating. Her father dead, her mother broken, we catch back up with Ye in the lumber camp where she's been given a second chance. Quick Summary: Ye Wenjie witnesses her mother and father's struggle session - admittedly it's her father on stage, but her mother has to make a terrible choice and finds herself one of his accusers. ![]()
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