Daniel+Kim+Analysis

The article I'm referring to in the analysis is from the Morning Sun site: http://www.morningsun.org/living/medicine/cp_removedtumor.html

The article “Chairman Mao Gave Her A New Life” portrays how superior and powerful Mao is. A woman named Chang Chiu-chu was diagnosed of a 90jin malignant tumor, which was accepted by everyone that it was impossible to remove it. Although the tumor could have been removed in its beginning stages, because the hospital refused to cure her, she came to that final, fatal stage. The article praises and promotes the Communist Party, but also criticizes the counterrevolutionaries, like China’s Khrushchov. The Communist Party is promoted in various ways in the article. One way is teamwork. The majority of the contents of the article is taken up by how every doctors, men and women gathered to research about how to cure Chang Chiu chu. These people went about troubles for days, night and day, experimenting and reading various information to cure the woman. This level of effort, enthusiasm and teamwork shows how the Communist Party cares for its comrades, thus convincing the readers to glorify Communism. Another way that the article expresses the ideologies of the Cultural Revolution is constant usage of Mao’s doctrines. Everything the people do to cure the woman is related Mao’s teachings. Quotes like "Our duty is to hold ourselves responsible to the people." let people think Mao is a kind, caring person, and also makes them attract to Communism. This article compares to our article in a way that it relates to a specific individual. The article that Jason and I wrote refers to a countryside worker, a farmer, whose life transformed because of Mao’s ideologies. Both do the job in persuading its readers to follow Communism. Also, both articles attack counterrevolutionaries in a way. Our article criticizes the greedy landlord, who takes advantage of the labors of his workers. The Morning Sun article compares the health benefits they could give, and the one the counterrevolutionary could give. In conclusion, both newspaper articles praise Mao, Communist doctrines, criticizes counterrevolutionaries, and portrays a specific scenario to its readers, where the articles tells them that Communism focuses on the well being of everyone, not just the bourgeoisie.