Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

In “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, the narrator and his best friend Luo, deal with the wrath of Mao’s cultural revolution. Mao’s ideas were very similar to Karl Marx. Karl Marx said, “the theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” (communist manifesto) By this Marx meant that the government would control everything and how communism is all about the even distribution of wealth. Throughout the novel, the narrator and Luo challenged this idea of communism with Mao, the head of government and communist party. The narrator, who happens to be unnamed, comes from from a wealthy middle class family. The narrator and Luo were sent to be re-educated