p.3-20

1. The headman assumed the violin was a toy. Luo and the narrator fooled the village about the name of the song which they called “Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao.” If there was something that was talking the good of Chairman Mao then they would think that was true. The re-educated boys showed the village was fool because they were not educated.
2. Towards the end of 1968, the Great Helmsman if China’s Revolution, Chairman Mao, launched a campaign that would leave the country profoundly altered. The universities were closed and all the young intellectuals who had graduated from school were sent to the countryside to be re-educated by the poor peasants.
3. Luo’s father was a dentist. Narrator’s parents were doctors. Luo’s father’s crime was because he dared to mention the names of Mao and his consort in the same breath as that of the worst scum of the earth. The narrator and Luo were sending to the poor village because there was a law saying that the person who was educated from school must go re-educated in the village.
4. Luo punched the narrator because he was sad that his father admitted that he slept with the nurse. He could not believe what he heard because he thought his father didn’t do anything wrong just that other people blame on him.
5. They called the mountain Phoenix of the Sky because it was composed some twenty villages scattered along the single serpentine footpath or hidden in the depths of gloomy villages and they felt the same way as the music.
6. Alarm clock allows Luo and Ma changed time whatever they want so this showed us that technology and education overpower and trick the ignorant peasants.
7. The re-education last for one year. They were despondent that they had to work in this village.
8. Luo’s gift was the clock. He gave it to them and he could change the time easily. But it also made people don’t know what was the real time.