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Beginning of the re-education process
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The boys' parents are now considered enemies of Mao and are shamed.
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The Narrator and Luo are sent to the mountain village to be re-educated.
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Maos successor, Lin, dies in a plane crash.
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The narrator and Luo meet the Little Seamstress for the first time and tell her stories.
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Luo and the narrator discover the banned books in Four-Eye's hidden suitcase. "The Romance of the Three Kingsdoms", "The Dream of Red Chamber", "Jin Ping Mei", the Bible, poetry, "The Words of the Five Ancients" and "Ursule Mirouët".
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The Little Seamstress writes a letter to Luo and the narrator.
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The made love under the Ginko tree.
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The boys dressed as officals, with complete uniforms, the collect the folk songs of the miller for Four-Eyes so that they can have more books by Balzac.
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Four-Eyes's village pushed a buffalo down the mountain so it would die and then have a massive feast.
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Luo and the Little Seamstress go to the mountain pool to swim, read, and probably have sex. Little Seamstress is bitten by a snake
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Luo leaves the village for a month to be at his sick mother's side.
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The Little Seamstress finds out she's pregnant, after having period problems, with Luo's baby while he is away. Narrator helps her get an abortion.
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The old preacher is dying and Luo finds a doctor that would help him get the abortion for the Little Seamstress by offering his Balzac.
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Little Seamstress anf narrator visit the preacher's grave and vow to have a statue built of him in the future.
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She sets off to live in the city as a commune leader in the city.
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Chairman Mao Zedong was very ill in the remaining years of his life, and after he died it was the end of the revolution.
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Hu Yaobang lets the youth go back to their familes and ends the re-educating system
