Land Reform v.s. Red Guards

Both the Land Reform in Action and the Red Guards have the same end goal in mind, which is to get rid of "old-school" China. However, with both acts trying to accomplish the same goal, they surprisingly have complete opposite effects on their targeted people. The Land Reform in Action piece is about a revolution in a chinese village by the common working peasants against the village head. In this instance, one man led the fights against another by getting the villagers to expose the crimes of Te-yu. At first, the villagers didn't want to speak, because usually if they spoke out against their "boss", even if it was for justice, they were the ones to be punished. But Tien-ming attempted to get rid of the fear in these people and inspire them to fight their ruling power. This is an instance of the new government forming in China, but just one effect it had on the people. Unlike in Land Reform, the Red Guards went about their end goal by instilling fear in others. The Red Guards went into people's homes, destroying their home and all possessions that were a part of "old China." This caused the people to be fearful of the new government. In any case, the end goal for both was to have the old Chinese government abolished so that a new, Communist government could take it's place. While one attempts to overcome fear and another puts more fear into the villagers, they both want to accomplish the same thing.