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50. She tells him that she is pregnant. They are not allowed to have a child before they marry, but they are not allowed to marry before they are 25 and they're only 18. The narrator offers to find someone to help her at the hospital.
51. They would immediately throw the narrator out without giving him a chance to explain that he was not the father. This is because even the middle class and upper class are just as morally strict.
52. He would have advice on what they should do since he is a wise man and also because he understands what it is like to be an enemy of the people. He sticks to his beliefs by reciting his last words, which was probably a verse from the Bible, in Latin.
53. He offers to give him a book by Balzac if he agrees to help the Little Seamstress with her abortion.
54. She started wearing clothes that city women would wear, asked for a pair of white tennis shoes, adopted the city accent, and wore her hair in a more modern style. Luo was proud that she had changed into a more sophisticated women and thought that his reading the western novels to her was successful.
55. He is upset because the Little Seamstress did not tell him about her leaving, and possibly because he likes her, but he is treated only as the friend of a friend.
56. Maybe she means that she wants to go see the world and do what she wants to do in her life rather than stay here in the mountains just because Luo loves her for her beauty. This is because Luo educated her so that she would be sophisticated enough for him, but now he has made her curious about the rest of the world and she is leaving, defeating the purpose of educating her so that she could be his girlfriend in the first place.
57. They are doing this as a means of revenging because the books were what had caused the Little Seamstress to want to leave. This might be a purging of the fantastic ideas presented by the books.
58. Yes, they did, in a way, become reeducated, because they had now burned their books and they were part of the working class, working every day in the fields with the rest of the villagers. The goals of the Cultural Revolution did appear to work at the end of the novel.