How does zhu wenli change over the course of the story? she becomes a strong opponent of mao zedong's teachings. she turns into to a violent, coarse person. she becomes a strong supporter of individual rights. she becomes very sensitive and caring.

She turns into to a violent, coarse person.

In the story "A Decade," we meet a writer who visits the town where he studied during the 1960s. This was the period of the Cultural Revolution in China. The narrator reflects on her teacher, Zhu Wenli, a young woman who got sent to a labor camp because of her. The narrator decides to look for her teacher in order to apologize and show that she has not been forgotten. However, the experiences of the labor camp have changed Zhu Wenli. She is now a hardened, violent woman, very different from the person she was before.

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,