FREE ESSAY ON FORBIDDEN CITY

FORBIDDEN CITY

Ted and Alex Jackson had to go to Beijing to report a story. When Alex and Ted arrived at
the capital city they met a guide named Lao-Xu, who directed them to the Beijing Hotel.
At the hotel, Ted and Alex met Eddie Nowlan. Eddie was the reporter that Ted would be
working with. 
After settling into the routine of the hotel, Alex began observing Tian at Men square,
and interviewed some students who were protesting. One night Ted and Eddie left to
observe the square, Alex wanted to come, but Ted and Eddie wouldn't let him. So Alex and
Lao-Xu went out to see what all the machine gun fire was about. When they got to the
square they saw PLA soldiers shooting students, and crushing them with armored personnel
carriers. This was the People's Liberation Army. As Lao-Xu and Alex stood on the curb,
they watched students getting shot, Lao-Xu became enraged and ran out into the middle of
the street and started shouting at the PLA soldiers. Suddenly one of the soldiers raised
his gun and shot Lao-Xu several times. He fell to the ground as Alex took confidential
pictures of the soldiers killing Lao-Xu and other students, he turned and ran, for his
life. 
As Alex ran, he felt a sharp pain going up his leg, he had been shot, he started to feel
dizzy and he wearily stumbled to the ground. As Alex lay on the ground some Chinese
students took Alex to a house. In the house he met a woman named Nai Nai. Soon after he
met a girl named Xin-Hua, the granddaughter of Nai Nai. Xin-Hua and Alex became friends.
Later, Alex meets Xin-Hua's friends. With the help of Xin-Hua and her friends, Alex
devises a plan to get to the Canadian Embassy. 
One of Xin-Hua's friends gives her a ping ban che to get across the city. Once on the
road they made good time, on the way the two friends encountered some PLA soldiers, but
they didn't have any problems. 
Once they arrived at the Canadian embassy gates , they could not get in, so they headed
for the airport. On the way to the airport they were stopped at a roadblock where Xin-Hua
was taken into a nearby stand of trees and was shot. A PLA soldier forced him into a car,
which took him to the airport where he was united with his father. They went back to
Canada where they discovered that Alex was carrying videos of the things that happened
while Alex, Ted, and Eddie were in Beijing.