Xiangzi is an ordinary coachman with a distinctive personality, and he has many good qualities of working people. He is kind and simple, loves labor, and has a camel-like positive and tenacious spirit towards life. At ordinary times, he seems to be able to tolerate all grievances, but he also has the need to resist in sex. His angry resignation in Yangzhai and his revenge on Si Liu, the owner of the car factory, can illustrate this point. He has always been strong and struggling, which is also a manifestation of his unease about his humble social status. He doesn't want to listen to Gao Ma's advice to loan sharks, covet 60 cars in Si Liu, and do small business according to Tigress's advice. All these show that he thinks that "owning his own car means everything" and he doesn't want to climb up and buy a car as the owner to exploit others. What he dreams of is to seek an independent life by his own labor. This is the humble but legitimate life wish of individual workers. The work describes that after Cao Zhai knocked away his hard-earned money, the detective was most concerned about Mr. Cao's entrustment, because Mr. Cao was a good man in his view; He also described his concern for the grandparents of the old horse and pony, showing his kindness and integrity. The reason why his tragedy can arouse readers' strong sympathy is that besides his social status and unfair experience, these personality characteristics have also played an indelible role. Hard-working and strong people like this have finally become first-class "thorns" and embarked on the road of depravity, which clearly exposed the sin of unreasonable society corrupting people's hearts. The work writes: "The laziness of the bitter people is the natural result of hard work and failure, and the tricks of the bitter people contain some axioms." He added, "Man has improved himself from wild animals, but so far, he has driven his own kind into wild animals. Xiangzi is still in the city of culture, but he has become an animal. It's not his own fault at all. " It is from this understanding that Lao She wrote this tragedy with deep sympathy for those who were insulted and damaged. This makes this work have the power of angry accusation and strong critical spirit, which is deeply branded in the readers' hearts.
The novel also describes in detail Xiangzi's efforts to realize his life wishes. As an unconscious individual worker, although he has an urgent need to improve his living conditions, he doesn't know what is the right way to liberate himself. He never thought that everyone should unite and struggle, but stubbornly fantasized about achieving this goal with personal strength and efforts. His life ideal is narrow, and his means of struggle is even more wrong. Cause me to stay away from my friends, lonely and helpless, and even more unable to resist repeated blows. Since "buy your own car? This has become the whole motivation of his struggle, so that his only purpose in life is. Then after he gradually realized that he could not meet such requirements, he lost not only an ideal, but the whole meaning of life, which would inevitably lead to mental breakdown. Blind personal struggle doomed his failure from the beginning, just like the metaphor in the works, as if pulling a rickshaw to cut corners, "strayed into luoquan Hutong, went for a spin, and returned to its original place". This aggravated his misfortune and gave people a heavy sense of suffocation. The end of the novel clearly points out that Xiangzi is "the last ghost of individualism"; Deep regret includes criticism. The whole work accuses the old society of cannibalism, and at the same time declares the bankruptcy of trying to liberate one's own road through personal struggle. This has more profound social significance than ordinary works that expose dark reality. Through the mouth of an old coachman who has experienced vicissitudes of life, the work points out meaningfully: "It is more difficult to work hard alone than to ascend to heaven. What can a person jump? Have you ever seen a grasshopper? I jump far by myself, but I can't even fly if I am caught by a child and tied with a thread. Fight into a ball, fight into a formation, hum, and eat up the crops in the whole area in a moment. No one can cure it! "Although this formulation is relatively simple, there is no further positive expression in the works with specific plots, but it can still be seen that this is a brand-new conclusion drawn by Lao She in exploring the road of liberation of working people, which shows the valuable progress that he did not have in his previous works.
Thoughts on Reading How Steel was Tempered
This summer vacation, I once again excitedly read ostrovsky's novel How Steel was Tempered. It is the most brilliant masterpiece in Soviet socialist literature and a classic in the treasure house of world literature.
This book describes the story of the first generation of Soviet youths who, under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party, struggled with domestic and foreign enemies and various difficulties to consolidate political power and restore the national economy after the October Revolution. The hero Paul Kochakin was born in an ordinary worker's family. He has suffered from the hardships of life since he was a child, and has sown the seeds of class hatred in his young mind. After the October Revolution, he took the lead in joining the Red Army, moved to the battlefield, fought bloody battles, and was injured many times. Finally, he had to transfer to a local job. Later, the injury worsened and he became paralyzed and blind. After his disability, he didn't lose heart, but also studied hard and started literary creation. However, he resolutely picked up the pen, groped and insisted on writing.
Every time he writes a word, he has to work extremely hard. After tenacious efforts, he finally succeeded in writing the first chapters of the novel Born in the Storm. After reading it, I can't be calm for a long time.
When I read that Paul was disabled in both feet and blind, he still insisted on writing. I couldn't help but burst into tears when I watched it, and I also benefited a lot. Paul's strong, brave and self-reliant spirit is so precious that it is worth learning. How small I am compared with Paul. Speaking of being strong and brave, I'm really embarrassed to say, who is crying after every fall? It's me; Who will flinch every time he meets difficulties? It's me too. It's a great shame to think of those past events.
After reading the article, I want to be like Paul? Like Kochakin, you should have a strong will. Don't give up even if you stumble on the road of life. You should stand up and move on. The door to success is always open to you. Only with this indomitable spirit can we become the pillars of the motherland.