The treatment of the theme in the novel reflects the rebellion against the traditional narrative, and it is a story told with a nostalgic mentality. Mo Yan's artistic world contains China farmers' views on life, history and even time and space.
The narrative strategy and language mode of Red Sorghum pursue strong defamiliarization effect, and the novel is guided by emotion and promoted by emotion.
Among the narrators in the novel, the first person and the third person overlap. In the use of language, Red Sorghum pursues strong expressive force, and everything is subject to the free creation and aesthetic pleasure of the theme. Attach importance to feeling, boldly use rich rhetorical devices such as metaphor, exaggeration and synaesthesia, as well as the choice of language color and the creation of momentum.