Xiangzi is eighteen years old, tall and strong, and he is a foreign driver. For the soul of this book. Xiangzi is an ordinary coachman with a distinctive personality, and he has many excellent qualities of working people. He is kind and simple, loves labor, and has camel-like enthusiasm and tenacious spirit for life, but he is also unreasonable, full of lies, good at taking advantage and selling his life.
It seems that he can tolerate all grievances at ordinary times, but there is also a need to resist in his character. He has always been strong, struggling and uneasy about his humble social status.
But Xiangzi was squeezed and oppressed by the old society, and his wishes were broken again and again by this dark society. Xiangzi's tragic life profoundly exposed the darkness of old China, and reflected the image of warlords and the poor at the bottom of Beijing living in the abyss of pain under the rule of darkness.
Xiangzi's characters experience
Together: positive and strong → came to Beiping as a rickshaw puller, worked hard for three years, scraped together 100 yuan and bought a new car. → Self-confidence and full of hope for life.
A fall: out of the desire for money, even people and cars were arrested by the gendarmerie as able-bodied men. The ideal is shattered for the first time → I feel unfair for the first time, and I am still full of hope for life and never admit defeat.
Second: sell the camel, rent a monthly fee at Mr. Cao's house, save money to buy a new car → there is hope, and I feel warm and kind.
Raul: In the dry month, Xiangzi's hard-earned money was also blackmailed by Detective Sun in a raid, and his second hope was dashed. → Get lost, resigned and numb.
Three times: Tigress married Xiangzi. Tigress bought Xiangzi's neighbor's car at a low price, and Xiangzi got a car again → Xiangzi could pull a car again.
Three falls: Tigress died in childbirth. In order to arrange Tigress's funeral, Xiangzi sold the car again. I also know the news of Joy's death → The gangster lived, completely degenerated and lost any hope.