Introduction to Xiangzi Camel;
1 Camel Xiangzi tells the story of Xiangzi, a young and energetic rickshaw puller in Beiping, China.
Xiangzi is from the countryside. He is a bankrupt young farmer. He is hardworking, simple and kind. He kept everything that he was brought up and educated in the countryside, but he never wanted to go back to the countryside. Xiangzi, who came to the city from the countryside, is eager to buy a car of his own with his honest labor. Being an independent laborer is Xiangzi's wish, hope and even religion. With hard work and perseverance, he spent three years scrimping and saving, and finally realized his ideal and became a self-reliant first-class driver. But after only half a year, the car was taken away by deserters in the war. Xiangzi lost his car and brought back only three camels. Xiangzi didn't give up, but still stubbornly started from scratch, and it was more economical to pull the cart. However, before he could buy a car again, all his savings were ransacked by detectives, and his dream of buying a car was shattered again.
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When Xiangzi pulled the rickshaw again, it was at the expense of his deformed marriage with Tigress. The good times didn't last long. Because Tigress died in childbirth, he had to sell a rickshaw to arrange the funeral. At this point, his life ideal was completely shattered. Coupled with the suicide of his beloved woman Joy, it blew out the last spark of hope in his heart. After being hit by life, Xiangzi began to lose any desire and confidence in life, and could no longer summon up the courage to live. He is no longer as proud of pulling carts as he used to be. He hates pulling carts and working.
Xiangzi, teased by life, started playing games, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. In order to drink, Xiangzi cheated money everywhere and eventually became "urban garbage", earning a living by giving people weddings and funerals and doing odd jobs. Xiangzi changed from a "decent, strong, dreamy, selfish, personal, powerful and great" bottom worker to a "depraved, selfish, unfortunate and socially ill child, the last ghost of individualism".
The Artistic Structure of Xiangzi Camel;
A prominent feature of Lao She's novels in structure is that the writer is the center and the plot revolves around the fate of the characters. Xiangzi's fate is the central clue in Camel Xiangzi. In his works, Xiangzi's leading role is always unshakable, and all the other characters he wrote exist because of Xiangzi. People are mainly Xiangzi, of course, if the victim pulls a cart. In this way, the author let everyone have a relationship with the car, thus tying Xiangzi under the willow tree on the grass like a lamb. The novel takes the life experience of the protagonist Xiangzi as the description focus and structural center, takes Xiangzi's struggle, struggle and degeneration as narrative clues, organizes materials and arranges plots in a beaded way, which is dense and condensed. This simple, centralized and clear structure not only makes the plot of the novel complete and accurate, but also effectively shows the complete process of the character's development and the inevitability of its tragic ending. At the same time, through the intricate relationship between Xiangzi and the people around him and the description of various life scenes, it reveals the social life environment of that particular era, which is both simple and complicated, thus revealing the social significance of Xiangzi's tragic fate in a broader social background.