Lu Xun's anatomy and attack on the old society and the dark forces that oppressed the people were extremely profound and fierce. For the people's backwardness and all shortcomings, his anatomy is also extremely profound and his criticism is also very sharp. However, Lu Xun's profound observation and anatomy of the people lies not only in excavating the shortcomings of the people, but also in excavating the noblest aspects of the quality and character of the working people in China, and at the same time, he is always studying the potential strength of the people. Lu Xun's position and attitude are the most firm and clear: everything is for the progress of the people and the birth of a new society. For the enemies of the old society and the people, he used a ruthless scalpel to give incomparable hatred and uncompromising denial; For the people, he always shows the deepest love and always holds a hope: revolution! It is the unchangeable spirit of Lu Xun's thought and creation to combine sober and grim realism with a strong concept of friend or foe, a clear love-hate relationship, a complete denial of the old revolutionary stand and a warm affirmation of the new revolutionary stand.
This spirit runs through all Lu Xun's works. The two short stories to be told here, Tomorrow (written in 1920 and received in "Scream") and Blessing (written in 1924 and received in "Wandering"), also show Lu Xun's spirit most profoundly.
In these two short stories, Lu Xun described two working women in semi-feudal and semi-colonial China-Sister Sansi and Sister Xianglin. Here, we have seen Lu Xun's profound anatomy and description, his deep love for the working people, and the lofty soul and strength of the working people in China.
Sister-in-law Sans's story is simple. She is a poor ordinary young woman and a widow. Since her husband died a year or two ago, she has been spinning cotton yarn with her own hands to support herself and her three-year-old son. There is no doubt that her three-year-old son, Bao Er, is her hope for life and the meaning of her work and even life. However, her Bao Er suddenly fell ill and died. The work "Tomorrow" tells the story of Sister-in-law Shansi seeking medical advice and doing her best to save her son. However, when her son died, she suffered a heavy mental shock. However, this work, which has only more than 4,000 words, describes such a common thing, not just a mother's great maternal love and the profound pain of losing her child-especially the pain of a poor young widowed mother losing her only son. In this painful description of the young widow, this work vividly depicts such a woman's pure and determined character, and fully shows the noble soul of this ordinary and clumsy woman (working woman), especially the noblest factor in this noble soul-the power that Sister Sans used to resist her miserable life, which was excavated in the author's painful anatomy.
It is the theme of this work to describe the pain that Sister Sans was deprived of Bao Er. It can be said that studying and dissecting Shisan Sisao's beliefs and hopes about life is the main theme of this theme.
What are the beliefs and hopes of Sansisao?
Let's look at the author's simplest description. For example, in the middle of the night at the beginning of work, under the dim light, Mrs. Sans sat on the edge of the bed with Bao Er seriously ill in her arms, thinking: God also asked for a sign. She may have asked for it, but she also ate it unilaterally. What if it still doesn't work? That's the only way to see He Xiaoxian (the most famous local doctor with expensive consultation fee). This is her practical plan. At the same time, she hopes that it may be lighter during the day and heavier at night in Bao Er. As soon as the sun comes out tomorrow, the fever will go down and the asthma will be flat, which is really a common occurrence for patients.
So, the tomorrow she hoped for finally arrived in her waiting, but when she looked at Bao Er's nose in the morning light, it was already flapping. She is very decisive. She immediately ran to He's house with Bao 'er in her arms. When she saw He Xiaoxian's unusually long nails, she had hope: Bao 'er wanted to live.
Bao Er is actually getting worse and worse on the way back from He Xiaoxian's house, but her heart that she wants him to live has given her all the strength to support herself. Finally, Bao Er was finally taken away. By midnight (the next night), her tears had run out. She sat by the bed, and Bao Er's body was lying on the bed. She opened her eyes and looked around, feeling very strange: nothing would happen. It's just a dream, she thought. These things are all dreams. Wake up tomorrow, have a good sleep in bed, and Bao Er will have a good sleep around. He will wake up, call "mom" and jump around to play.
Finally, Bao Er was carried out and buried. She also knows that this is really not a dream, and her Bao Er is really dead. She sat by the bed. It was the third night. Looking around, she just felt restless. She felt that the room was too quiet, too big and too empty. She didn't want to see the house, so she blew out the light and lay down. I cried and thought: I thought that I was spinning cotton yarn at that time, and Bao Er sat next to me eating fennel beans, staring at a pair of small black eyes and thinking for a while, and then said: "Mom, dad sells wonton, and I also sell wonton when I am old. I will give you a lot of money." At that time, even the spun cotton yarn seemed to be interesting and alive every inch. ..... This is Sister Sans's faith and hope for life! She lives and struggles with such beliefs and hopes. This gave her all the meaning and strength. Lu Xun's description of this aspect is really simple and profound. However, without such faith and hope, people obviously can't live. So, what will happen to San Sisao?
The author's painful anatomy goes like this: "Sister-in-law Sans, though clumsy, knows that reincarnation is impossible, and he (she) really won't see you in Bao Er. He sighed and said to himself, "Bao Er, you should still be here. Please come to see me in my dream. So I closed my eyes and wanted to go to bed quickly. I miss Bao Er, breathing hard in silence and emptiness, and I can understand him. "
In other words, the good fourth sister-in-law must struggle and struggle in despair and emptiness, and must struggle in despair and emptiness. In a word, Sister-in-law Shansi's tragedy and dark fate are doomed. However, if she doesn't want to be overwhelmed by this feeling of being too quiet, too big and surrounded by space, she will have to resist, hoping to meet her treasure in her dream and struggle to restore her faith and hope. As for whether she dreamed of her son or not, it doesn't matter, because she has to resist emptiness to live, which has been decided. (The author later said in the preface of Scream that "in Tomorrow, I didn't mention that my sister-in-law meditated and didn't see my son's dream". This is by no means to say that Sister Sans will be or has been conquered by emptiness, but that he doesn't want her to feel too empty in the struggle against emptiness. )
This is Lu Xun's description of Shan Si Xun. The pain of the good fourth sister-in-law, her tragic fate, her spirit of struggle, especially her spirit of resisting emptiness with hope in the end, are vividly unfolded in front of us. Because of Mr. Lu Xun's observation, anatomy and description, every reader will be deeply saddened by the experience of Sister Sansi, and at the same time will be deeply moved, loved and confident by her pure, determined and kind personality, beautiful life belief and noble soul, especially her struggle spirit of restoring hope and belief to resist the tragic life!