"Xiangzi the Camel" realistically depicts the tragic fate of a rickshaw driver in Beijing. Xiangzi comes from the countryside, and after he pulls on a rented foreign car, he aspires to buy a car and pull it himself, to be an independent laborer. Inspired and supported by his strong confidence, after three years of hard work, he exchanged his blood and sweat for a foreign cart. But not long after, the warlord's soldiers took away his car; facing this blow after blow, he struggled and still stubbornly tried to make greater efforts to realize his dream life wish. But it was all in vain: he bought a car with Tigress's savings and soon had to sell it to take care of Tigress's funeral. After many setbacks, the dream is completely shattered. The suicide of his favorite Xiao Fu Zi blows out the last spark of hope in his heart, and he loses any hope and confidence in life, and falls from being aggressive to being self-indulgent: the original upright and kind Xiang Zi is crushed by the millstone of life. This tragedy is a powerful revelation of the old society's crime of turning people into ghosts.

Xiangzi is a distinctive character of the image of an ordinary car driver, in his body has many of the good qualities of the working people. He is kind and simple, loves labor, and has the positive and tough spirit of a camel in life. He is always strong and struggling, which is also a manifestation of his uneasiness with the lowly social status. This is a legitimate desire of the individual laborer to live in spite of his inferiority. These character traits, in addition to his social status and unfairness, play an indelible role in his tragedy, which arouses the reader's strong sympathy. The fact that such a thrifty and strong person finally becomes a top-class "prick" and goes on the road of degeneration clearly exposes the evils of the irrational society that corrupts people's hearts and souls. The work says: "The laziness of the bitter man is the natural result of his efforts which are in vain, and the bitter man's prickliness contains some axioms." It also says: "Man has lifted himself from the beasts, but now he still drives his own kind to the beasts. Xiangzi is still in the city of culture, but he has become a beast. It's not his own fault at all." It is from such a realization that Lao She wrote this tragedy with deep sympathy for those who are insulted and harmed. This makes this work has the power of angry accusation and strong critical spirit, y branded on the reader's heart.

The whole book is full of the scenery of life in Beijing, and many of the descriptions are colorful paintings of Beijing's customs and world conditions. Lao She was very familiar with the various characters depicted in the work, he used a simple narrative tone, vivid Beijing colloquialisms, concise and forceful writing rich in local color life images and character traits of the characters. In the use of realistic techniques and language condensation, have achieved success. Camel Xiangzi" is an excellent realistic novel.

Locke Xiangzi (2)

Winter vacation I read a book Lao She's masterpiece, "Locke Xiangzi", about a rickshaw driver in the old Beijing, Xiangzi's story. Xiangzi has an ideal: to have his own foreign car. So with hard work and perseverance, he saves money and finally gets what he wants. However, the good times didn't last long, and soon his cart was taken away by soldiers. But he didn't get discouraged and bought another foreign car by his own efforts. But he was so unlucky that his hard-earned savings were looted again. After three times of this, Xiangzi could no longer find the courage to live. He began to play the game of life, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and completely degenerated into the trash of the city.

This story is a tragedy, a complete tragedy. A man who was once hard-working and determined, with his own goals, has ended up as the trash of society. Once upon a time, Xiangzi was kind and simple, honest and upright, and had a positive and resilient approach to life like a camel. All the people around him were monks for a day, ringing a bell for a day, but Xiangzi was not satisfied with the status quo, he worked hard for a better life, and struggled, he preferred to take great risks to earn a little more money, to achieve the life he wanted. He pursued, pursued success, pursued happiness. But even that didn't change his tragic end.　

Perhaps this is the reality, cruel, sad and hopeless. Ideal and reality are always full of contradictions, they often can not be reconciled, but they exist at the same time. Society is realistic, it will not change for a person's ideals and will not be flawless. People strive for their own ideals, but in the end, they may not be able to achieve success. Just like Xiangzi, he worked hard to seek a better life, but the end was so tragic.　

For Camel Xiangzi, I feel sorry, I feel sorry, I feel helpless, but I also feel admiration, I admire his former strength, his progress. However, in the end, he failed to overcome himself, failed to overcome the society, and was finally defeated. Maybe it's because of the extreme darkness of society, maybe it's because of personal factors. In any case, the environment plays at least an important role in changing people. If the social security at that time was better, Xiangzi might be able to realize his ideal, and he might not become a walking corpse. People are inseparable from society, and society determines people, if you can't deal with the relationship between reality and ideals, society and yourself, it is likely to lose the original self.

Human beings are thinking animals and should have their own ideals and goals. However, they vary from person to person and from society to society. If you can't always realize your ideals, then you may become "Xiangzi", degenerate, decay, and hate life. After all, there are only a few people who can persevere throughout their lives. The quest itself is a process of constant change, but this process can be very complicated, people can easily lose themselves, and if they lose themselves, they will lose their way, and even fall.

Locke Xiangzi (3)

After reading "Locke Xiangzi", a tragic masterpiece written by Lao She, my first feeling is that the ideal does not match the reality. Xiangzi's life dream of a foreign car in the numerous bumps in the peak of the broken, scattered. Indeed, the mismatch between ideals and reality creates countless regrets. How many students can not enter the ideal university due to family circumstances; how many talents in various fields can not enter their respective fields of specialization due to internal and external reasons. It is impossible for dreams to come true just by fantasizing, and even if you pursue them tirelessly like Xiangzi, your dreams will be dashed in the end. This is a tragedy, to say the least. At the same time, Xiangzi's ultimate degradation is inseparable from the degradation of society. Some people come from a poor background, so they struggle for their future, but to no avail. What causes this is the cruel society. In the real world, money seems to represent everything, and the idea that knowledge is more important than money is simply a "false proposition". Therefore, if you want to get a foothold in the real world, you need to have sufficient knowledge and a good life background. In contrast, the latter factor is much more important, which is why there are so many regrets and even tragedies. Opportunities in the real world also determine the realization of ideals. Faraday's family was poor when he was a child, and it was by chance that Harvey, the director of the Royal Academy, recognized this bright and studious child, who eventually made Faraday a famous electromagnetist. Konosuke Matsushita, a famous Japanese businessman, had just started his own business and was once bankrupt, but it was also by chance that he met the world's most famous brand-name companies, which led him to the road to prosperity. But such people are only a minority. Ideal and reality coexist in order to realize the breakthrough and create history.