"Camel Xiangzi" is a novel by Mr. Lao She, the protagonist is Xiangzi, and the whole novel revolves around Xiangzi. Xiangzi is a young man who has entered the city as a migrant worker, and when he first entered the city, Xiangzi was full of passion for life, full of hope for the future, and also planned for life:
He hopes to be able to buy a car of his own through his own efforts, and even gradually own more cars and drive a car dealership.
Not only that, Shoko has a further vision of life: when her career is stable, she will marry a country girl who can be honest, hard-working, young and strong, and decent and well-behaved as a wife.
To this end, Shoko worked hard, and the name of the novel "Camel Shoko" also aptly reflects this point of Shoko, in which it is written: Shoko's diligence makes him tired and bent over, and his back is arched like a camel. This sentence vividly reflects the characteristics of Shoko's hard-working and hard-working.
The reason why Liu Siye's daughter Hu Yu fell in love with Xiangzi was inseparable from his diligence and enthusiasm for life.
However, the reality of society did not make Shoko get her wish. On the contrary, Shoko's life is full of hardships and tribulations: the novel takes the three ups and downs of Shoko's purchase of a car as the main clue, and at the same time, the love combination of Shoko and Tiger Girl is also a clue, and the two clues are intertwined but independent of each other.
The tragedy of Xiangzi's three ups and three falls has an appropriate portrayal in the novel: Xiangzi pulled a foreign car to cut a short way, but mistakenly entered the Luoquan Hutong, turned around and returned to the original point.
In addition, the novel also uses a lot of ink to delicately depict the life of the people around Shoko, who have different classes and personalities, and their life circles are intertwined, forming a complete urban life outlook. Through the depiction of different characters, Mr. Lao She comprehensively reveals the current social situation at that time, and then renders the inevitability of the tragedy of Xiangzi's fate.
As the protagonist of "Camel Shoko", Shoko is the representative of the low-level laborers of the old society, and Shoko is a hardworking, kind but unenlightened coachman.
The novel is set in Peking in the 1920s. In the 1920s, Xiangzi came to Beiping from the countryside and became a North Drifter, in order to earn a living and gain a foothold in the city, Xiangzi tried almost all the physical work, he was loyal and honest, hard-working, industrious and self-motivated, although silent, but he was unwilling to imitate the words and deeds of the people in the city.
In life, Shoko is a very self-disciplined person. He does not smoke, does not drink, does not gamble money, does not have any hobbies, and the reason why Shoko has maintained such habits for many years is because he has set long-term goals for himself and planned his life.
Shoko's goal is to save money to buy a rickshaw and then get a foothold in the city with the help of pulling a car. In order to achieve this goal, Shoko tried to reduce unnecessary expenses as much as possible, even if he was sick, he was reluctant to spend money on medicine.
After three years of hard work, Shoko finally saved up enough for a hundred yuan and bought a car, which is the real asset of Shoko's name, he opened his own car wife life, and relied on pulling a car to maintain his life in the city.
Character determines destiny. Shoko is conservative in his thinking, even a little selfish, he is silent, rarely talks to others, he never contacts with other coachmen, he lives alone in his own closed world, in the 1920s, in the era of war and chaos, Shoko did not pay attention to the world, as always pulled his car.
Once, on the way to pull the car, he obviously knew that things were not good, and even had a premonition that something bad would happen, but he could not let go of the so-called face, continued to pull the car, and as a result, the car he had just bought for half a year was robbed by the soldiers.
Shoko's first car in life was lost in such a strange way, but Shoko, who was strong, was unwilling, did not own his own car, did not pull his own car, and Shoko's life had no goal in an instant.
Buying your own car and starting the life of pulling a car is Shoko's life goal and meaning in life. Driven by this psychological action, Shoko began to save money again, ready to buy another car. The stronger side of Shoko's personality helps him continue to realize himself, leaving early and returning late to pull the car desperately, and saving his diet to the point that ordinary people can hardly imagine.
In order to save money to buy a car again, Shoko did not hesitate to take the risk, and after he stole two camels through life and death, he still thought of selling camels to buy a car.
After selling the camel, Shoko gradually saved enough money to buy a car for the second time. Mrs. Fang asks Xiangzi to keep the money in the bank, but Xiangzi stubbornly believes that it is best to put the money in her hands, but the hard-earned hard-earned money, including the more than thirty yuan that Xiangzi hid in the crock pot, was washed away by Detective Sun.
When Detective Sun threatens to intimidate Xiangzi, the cowardly Xiangzi does not dare to resist, let alone call for help, and at this time, Xiangzi gradually loses herself under the influence of her own negative personality. Shoko thinks that she can't resist and can't do it, which is the second time shoko's ideal has failed.
In the second stage of buying a car, Shoko is constantly realizing herself and constantly losing herself, seeing others drinking and eating cigarettes to go to the Qinglou, the wronged Xiangzi is very envious and thinks they are right.
Shoko has since felt that tobacco and alcohol will not cost a lot of money but can comfort him. However, at this time, in the psychological balance of self-realization and self-loss, self-realization still prevails, and Shoko still refuses to get involved in tobacco and alcohol in her heart.
In order to save enough money to buy a car, the selfish, narrow-minded and conservative side of Shoko's bones is revealed.
In the past, Shoko was loyal and honest, hard-working, and industrious, which was his original intention when he entered the city, and he would not grab business with other coachmen, let alone clash with other coachmen.
But at this time, in order to achieve the small goal of life, Shoko gave up his original intention, and in this process, Shoko also experienced painful psychological resistance.
The third time Tiger Lady used her own private money to help Shoko buy a car, this time Shoko partially realized herself, but in the end she completely lost herself. The marriage with Tiger Girl is not Shoko's original intention, and Shoko has lost the direction of life's pursuit.
Tiger Girl is a scheming but bold pursuit of love. As the only daughter of Liu Siye, Tiger Lady helps Liu Siye to take care of the family business, and in the process of taking care of it, she is mean and stingy to the coachman, and has a sense of arrogance and domineering.
Tiger girl who looks very sorry and has a very hot personality, but she is fierce and fast, she also likes to scold people, many unspoken filthy words, tiger girls are blurting out, opening their mouths to come, and speaking very naturally, it is simply exported into dirty.
Tiger Girl has a good feeling for Shoko, and in order to achieve the purpose of being with Shoko, she carefully plans. Tiger Lady tells Shoko that she is pregnant, and eventually cooks mature rice with Shoko raw rice. Because of Tiger Girl's plan, Shoko married Tiger Girl, whom he did not like, but It was not his will for Xiangzi to marry Tiger Girl, so it made him give up his ideal of life.
Shoko had planned to buy a car of her own through her own efforts and live her ideal life, and he wishfully believed that making money to buy a car would change his destiny. However, the threat of the tiger girl and the pony and the old man's encounter make Shoko put all hopes down, and in the end, Shoko reluctantly compromises with reality.
After getting married, Tiger Lady strictly disciplines Shoko, and although Shoko temporarily realizes herself in the so-called career, Shoko is extremely distressed inside. Emotionally, Shoko loses herself, and he gradually loses his yearning for freedom and ideals.
Shoko's beautiful disillusionment with her wife is shattered, but the blow is not over. When Tiger Girl had difficulty giving birth, Shoko was distressed that money did not send Tiger Girl to the hospital, Tiger Girl died in childbirth, Shoko had to sell the car to give Tiger Girl a funeral, and the death of Tiger Girl and her child and the loss of the car caused a heavy blow to Xiangzi.
Although Shoko relied on Tiger Girl to achieve the ideal of buying a car, he was extremely distressed in his heart and finally had to sell the car because of Tiger Girl's death, which made Shoko completely lose his ideal of life.
Later, Shoko met Xiaofuzi and fell in love with Xiaofuzi, Xiaofuzi fully conformed to Shoko's fantasies about his wife, and the appearance of Xiaofuzi also made Shoko ignite a glimmer of hope for life, Xiaofuzi is a kind but sad figure, she was sold to the officer by her father, and she returned to her mother's house for the first time after the officer was transferred.
Shoko likes Kofukuko, but after he sees Kofukuko's father and brother, the selfish and narrow-minded Shoko makes the decision to leave Kofukuko.
XiaoFuzi returned to her mother's house, it was the beginning of the tragic fate, her father became an alcoholic and killed her mother, the two younger brothers were helpless, the family was about to be broken, Xiaofuzi was sold to a brothel by her father, and Xiaofuzi, who could not bear the humiliation, chose to hang herself and end her life.
Since then, Shoko has gradually become insensitive, depraved, lazy, selfish, and greedy, and he no longer desperately pulls a car to make money as he did when he was young, but has a strong dislike for taxis and labor.
Xiangzi no longer respects the old and loves the young as he did when he was young, he no longer works honestly, he begins to rob the business of the sick and weak old, goes to Mr. Cao's house to cheat on food and drink, and eventually becomes a bully who is weak and weak, a person who is almost a rogue. More precisely, at this time, Shoko seems to be a complete scoundrel, and in this way, Shoko has completely fallen and is dying in the fall.
Three failed to buy a car, three times to fight, and finally Shoko completely lost herself, which is the trajectory of Shoko's life in the city that is incompatible with urban life. Shoko's attempt to struggle in that world on her own is so pale and powerless that Shoko succumbs to fate and sinks infinitely in the fall.
Shoko's character leads to the tragedy of his life, and Shoko's ideological and character flaws determine his loneliness and vulnerability and inevitable failure.
Because of the pain of money, Shoko did not send Tiger Girl to the hospital, resulting in Tiger Girl's death in childbirth; when Xiaofuzi was lonely and alone, Xiangzi did not go to rescue her, which indirectly led to Xiaofuzi committing suicide.
It can be said that Shoko's cowardice, selfishness, incompetence, stinginess and cognition indirectly led to their deaths, and these factors also became the trigger for Shoko's eventual depravity.
In the form of a novel, through the tragedy of Xiangzi, Lao She presents to the world the hardships and helplessness of the low-level laborers in the old society and the city, and reveals the factors that led to the tragic fate of Xiangzi, and the novel has a strong realistic significance and practical significance.