Artistic Features of The Ordinary World

The work spans from the beginning of 1975 to 1985, reflecting in a panoramic way the great historical changes in the life of China's urban and rural society during this decade. For such a huge project, Lu Yao adopted the "three-line combination method", i.e., he arranged three clues in the development of the plot and the activities of the characters, all of which are in chronological order, and included some of the major historical events that took place in China during this decade.

The three clues reflect the content of life, which he puts in the background and environment of the times and society, so that the composition and connection of the plots in the work are often linked back and forth, sparse and dense, and intricate and varied. In addition, the author chose Shuangshui Village as the link between the Sun brothers and Tian Fujun, and the place where the plot unfolds keeps changing due to the activities of the characters in Shuangshui Village.

Thus, the three clues in the work are like three rivers, and Shuangshui Village is like the source of these three rivers, which flow separately at times, and cross and converge together at times, reflecting the organic connection and mutual illumination between them, in addition to their relative independence. This kind of connection and illumination, **** the same for the performance of the theme service, reflecting the social life is not only broad, but also rich in connotation.

The Ordinary World is a literary work that eulogizes ordinary laborers with warm realism. Compared with Life, The Ordinary World has a more humanistic height, and the writer transforms suffering into a kind of spiritual motivation to move forward. There is no shortage of new-era writers who depict suffering, but there are not many writers who really turn suffering into a spiritual impetus, and Lu Yao is one of them.

This novel, while displaying the difficult living conditions of ordinary people, is also a great effort to write about their beautiful hearts and resilience in overcoming difficulties. The protagonists of the work, Sun Shao'an and Sun Shaoping, are young people struggling with poverty, but they are self-reliant, relying on their own tenacity to fight against fate and pursuing their own moral perfection.

Sun Shao'an is a struggler who is determined to change his destiny based on the countryside, while Sun Shaoping is a "runaway" who has the knowledge of modern civilization and aspires to integrate into the city. Their stories constitute the polarized experience of the struggle of ordinary people in Chinese society.

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