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The New Year's Sacrifice is a very famous novel written by Lu Xun who was one of the greatest writers in contemporary China.It told us a story about the miserable life of a woman named Xiang Lin ,which reflects the social class struggle in China after the revolution of 1911.
Xiang Lin was born in a very poor family in he countryside.After the death of her husband, her mother in law wanted to marry her to a farmer for money.So she had to flee and then worked as a maid in a landlord's family where she suffered discrimination and abusion from almost everyone .Later,her mother in law found her and forced her to marry that farmer.She lived a short happy life with his second simple-minded but hard-working husband and gave birth to a child for him. But it did not last long. His father was tortured to death by the local landlord ,which made her had to work in the landlord's family again to raise her son. Unfortunately, her son was eaten by a wolf when she went out to do the laundry .In the end, she find herself can not suffer more and then committed suicide in the New Year's Eve while everyone was celebrating the New Year.
From my perspective ,this novel reveals the fact that in China people from lower class ,especially women, suffered a lot from the mean treatment and prejudice by society.Just like Xiang Lin ,women in rural areas are always forced to marry someone they know little about just because they have a lot of money and high social status. Some extremely poor families even had to sell their daughters for money as they can not afford their life .It is hard to blame those parents How can you talk about morality if you can not even survive ?We can not change the fact that they were born to be poor but we can donate something we do not really need to them instead of doing nothing. People should never be so indifferent like the landlord did since it is human nature to help someone when we have the ability.In addition ,people sometimes still judge a person by where he or she was from not what he or she can do .Although this situation was much better than it used to be,we have to admitted that we tend to be more respectful for someone who has strong backgrounds than someone who does not. For example,when we want to marry someone from a poor family, we always consider whether she only marries you for your money.There are 13 billions people in China .No matter how hard the government worked ,poverty still existed so the least thing we can do is to be nice with the poor people and show respect to them.We can simply achieve our goal by valuing their work and encourage them when they are in desperation.