Analysis Of Ah Cheng's King Of Tree

Ah Cheng’s book, King of Tree, gives reader a firsthand experience at the Chinese Cultural Revolutions in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. The most interesting thing about the book is it gives the reader the point view of Cheng, but barely mention about the cultural revolutions directly in the book. This means he left reader to interpret his writing for themselves and draw any conclusion they want. Narrator was critical and as the same time forgiving for this period. Narrator is critical about his life style during Cultural Revolution and he is critical why he is teaching school when he is not qualified to be a teacher. On other hand he is forgiving for this period because he does not mention it by name. First, Narrator was critical about his life style during this period. Narrator life was difficult at the begging of Cultural Revolution; his family was arrested and killed by the government, because they speak out against government, government took all of his family property so he grow up as orphan child (Cheng 59). During this time narrator don’t have anything to eat, sometimes he stay all day without eating anything if he get lucky some of his classmates take him home so he can eat with them and stay over there for overnight. After two years living this kind of life style, he quit school and

He does not want to speak for other people but only himself. In his life he had many down times especially in “Kings of Tree” when he and his fellow workers are working without break to cut down old trees and king of trees, because once it falls down the concept of King of Tree is destroyed Lili said (Cheng 43). Regardless of what he going through he avoided mentioning cultural revolution, he feels this only one-time occasion and his not only one going through this hard time. He over looked with his positive experiences the lack of specific and low point of his life throughout the