Literary Characters In Soul Mountains By Mabel Lee

Literature is truly an opening through which people see the real world. They have the opportunity of knowing what the real world is all about and drawing their own conclusions. Writes just pen down what is in their minds and leave for the readers to give their own assumptions and eventually be an eye opener to the real world. These literary features have been applied by Mabel Lee in Soul Mountains.
From the beginning of the story, we are introduced to the characters ‘you’ and ‘she’. The ‘you’ is described as an indigenous traveler, perhaps a tourist who pursues out the indefinable Lingshan sacred mountain. We realize that he has been in the city for a long time and now wants the village life. For him, he wants to avoid the idea of doing not too demanding jobs, just relaxing having set up a family. He wants to be always be busy working.
He meets the ‘she’ who seems disturbed and confused. This makes you’s journey to change into that of romantic affair. This lady here, looks hopeless and what she only wants is intercourse with this man. The lady at a certain leaves in this man’s story. We are made to know that he is a story teller who later discovers his talent.
In the meantime, I as an academic and a fan of writing journeys to Sichuan after the misdiagnosis of cancer of the lung. For him, he wants to start a true life away from the notion of real life of the state. A keen observer and follower of literature will concur with me that the Chinese culture of hard work must be pegged on Soul Mountain. This is because of their ever growing economy and development in and out of China. They are all over the world working refusing simple life of just sitting. They are working.
Women for a long time have been undermined. Their role in the s...

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...d ruin the family’s reputation and that of the descendants. This is meant to keep them safe and relevant.
In conclusion, women in the Red Sorghum have been depicted as having total control of their lives despite the current situation of war they are involved in. They don’t fear but risk sneaking food to the fighters. Women in Red Sorghum are therefore bold. In Rice, even though they take in a man whose desire for sex and power is insatiable, they don’t seem to control their life by themselves. They just wanted to have Five Dragons in to fill the space left by the father of the family.
References
Kang-i Sun Chang, Stephen Owen. The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Tong, Su. Rice: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2004.
Xingjian, Gao. Soul Mountain. HarperCollins Publishers, 2010.
Yan, Mo. Red Sorghum. Random House, 2012.