Why Is Fugui Important To Animals

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In the Novel To Live by Yu Hua animals are presented everywhere by the people within the story. The main character Fugui is significant to an ox. Long Er is significant to a fox because of his sly tactics with how he cheated Fugui and his family out of their home. Youqing is significant to a lamb because of his childish behaviour and innocence. Fugui is an ox because of how hardworking he is and how strong willed he is. Fugoi wasn't always hard working he used to spend all of his time in a casino like brothel named “The House of Qing”. in the house of qing Fugio beats his pregnant wife for not going home when he told her to go home. Youqing is a lamb because of his innocence and childish behavior throughout the novel until his death then he is a dead lamb that was slaughtered. In the novel youqing takes care of two lambs which are slaughtered at the communal kitchen in the name of communism “They’re the commune’s lambs, not yours!”(Yu 114). Youqing is slaughtered involuntarily by Chunsheng in the movie but in the novel he is sanguinated by an incompetent doctor to save Chunsheng’s wife who is the magistrate's wife magistrate is Chunsheng. …show more content…

Long Er and his casino money sharks are fooling fugio into losing the last 1 mu of land they have left after fugio father gambled away one mu before fugio was born. Long Er ends up like most foxes, Dead. Long Er is convicted of being a landlord and is sentenced to death by execution and he is shot five times “Fugio runs home and tells his wife Jiazhen that they pumped five bullets into Long Er then he says if he hadnt gambled away the families land it would be him who was being executed and not Long

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