On The Image Of Children In Yu Hua's Novels

Since 1983,Yu Hua has been writing novels and a lot of vivid figures have been contributed for current literary area.However,the literary has been mainly concentrating on the male figures,the female figures secondarily,in the novels of Yu Hua,the children figures have been being ignored intentionally or unintentionally.Actually,Yu Hua has been devoting a sea of expectation on the children in the novels.Yu Hua’s profound self-examination for society and realization for human nature have been reflected by children’s behaviors and mind which own deep symbolic importance and culture indication.This article is to explore the children figures of Yu Hua’s novel in 4 different dimensions: unique children figures creating reasons,rich and complex children classification,structural children functions and aesthetic children connotation.Chapter 1 Unique children figures creating reasons.Writing is the re-organization of memory.The children figures usually reflect the childhood of writers.This chapter combined with Yu Hua’s growing experience,reading and cultural realization in the beginning of creation to analyze the reasons why Yu Hua prefers children figures in 3 dimensions: unique life realization,absurd society marks and foreign culture affection.Chapter 2 Rich and complex children classification.Firstly,a sea of children figures have been confirmed to exists by sorting out Yu Hua’s novels.Then,the different characters,fate,manners and mind of each sort of children figures are to be analyzed deeply.Chapter 3 Structural children functions.The children figures who are indispensable in Yu Hua’s novels undertake the structural functions.This chapter will explain the structural functions in 3 dimensions : story teller and relator,allegoric storyline and metaphorical image.Chapter 4 Aesthetic children connotation.The children figures in Yu Hua’s novels are not only for creating images but also own deep cultural direction.Yu Hua has been exploring the truth,goodness and beauty,the essence of human nature’s loneliness and desire,the cultural predicament from these children figures.