Combined with the relevant plots of the article, this paper discusses the understanding of the theme of Camel Xiangzi.

Combined with the relevant plots of the article, this paper discusses the understanding of the theme of Camel Xiangzi;

The plot of Camel Xiangzi is not complicated, just as simple as Xiangzi's experience.

Xiangzi is an honest, wooden and tough young man who came out of the countryside to pull rickshaws in Beiping. His only ambition is to save money to buy his own car. But he just bought one, and he just got stuck in a daze, and the car was taken away. One night, he took the opportunity to escape from the barracks, took three camels, and sold 35 yuan cheaply in a panic.

In order to buy another car, Xiangzi pulled the car even harder and even began to steal the business of the old driver, which he had never disdained before. Si Liu's ugly and fierce daughter Tigress seduced him. Xiangzi was ashamed to think about it, so he left Liu's house and went to Professor Cao's house to pull a private chartered car. Just as his life was getting normal, Tigress found him again and lied to him that she was pregnant.

Mr. Cao was framed by students, and Detective Sun took the opportunity to blackmail him and cheated Xiangzi out of all his savings. Desperate, he had to go back to Si Liu's garage. Tigress's father and daughter fell out at the birthday party. After he married Tigress, he had to move to the slums.

Tigress thought her father would forgive her sooner or later and soon spent all her savings. Xiangzi regretted being cheated into marriage, and pulled harder and harder, hoping to be independent. One day it was very hot and it was raining heavily. When it was cold and hot, Xiangzi came home with a high fever and was ill for more than two months. The body is not as strong as before, but Tigress often scoffs at him. Xiangzi was in pain, but fortunately, he could get some comfort from meeting a girl next door named Joy. Joy is a prostitute. She wants to earn money to support her alcoholic father and two younger brothers. Tigress died in childbirth. Xiangzi wanted to marry this poor and kind girl, but he gave up at the thought of supporting her big family.

Xiangzi's mood is getting worse and worse. He learned to smoke and drink and began to associate with fooling around drivers. He was even infected with gonorrhea by his hostess while pulling a rickshaw. These humiliations cheered him up again: he wanted to marry Joy, and then went to beg Mr. Cao, the benefactor, to let him pull the cart. Mr. Cao was glad that he came back, but he decided to find happiness first. After some painstaking searching, I learned that Joy couldn't stand the humiliation and had hanged herself. In this way, his spirit suddenly collapsed: he had lost the courage and perseverance that life should have. He began to give up on himself, stealing things, selling friends, getting dirtier and lazier, and finally degenerating into an evil unemployed person.

Camel Xiangzi shows us how a simple rural teenager degenerates step by step under the extrusion of modern urban civilization.