Frogs Moyan was the first Chinese to win NobelPrize for literature.Frogs, one of his most famous work, was based on the life experience of Gugu (which means aunt in Chinese), who has devoted herself as a gynecologist for over 50 years.With vivid details and reflection, the book shows the up and downs of New China’s specific fertility history in the past 60 years, and exposes the chaotic phenomenon on fertility in China at the moment.It tells of the difficulties and complexity the country faced during the proce of the implementation of the national family planning policy in order to control the sharp growth of population.The heroine of the novel was called Gugu.She lived in a complicated era, when the food was extremely scarce.The narrator of the novel, Wan Xiaopao, had once eaten coal because of the unbearable starvation.People in a great portion of countryside in China still used a backward way to deliver a child, leading to the high mortality of pregnant woman.After graduating from hygiene school, Gugu persuaded the villagers to accept the new way to deliver a child by using her excellent skills.Those old midwives only cared about their personal gain rather than saving the lives of pregnant women.Gugu was very indignant about it.She blamed those old midwives for their irresponsible behaviors.Then we can see that Gugu was really fearle and straightforward.In 1965, she was aigned to community hospital as a gynecologist.She became the leader and executor of one-child policy.No sooner than Gugu started spreading the policy, villagers repelled her violently and blamed her with dirty words.They believed baby was their only hope andand “the more children, the better” is a rigid belief at that time.However, All these obstacles did not stop Gugu’s certain steps to lower the birth rates.By using fierce measures, many villagers did vasectomy unwillingly.Investigating the socialist enemies was a tough thing, for it would make Gugu a hated enemy to villagers.
Gen Xiulian, a woman who had already had two children, was going to have a third baby.When Gugu came to her house, she used every method to beg Gugu, but Gugu insisted in taking her to perform operation, without any mercy.Being driven into a corner, Gen Xiulian jumped into the river.Everyone on the spot was shocked, for it happened in a flash.Gugu immediately jumped onto a boat, yelling loudly to ask someone to help her drive the boat.Gen Xiulian was found under a peel of watermelon.Gugu burst into laughter, because Gen Xiulian used the way that was used to deal with Japanese.Gugu did not catch her at once.She followed her slowly, using loud-speaker to broadcast the instruction of one-child policy.Gugu standing on the board spoke loudly to Gen Xiulian: “There is no way for you but go with us.Even though you can swim to East Sea, we will still follow you.”All of a sudden, Gen Xiulian cried out.Her actions became more and more slowly, and her arms couldn’t help her go forward.Gugu was greeted by a smell of blood.Ultimately, Gugu used everything to save Gen Xiulian’s life but it was too late.At the night before Gugu’s retirement, her colleagues gave her a feast in a restaurant.She was drunk.On the way home, she walked into a pool of mud, where frogs were brawling loudly.Noise came from all directions.Like a raging river, the noise took the whole occupation of wide farmland. It sound like babies’ crying.Gugu felt a gust of cold wind climbed onto her shoulder.A bad feeling struck her，so she escaped quickly.Although it seems like Gugu’s imagination, it revealed the real inside world of Gugu.After the first time reading, a complex feeling rose from the bottom of my heart.I couldn’t figure out what it really was.It confused me ,so I decided to read it again.During the second time reading, I paid my attention to the details in the story, such as Gugu’s actions, feelings and words.I imagined I was on the spot, and I tried to understand their feelings hiden in the words.Gradully, I knew what I felt at the first time.They were happine for the baby birth, anger to the policy, pity for the abortion, sadne for the past of our country, and a sense of responsibility for the future.I realized Gugu was a tragedy person.She was torn between the desire to accomplish the tasks from party and country, and the desire to save children.She delivered over ten thousand babies.Her hand was sacred but also full of blood at the same time.
Using the literary device of ridicule and sarcasm, Mo Yan criticizes the distorted history as well as deprivation and political hypocrisy.He reveals the murkiest side of human existence.He shows us a world without truth, common sense or compaion, a world where people are reckle, helple and absurd.Mo Yan defends small individuals like Gugu against all injustices.Thanks him for telling us the history we may never know.Only we realized the pain that our nation went through, we can keep moving on and avoid those things happening again.
