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It can be said that "Lights out" is a miniature picture of rural Vietnam under the French colonial period. The suffocating atmosphere, the stress of the tax season, the cruel face of the ruling class and the poverty of the poor peasants... all are clearly visible under the writer's sharp realistic pen. Ngo Tat To.
After reading the work Turn off the lights, writer Nguyen Tuan made a very correct comment: "With the work Turning off the lights, Ngo Tat To instigated the peasants to rebel". Nguyen Tuan wants to affirm that the law has oppression and struggle; The stronger the oppression, the more intense the struggle. The excerpt The water broke the bank is typical evidence to prove the above opinion.
The context of the story is the tax collection season that takes place every year in the northern countryside before 1945. The French colonial regime has a very barbaric tax, which is a tax on the head. Men 18 years of age and older are required to pay.
The local librarians took advantage of the country's fat, based on it to make unreasonable regulations: the dead still have to pay taxes. Under the yoke of colonialism and feudalism, the peasants had to suffer from a double neck, so their life was very miserable and destitute.
The content of the work "Turn off the lights" revolves around the terrible upheavals that happened to the family of Ms. Dau during the tax collection season. The tax case is in the most critical moment. The superior is about to return to the village to check and urge. Aggressive henchmen stormed into every house to tie, arrest and release tax-deficient people to the family, continuing to shackles and tortures. Ms. Dau had to sell potatoes, dogs, and even her eldest daughter to collect for her husband. The tax part of Mr. Dau has been paid, but the arrogant librarians on the contrary forced to pay the collection rate of his brother who died last year. Therefore, Mr. Dau is still a tax-deficient person. Mr. Dau is sick again after the beating he thought he was going to die last night, if he was tied up again, his life would be difficult to keep. The most important issue for Ms. Dau now is how to protect her husband in a dangerous situation.
In the passage, there are three characters: the ruler, the head of the family, and the Rooster. The ruler character represents professional henchmen, is an effective tool of oppression of the ruling class. To assert his role in the tax collection, he beat people, tied people innocently. In the feudal system of domination, this ruler was just a low-class henchman, but he was fierce, ready to commit crimes without flinching because he was never stopped by anyone. He prides himself on being the representative of the state and in the name of the country's permission to do cruel things to the poor. Therefore, it can be said that the nameless ruler was the most complete embodiment of the inhuman legal machine in the village at that time.
The name of the leader's family is also rude and heartless. He laughed sarcastically when he saw the Rooster because he was so scared that he rolled down the counter. Then he stepped forward and raised a stick to beat the Rooster. Although only appearing in a short paragraph, the ruler and the ruler's name are prominently portrayed by the author's realistic pen, with high generalization value. Their cruel actions while promoting taxes and uncles pushed the Rooster to the point where she couldn't help but rise up to fight.
At the beginning of the excerpt is the scene where the Rooster takes care of her ailing husband who has been brutally beaten by the villagers in the village for lack of money to pay for her dead brother. The Rooster tried her best to save her husband, but in the end, he still could not escape the persecution and torture. Seeing the deep love of her husband and children, we can only imagine her selfless courage. She ran back and forth, borrowed a handful of rice to cook a pot of thin porridge. Touchingly is the scene where Mrs. Dau scooped up porridge into old, chipped bowls and fanned the porridge to cool it quickly and then graciously invited: Teacher, please try to sit up and drink some porridge to help your bowels. In the eyes and voice of that poor wife, there was a heartbreaking earnestness.
While Mr. Dau was shaking, holding a bowl of porridge to his mouth, the ruler and family members rushed in with whips, rulers and ropes, shouting at him to pay the collection fee. Terrified, Mr. Dau rolled over and couldn't say a word, leaving only Mrs. Dau to deal with the villains.
Ms. Dau has become the breadwinner of the family in times of dire straits, suffering because of collection and tax. Her husband was beaten and shackled. With one hand, she rowed and ran, and had to sell everything she could sell, including her obedient, filial first daughter whom she loved so deeply to save her husband from prison. She had to sweat and shed a lot of tears so that Mr. Dau was freed in a state that seemed to be just a corpse without a soul. Now, the villains are about to beat him up again. Probably this time, the Rooster will die!
The situation puts her in front of a choice: either to let the henchmen torture her, or to fight back. Faced with their unruly and inhuman attitude, she fought back fiercely. How did the Rooster deal with henchmen to protect her husband?
At first, when they barged in, mocking, threatening, and
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