What Memories Does Lu Xun Describe From His Childhood?

Name Instructor Course Date Lu Xun What memories does Lu Xun describe from his childhood? Xun mostly visited a pawnbroker’s and medicine shop and bought medicine for his father from the shop, but the doctor mostly prescribed unusual drugs. What was Lu Xun’s initial field of study and what events inspired him to turn to literature instead? Xundescribes his desire to study medicine in China and he believed his father been wrongly treated, but when in Tokyo, Japan he later felt that medical science was not important as he believed when he watched a film on Russo-Japanese War. Xun realized that China was weak and backward country and medicine was unlikely to influence the spirit unlike literature. How does Lu Xun describe the "iron house," and how do you interpret this metaphor?Xun describes the“iron house” as place without windows and is absolutely indestructible where many people die of suffocation and those who are awake cannot destroy the place. This reflects oppression in traditional China, where the story is set in a place where there is little contact with the outside world. Questions on “Diary of a Madman” (pdf online)Who introduces the "Diary of a Madman," and how do you interpret the introduction of the diary by a first-person narrator different from the actual writer of the diary? The narrator who is friends with two brothers introduces the story and he learns that the younger brother had been mentally ill, but had gotten better over time and the diary represents the brother’s story. The first-person narrator serves the writer’s purpose, but also expresses individualism where the readers understand the viewpoint of the narrator and...