Mo Yan's Frog, with a sensitive theme as the background, created a typical image of a rural obstetrician and an aunt of a family planning cadre. After the founding of New China, my aunt became an active practitioner of the new midwifery law. She delivered nearly ten thousand people in her life. In his later years, he was called Guanyin Bodhisattva and Living Bodhisattva by the people of Gaomi Northeast Township. But she is also a cadre in the family planning front. She is very selfless. In order to work, she tore down houses and chased pregnant women, and many pregnant women and babies died at her hands.
Aunt lived in a cave in her later years and expressed her remorse with clay dolls, which is Mo Yan's call for people's self-responsibility and self-confession consciousness in the historical field.
The Value of Mo Yan s Frog;
The important value of Frog lies in that, on the one hand, Mo Yan admits the rationality of the historical process of modernization and the helplessness and naivety of individuals in this process; On the other hand, Mo Yan feels that individuals cannot excuse their guilt by the rationality of the historical process, so repentance and atonement are necessary.