Mo Yan's Muses of Hunger and Loneliness Literature Essay

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Hunger and Loneliness: My Muses.
Mo Yan recalls his childhood as one that was filled with anger and harshness. Anger from the government's policies (inception of experimental Communism) that affected systems of the societies and harshness because of the conspicuous mention of hunger. He narrates keenly how they retired to hunting for leaves and upon dire dry spell they turned to barks and even twigs and sticks. This is clearly what made it normal in the spring of 1961 for them indulging in dining on coal delivered to their school which saw even the elders lured into joining them.
The dream of Mo Yan to become a writer superficially surges from the desire to have three main course meals of delicious pork dumplings (jiaozi). This was narrated to him by the college dropout neighbor about writers' achieved lifestyle. The innate habit of being talkative and ransom-like vendetta to starvation, he dreads ever going back to is his deeper intuitive drive.
Unlike the Western writers who tend to duplicate Chinese literature, Mo Yan tries to show how he had a true connection between his own experiences and those of the society that raised him. The style of Mo Yan is a reflection of personal perils that does not align itself better with the rewards from royalties. Thus points to spiritual afflictions which are beyond mere satisfaction by food. Spiritual pain unlike physical pain which focuses on sympathy for humanity and inequality is every writer's quest to acknowledge the voice of distress.
Mo Yan depicts the reason for his study of West...