A Little Incident
According to Amaya in Review Stream, A Little Incident was written by Chinese poet, Lu Xun or also called as Lu Hsun.
This tells a the story of a man's experienced about one incident that he never forgets. The happens during winter. One day the man hired a rickshaw. The puller brought him to the South Gate. On the way there, an old woman entangled herself unto a rickshaw. The puller asked who it was, but the man insist that it was nothing because he saw what happen and think that no one was hurt. The puller stopped and went to the old lady to check if she is okay. The old lady said that she is hurt, with this the man insisted that the old lady was just pretending. The puller held the old lady's arm and walk her to the police station. Then an officer approach the man and said that the puller cannot take him to the South Gate anymore. The man gave a copper coins to the officer and told him to give it to the man. With what happened the man starts to question what he had done earlier.
The theme in the story is guilt and respect. The main characters are the man, the puller, the old lady, and the officer. The setting happens somewhere in the town of China. The conflict was man versus himself because the main persona in the story was questioning himself of what he just did.
In the story I learned that we should respect our elders. I also learned that we should be careful or be observant on what is happening around us and be careful of the accidents that are possible to happen. I also learned that we should take good care of our old people because they are fragile, one little accident can actually harm them sometimes.
I can relate this story to what happen to my grandmother before, she got into a little accident that cause her to be bedridden. By that little accident that happen to her, I learned that sometimes a little accident can actually do harm people, especially the elderly people.
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