A Heroic Analysis Of Red Sorghum By Mo Yan

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In this expert from Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, the war between the dogs and the humans have resurfaced. Lightning from a storm struck the grave of Communists, Nationalists, commoners, Japanese and puppet troops that were once buried there decades ago. The lightning split open the grave spreading the bones up to ten yards away from the grave. The narrator goes to see the opened grave that is in the same spot that his mother, father and Granddad had once fought.
At the start of line 24 the significance of the expert is present, stating how mother and father and granddad fought a “heroic battle”. The diction of the first paragraph creates an anxious tone making the reader wonder what’s going to happen and how people are going to react.
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