In To Live, by Yu Hua, the author emphasizes the important role of the family in communist China in the recurring imagery of the lamb. In the story Fugui learns how to cope with the struggles that come from living with your family. There is disease and death that guide him to become a better and stronger person. Youqing is another person that has to deal with these struggles because like Fugui he has to deal with the hardships that come from the slaughtering of his lambs that were taken from him unfairly.
Fugui is the father figure in the Xu family and he faces many struggles that guide him to become a better person in the end. At the beginning of the story Fugui was a terrible person, constantly gambling and spending nights with prostitutes.
Fugui is the father figure in the Xu family and he faces many struggles that guide him to become a better person in the end. At the beginning of the story Fugui was a terrible person, constantly gambling and spending nights with prostitutes.