Analysis of the work “The forest of soap nuns” number 5
“Forest of Sorrows” is one of the works that leave the most personal impression in the writing style of writer Nguyen Trung Thanh. Besides, “The Woods of the Serpent” is also a work with an important position in the literature of the anti-American resistance war. It was a strong and eloquent post that encouraged everyone to stand up and fight for independence.
The title “forest of snakes” opens the central image of the work. It is a typical tree species of the Central Highlands. Thereby, contributing to creating a majestic and magnificent picture of nature, creating a large art space. It evokes the flavor of the Central Highlands, the vitality and the breath of the Central Highlands. Thereby illuminating the ideas and themes of the work.
The barn forest is the opening image as well as the image throughout and the end of the work. Therefore, it can be said that this is the image that covers the short story and plays an important role in expressing the ideas and themes of the work. It comes back as an obsession for the writer as well as the reader. This is an image that inspires emotions for the writer to create and reflect on, and an aesthetic circuit to guide the writer to describe and tell stories in accordance with his confidants.
The barnacle tree appears with the natural beauty associated with the years of resistance against the US to save the country of the people of the Central Highlands. Nguyen Trung Thanh uses short sentences to create a strong impression on the reader’s historical context and era. Thereby, the writer expresses the value of strongly denouncing the cruel and barbaric nature of the enemy as well as the extremely destructive power of bombs and wars.
Most authors directly point out that bombs and bullets not only destroy people but also destroy nature. In order for the forest to appear, the barnacle tree appears in special circuTaxances to help the writer highlight the resilient and intense vitality. Nature here is not only a beautiful painting but also a victim, a witness to history and at the same time participates in the epic of the village and the community.
Along with the picture of nature where the barnacle tree represents the natural beauty of the Central Highlands, the writer also built the collective image of Xo Man villagers over many generations. In which, the old man who entered the work was a village elder, the most beautiful crystallization of the good qualities and aspirations of the whole community. He is also the highest commander who is the spiritual fulcrum as well as the soul of the struggle to liberate the homeland.
Mr. Met is the spokesman for a simple but firm saying that exalts the life and fighting experiences of the villagers of Xo Man. The instrument appears as a life statue symbolizing the history, roots, enduring vitality along with the indomitable tradition of the whole village. Mr. Met was built with an epic and idealized style, making the reader think of the chiefs in the ancient epic.
If Madam Met represents the previous generation with fighting spirit and brave patriotism, then Tnú is the next generation. Through the words of Nguyen Trung Thanh Tnu, an orphaned father and mother, grew up in the care of the villagers of Xo Man. In Tnú is the grit and daring of people born and raised in the mountains. There is something that is both strong, modern, and indomitable, not discouraged or discouraged by difficulties, dangers or threats.
In Tnú, there is also agility, intelligence and bravery and absolute loyalty to the revolution. Especially, the image of Tnú’s hand being burned leaves a strong impression on readers. Thereby, highlighting Tnú’s personality, fate and life. The character T, who comes into the work, is the main character, has a close relationship with the villagers of Xo Man.
The personality, fate and life of Tnú represent the fate and life of the people of the Central Highlands. He is an excellent successor, best promoting the revolutionary spirit of his homeland.

Analysis of the work “The forest of soap nuns” number 4
Nguyen Trung Thanh also has another pseudonym, writer Nguyen Ngoc, he wrote the short story “Forest Sa Nu” after days of searching for reality in the wild mountains of the Central Highlands. The short story “Sna nu forest” aims to praise the people of the Central Highlands who are resilient, loyal and indomitable in the resistance war against the invaders.
“The forest of snakes” is a short story containing a great deal of human meaning, affection and great patriotism of the people in the mountains. The main work is an epic epic poem written about the people of the Central Highlands who are brave, wise, patriotic more than love their own lives. Thanks to that indomitable spirit, our whole people won in the resistance war against two extremely powerful invaders.
Throughout the entire work is the image of the barn forest. A vast green forest of snakes, stretching as far as the eye can see. A forest of snakes where no tree is uninjured, because every time the enemy wants to hit the people here, they drop a lot of bombs and bullets on the forest. So it is very understandable that the barnacle is injured. But no matter how much the wound or the wound causes the sap to flow a lot, the pine trees will never die.
Over time, the wound will only form a scar. There is no tree that is as eager to live as the pine tree. If a large tree falls down, there are several saplings that grow under its feet. Because of that, the forests of the snake gourd are forever green.
The image of those bamboo trees is the symbol of the people of the Central Highlands, who are always loyal to the Party, the revolution and Uncle Ho. The people of the Central Highlands, from the elderly like Me, to Tnú, Mai, Dit and little Heng, all have patriotic spirit. The people of the village of Strá, no matter how big or small, are always devoted to their homeland with a deep hatred of the enemy.
The central main character parallel to the image of the barnacle tree is Mr. Tnú, a hero. A steadfast revolutionary soldier, despite going through many hardships and difficulties in his personal feelings, Tnú became more resilient and deeply hated the enemy. Tnú was originally a boy who suffered many misfortunes in the life of his parents who died in a sweeping battle of the enemy.
Tnú was raised by Mr. Met and the people of Xo Man village. From an early age, Tnu showed his heroic and resilient spirit, he worked as a liaison to deliver letters to revolutionary soldiers, in order to avoid the pursuit of enemies. easy trail. Many difficult tasks have been completed by Tnú. Once, Tnú was caught by the enemy to torture him, but he still stubbornly refused to confess, but silently swallowed the letter into his stomach to ensure the safety of the letter.
When they were young, Tnu and Mai were childhood friends, both were taught literacy by Quyet’s cadres. Mai is smart to learn where to remember, and Tnú keeps forgetting, so he hit his hand with a stone to remind him to remember. When Mai and Tnú grew up, they got married and had another baby as a result of their love. But Mai was brutally tortured by henchmen, causing Mai and the baby in her belly to die.
Painfully hugs the body of his wife and children. He was brutally tortured by them and burned ten fingers, but Tnú did not feel any pain, the pain in his heart was greater than the physical pain. Tu is like a mature bamboo tree that was bombarded and wounded by the enemy, but always persevered and never fell.
The short story “The Forest of Sorrows” by writer Nguyen Trung Thanh is an extremely successful short story written by the writer on the topic of the Central Highlands people in the resistance war against the Americans to save our country. The image of the stilt trees is like the brave and indomitable Xo Man villagers.

Analysis of the work “The forest of soap nuns” number 9
In the country’s literature, the prose genre is known as one of the genres that have achieved many remarkable achievements. In the works, it is impossible not to mention Nguyen Trung Thanh’s “forest of sa nu”, an article epic epics of the Central Highlands. In which the author successfully depicts the image of the barnacle tree, making us feel heroic, the struggle of the people of the Central Highlands.
Author Nguyen Trung Thanh is a writer from the Central Highlands, he was also active in the southern battlefield during the anti-American era for national salvation. The short story “The forest of sa nu” is a typical work of the work, the image of “the sa nu tree” is the central image in the essay. It is known as a common tree species in the mountains and forests of the Central Highlands, as tough, resilient and indomitable as the people of the Central Highlands, living in a harsh environment but it is still persistent.
The image of the barnacle tree is likened to the people of the Central Highlands who refuse to surrender to fate, to the weather, not to surrender, always looking forward to protect their independence and freedom, in this period. During the resistance war against the US, the bamboo trees stretched out to protect the villagers from storms and hunts, helping revolutionary cadres to implement their strategies.
The sa nu tree is associated with the daily life of the people of the Central Highlands, the maturity of generations of Xo Man villagers, that is from Tnu, Mai, Mrs. From generation to generation, each generation tries to grow up, taking turns to protect their home in the Central Highlands, but the barnacle tree is still attached, through many bombs and bullets with the villagers here.
It can be said that the “tree tree” is the soul of the Central Highlands, it has grown up, deeply rooted in every human subconscious in the Central Highlands, when it comes to this tree, it seems that we feel the magnanimity, the tree grows. straight, stretching, tall, towards the light as well as the people of Soman towards happiness and national independence.
In the history of the resistance war of the villagers of the Central Highlands, the barnacle tree is a friend to fight, standing side by side with the people, it is a symbol of the spirit and will of the people. s combat gun.
The author has described the metaphorical savanna tree, depicted the tree with anthropomorphic art as the people of the Central Highlands, expressed the sacrifice, and also described the scene of brutal oppression and exploitation that the people of the Central Highlands had suffered. Colonization for the villagers of Xo Man, the tree was burned down, it was also the loss and pain that kept piling up, causing the misery to continue. Image of Mai and Tnu being tortured, but they still endured and struggled until the last minute.
The relationship between people and the tree has a very strong bond, and no one can separate it, the tree has been a friend since childhood, going through many ups and downs in history. Villagers, they are a solid protective barrier, even though burned, they still try to stand up like the people of Soman, although they can’t speak, can’t express their emotions, but the rafters make us feel more. faith, the strength to fight to the end.
Each generation fell, the next generation stood up one after another, exerting all their fighting strength, just as the old spar died on that tree, there was a young pine tree growing up to stretch its shoulders to protect the people. Soman people, from the generation of old people like Mt, then Tnu and finally little Heng, in them all have a burning desire for a beautiful future ahead waiting for them.
In the work of the jungle, the image of Tnu and the tree is certainly likened to two parallel images, having many similarities, supporting each other, highlighting each other’s will and fighting spirit. a large, sturdy beam, spreading his shoulders to cover the villagers as well as Tnú a healthy young man, his cadres, and the village elders fought to drive the American invaders out of the village, so that the people could have a better life peaceful, no longer living in fear, sacrificing himself for independence and freedom.
The desire for peace, peace for the whole country, the wishes that people always yearn for every day, with their immense love for the Central Highlands, the author’s sentence describes the image through the image of the beam tree. nu, adding to the artistic value, the resilience of each person of Xo Man, and the subtle observation, Nguyen Trung Thanh has made the reader feel the loss and pain that the people of this place have experienced. This is suffered through the image of the barnacle tree, having a sympathetic and bitter heart for the people of the Central Highlands.

Analysis of the work “The forest of soap nuns” number 3
Nguyen Trung Thanh, one of the typical faces of Vietnamese literature. He composed in many fields, short stories, autographs, etc., there are excellent works in every field. Referring to him, it is impossible not to mention the story of the Jungle, a work with epic tendencies and romantic inspiration, imprinted with his style.
At the beginning of the work, as well as throughout this story, is the image of a snake fish. But the savanna hills, one after another to the horizon, open up a vast, endless space full of life, vastness, and strength. With the image of the barnacle tree, the author has recreated the unique and interesting beauty of the Central Highlands. At the same time, the tree is also a symbol for the people of Xo Man village.
The tree is closely associated with the villagers, in daily life to even important events. The enemy tortured Tnú fiercely, by impregnating his ten fingers with oil, they became an object used by the enemy to destroy the people of Soman.
But the tree also shows the change of the villagers of Xo Man, from not daring to take up arms to daring to take up arms and stand up against the enemy. And in the night when Tnú returned to visit the village: the snake torch led the people of Xo Man village all over the street to gather at Ung’s house, they held their fire to throw into the fire in the middle of the house, everyone gathered around the fire. old enough to listen to Ma’s story about Mr. Tnú’s life.
Not only that, the image of the barnacle tree is also a symbol of the fate and quality of the people of the Central Highlands. The image of the whole forest is full of injuries, the enemy shoots cannons twice a day, the snake forest stretches its big chest to protect the village, thousands of sa nu trees, not a single tree is not injured.
There are trees that cut off half of their body, rushing like a storm, where the plastic wound oozes out… blackened and bruised, forming a big blood clot. There are saplings that are just as big as a person’s chest, but they are cut in half by cannonballs, etc. The image of the injured barnacle tree is also a symbol of the pain and loss that the villagers of Xo Man have to endure. The villagers sacrificed their lives to hide the cadres, suffered many sacrifices, but still unitedly defended the revolution.
And the barnacle forest is the most beautiful symbol of the good qualities of the villagers of Xo Man. There is no tree species that craves light like the sa nu, they have a strong rise, like the latent vitality of the people of the Central Highlands. Not only that, they also have undying vitality, nothing can destroy. Constructing the image of a barnacle tree, the author indirectly speaks to the heroic qualities and beautiful character of the people of the Central Highlands, and also reveals the door to the world and discovers the people here.
The most prominent character in the work is the character Tnú, who fully converges the beauty of the people of the Central Highlands. Right from a young age, Tnú proved to be a very brave boy, he kept cadres hidden, ready to hit his head with a stone when he could not learn. When on duty, he did not walk on a flat road, but found forest roads, waded through strong waterfalls, so that the enemy could not catch him.
As an adult, as a revolutionary soldier, his grit and courage were revealed even more clearly. Arrested, Tnú escaped from prison, when his wife and children were threatened with their lives, Tnú was ready to rush in to save his wife and children. And despite being tortured by the enemy, Tnú did not beg, but endured the pain to the end.
Not only that, Tnú was also a highly disciplined person, absolutely loyal to the revolution. Since he was a child, Tnú had love and faith in the revolution, he harbored cadres and carried in him the desire to become a revolutionary soldier to liberate the village. Tnú’s discipline is also clearly shown in obeying the orders of his superiors. On leave, he only returned to the village for one night, then left immediately, even though he still had a lot of attachments in his heart.
But inside a person with such an iron appearance, with such high discipline, is a person with a passionate loving heart. That love is shown first of all to the village, Tnú grew up in the care of the villagers, so Tnú considers everyone as his family. That’s why, even though the vacation was very short, Tnú was still eager to return, excited to see everyone again and be in the loving arms of the people from the same village.
That loving heart is shown even more clearly with his wife and children. When Mai gave birth, he couldn’t go to buy cloth. He tore his clothes in half to make a blanket for Mai to carry the baby. And in a moment, seeing his wife and children being brutally tortured, unable to rush in to save, Tnú was in excruciating pain. But in the end, his love for his wife and children surpassed everything, and his emotions overwhelm reason. Tnú rushed to save his wife and children, even though he knew for sure that he might have to make sacrifices. Because he understood how much his wife and children needed him at that time.
The more passionate the love, the deeper the hatred for the enemy. Tnú has three great passions: the first one is with himself, after being tortured by the enemy, each finger is amputated, the hatred for the enemy in Tnú becomes even more profound.
But his own hatred is still not equal to the hatred of his family, his wife and children – the people he loves most have been brutally tortured and died by the enemy, that will haunt him for the rest of his life. making hatred for the enemy even more boiling. And finally, the common feud with the villagers, the villagers were brutally slaughtered. From that mass of public and private enemies, the fighting spirit was awakened in Tnú.
The image of the character Tnú is typical for the revolutionary struggle path of the people of the Central Highlands, clarifying the truth of the times: “they have held guns, we must hold spears” – actively fighting the enemy, wanting to win. The only way to independence is armed struggle. Not only that, but Tnú also represents the beauty and strength of the people of the Central Highlands during the years of the resistance war against the Americans to save the country.
In addition to the image of the character Tnú, the work also stands out with the heroic collective of Xo Man village. Each person is a soldier, carrying within himself his belief in the Party, the revolution and loyalty to the revolution. But besides those common features, each has its own beauty. First of all, the character of Mat, he is the embodiment of the beauty of the mountains and the people of the Central Highlands.
Uncle Met was the direct commander of the resistance war of Xo Man villagers, he led the people to build Xo Man village into a resistance village to fight the American invaders for a long time. Not only that, he also taught patriotism in the next generation, passing on his blood and determination to kill the enemy to the younger generation. Dit and Heng can be considered as the typical young generation of Xo Man village. Dit brings in his thorns, determination, will be the generation to follow in the footsteps of his excellent father.
The work is boldly epic in the Central Highlands. The art of building a unique image, each character has its own destiny and personality, but they are all shining with patriotism and courage. Attractive narrative style: the author uses a nested story structure in the story: the life story of Mr. Tnú and the story of Xo Man villagers. The narrative language is bold in the Central Highlands, bringing its own imprint to the work.
The work is an ode to the majestic and heroic natural beauty of the Central Highlands. Not only that, the forest is also a song praising the beauty of the heroic and indomitable qualities of the people of the Central Highlands. Combined with language and compelling storytelling have contributed to the success of the work.

Analysis of the work “The forest of soap nuns” number 7
When it comes to the lives and struggles of the people of the South, readers cannot mention the writer Nguyen Thi with the works: Mother absent, Mother holding gun, Children in the family. When it comes to the life of the people of the Northwest, readers cannot help but mention the writer To Hoai and the A Phu couple. When it comes to the Central Highlands people, we must remember the writer Nguyen Trung Thanh with the country standing up and the forest of soap nuns.
Xa Nu forest is the story of the revolutionary life of Tnú and the whole village of Xo Man. The story is called the forest of snakes because this is a typical tree of this country. The immense green pine forests stretching as far as the eye can see again and again in the work. The trees are described by the author from specific details to the whole scene. It shows up with full personality and strong will.
Enemy bullets can’t cut down a rafter, just as war can’t destroy it. The trees still grow green, this tree falls, new trees grow again, the sap flows like hot blood in a body boiling with national spirit. The snake forest is described in detail, full of epic appearance, and highlights the character and fate of the children of Xo Man village.
Those people are Tnú, Mai, Old Met, Dit and Baby Heng. Each character has its own personality qualities, but they are all brave, resilient people with boundless love for the country and the revolution. Tnú is a brave, stubborn young man, possessing the qualities of a revolutionary hero. He was enlightened to the revolution from a young age, raised by affection for the revolution and hatred for the enemy.
From a young age, Tnú was a brave communication boy who kept cadres hidden in the forest, always aggressively doing dangerous tasks, when being washed, arrested and tortured, he did not confess a little, on the contrary, he was bluntly redundant. I admit, the revolution was deeply ingrained in my person.
Tnú is also a family-loving person who loves the village deeply. Witnessing his wife and children being murdered and tortured, he rushed to the enemy empty-handed, his eyes filled with hatred, he endured torture, his hands burned by the enemy, but he refused to submit. He is also attached to the people in the village, always coming back to visit everyone when he is on leave.
Mai and Dit are girls who are equally courageous as Tnú. They were like Chien in Children in the family, soon enlightened to the revolution and followed the revolution. Although they are weak girls, their spiritual truth and actions are more courageous than anyone else’s.
Mai and Tnu raised cadres in the forest, were tortured and murdered by the enemy but decided not to say a word, Dit, even though he was young, was stubborn, standing in the enemy’s bullets but still remained silent, his eyes were brazen and did not speak. A sentence. They are the generation of women whose “enemies even come to women’s houses” are praiseworthy of the nation.
Mr. Met is the oldest and most experienced person, he sees through everything with the eyes of a seasoned person, a person who has gone through many ups and downs and has become stable and stable. He is the leading flag, the leader of the whole village. He stood up and called for the villagers to come forward when he saw Tnú being tortured, he led the people in the village to fight, he told stories to the next generations of the village to hear stories about Tnú’s life. Mr. Met was the one who kept the revolutionary fire for different generations of Xo Man village.
Each person in the forest has different personalities and fates, but they are extremely united, love each other very much and share a common feud with the American enemy.
The jungle is considered to be the story of a lifetime told in one night. That life is the life of Tnú, a person who from birth until he grew up devoted himself to the revolution, he was the representative of the villagers, the continuation and full promotion of the bravery of the world. previous generations and set a shining example for future generations. Tnú people represent generations of resilient heroes in the resistance war.
His story is representative of a young generation that is full of ambition, dreams and vitality, daring to do their best for the ideal of the revolution. That is also the epic meaning that the characters, or the jungle itself, bring.

Analysis of the work “The forest of soap nuns” number 10
Every writer, seems to have a writing countryside. For Nguyen Ngoc, the Central Highlands is majestic and mountainous. The indomitable and resilient Central Highlands with outspoken and loyal people following the revolution is the land where he is attached and concerned in his compositions. During the resistance war against the French, he stayed in the Central Highlands to write the novel The Country Rises.
In the years of fighting the US, Nguyen Ngoc returned to this arduous area from the early sixties, right after the days of co-starting the revolution in the South. The heroic struggle of the people of the Central Highlands inspired him to write the short story “Rung Xa Nu”, an excellent short story of anti-American literature.
Forest of Xu nu is just a short story but its realistic capacity is huge. It is an epic about the heroic struggle of the Central Highlands people with the growth of a new revolutionary generation, young, enthusiastic, wise and resilient.
The work opens with the image of a barn forest around Xo Man village of the Stra people. A forest of salamanders defied bombs and bullets, overcoming the brutal destruction of the enemy to receive the sunlight to maintain their life, the forest of snakes was full of life even though the enemy’s cannon “successful”. routine, twice a day, either in the early morning and late afternoon, or standing in the dark, or in the middle of the night and the rooster crowed.”
“In the whole forest of thousands of trees, there is not a single tree that is not injured. Some trees were cut off half of their trunks. In the wounds, the sap oozes out, overflows, smells sweet and glitters in the hot summer sun, and then gradually bruises. and thickened into large blood clots. There were saplings that were just as big as the chest, but were cut in half by cannons, and after five or ten days the tree died.
But there are also trees that are taller than a person’s head, with luxuriant branches and leaves like birds with enough feathers and feathers. Cannons can’t kill them, their wounds heal like a strong body. They reach out very quickly, replacing fallen plows. It’s like two or three years ago, the snake forest stretched out its big chest, protecting the village … “.
Nguyen Ngoc describes the jungle in a very poetic, refined and refined language in a language that is both descriptive and evocative, opening up rich associations for readers. The image of the sa nu forest here is both a real image of a forest “hungry for sunlight”, as well as a symbolic image of the people of the Central Highlands suffering, indomitable and resilient in the days of co-operation against the enemy. America.
The specification style combined with the method of legalization has maximized its effectiveness. The snake forest appears as a loyal friend to the villagers of Xo Man, like the beautiful people of the village. And it can be said that the sa nu forest is a symbol of the immortal vitality of the people of the Central Highlands and of the people of Vietnam.
Truely recreating the resilient struggle of the people of the Central Highlands during the days of fighting against the US, the writer focuses on depicting the growth of a succeeding generation, promoting the heroic tradition of his father and through which the writer also reflects the maturity of the people of the Central Highlands in the one-on-one struggle against the new enemy, the US imperialists. Typical for that generation of young people are Tnú and Dit. Their growth is associated with the struggle of the people of Straw village in Xo Man village.
Tun lost his parents at a young age, was cared for and raised by the villagers. The boy Tnu came to the revolution right from the most arduous and fierce days when My Diem was terrorizing the revolution every day and night. It was Tnú who witnessed the pain of the villagers. The invaders “hanged Mr. Xut on the fig tree at the head of the village, killed Mrs. Nhan, cut off her hair and hung her gun”, just because they were brave people who dared to hide the revolutionary cadres.
On the day Tu went to the forest to raise cadres, received knowledge and reason to live in life through the guidance of Mr. Quyet. Bravery, cleverness, and alertness are Tnú’s good qualities, “it contacted Mr. Quyet from the commune to the district. It never goes on the trail. The enemy surrounded the roads, he climbed a tall tree, looked around, then cut the forest and went, and escaped all the encirclement. Crossing the river, it does not like to wade in the calm water, but chooses the strong waterfall to swim across, cross the water, ride on the ice waterfall like an orca.”
Once in contact, Tnú was ambushed and captured by the enemy, they took him back to the village, tortured him in every way, his back was slashed and slashed, but Tnú still did not declare it, just calmly pointed his elbow and stomach to answer the enemy’s question: Communists are here.” It’s not an answer, but a brave challenge! With that challenge, Tnú had to pay the price of three years in prison.
Returning from Kon Tum prison, Tnú is a young man, more mature in personality. He clearly understood his duty when he received Quyet’s last words. He became the leader of the fight of the villagers of Xo Man. He immediately carried out Mr. Quyet’s instructions to “prepare spears, spears, spears, axes, arrows, slingshots…” preparing everything needed for the upcoming battle, and happiness came to him in those days.
Mai, the girlfriend he went with him to contact became his life partner. Another challenge came to Tnú: the enemies at the Dac Ha fortress went down to Xo Man village to arrest him, his wife and children fell into their hands. Unable to bear the sight of the enemy torturing his wife and children. I had to go out and confront them. And in this confrontation, his tenacious qualities shine brighter than ever. The enemy captured Tnú, they burned ten of his fingers, “Ten fingers have become ten torches”, biting his lips tightly, without a sound, Tnú glared angrily at the enemy.
It can be said that Tnú is the image of the painful and indomitable Central Highlands. The enemy’s brutality had reached its peak and the people could not bear to live under that brutal yoke. Therefore, when the angry scream of Tnú sounded, the scream was like a signal to summon the villagers to take up arms, the whole village of Xo Man stood up. “The sound of killing”, the sound of footsteps pounding the house. The sound of the soldiers screaming…
The revolt of the villagers saved Tnú and then he went to liberate the army to liberate the people, liberate the country with a deeper judgment. This can be seen clearly from Tnú’s confiding to the villagers after “three years of going to the army”. He told me that he killed Duc, the commander of the enemy station in Dak Ha, who had killed his wife and children, who had caused pain to the village of Xo Man, and according to him, every enemy “is also Duc”.
Obviously, for the Tnú liberation soldier, the common enemy of the Central Highlands and the country is also the enmity of his family and his homeland. It is a deep awareness, the awareness that Tnú draws from his own pain, the country’s villages and the fight of his homeland.
In the same generation of Tnú, there was also Dit, the secretary of the commune cell and the communal politician of Xo Man village. Three years ago, the day Tnú died. Dit “was still a little girl with no clothes to wear, a cold night without sleep …” However, when Tnú returned, she was in charge of the most important jobs of Xo Man village. Dit’s strangeness is not a coincidence but a process of training to overcome challenges at a young age.
Dit is a smart kid, very brave. That time, Dit was captured by the enemy, “They let her stand in the middle of the yard, loaded the bullets, and then slowly fired each bullet, didn’t hit, the bullets just grazed her ears, scorched her hair, and plowed the ground around Dit’s two small feet. . Her dress was torn in pieces. It cried out, but then on the tenth pill, it wiped away the tears, and from then on it was silent. It stood quietly among the soldiers, with each bullet exploding, its slender body twitched, but its eyes still looked at the enemy with a strange calmness.
Not only brave, Dit is also a strong girl. Witnessing the painful death of Ms. Mai, Dit “tumbled and didn’t say anything, his eyes were dry while everyone, including the old man, cried”. Just like that, Dit grew up with the struggle of Xo Man village. Becoming the leader of the village’s fight, Dit also proved to be a brave and persuasive person. Seeing Tnú again, Dit couldn’t help but be touched, looking at him with “open, calm, transparent eyes”.
However, she did not forget her responsibility when she asked “do you have a paper?”, when she stated emphatically “without paper, it is not possible, the committee must arrest her” and after looking at Tnu’s paper, she said again. “Why did you come back for one night only?” That’s how Dit people are, courageous, firm, no less devoted to the homeland, so that the outside seems to be only cold and calm.
Tnú and Dit represent the youth generation of Xo Man village, from their hatred to the national struggle and in that fight, they grew up. Their growth is rooted in the fact that, on the one hand, they have overcome great challenges on their own, and on the other hand, are due to the revolutionary guidance of their fathers. In particular, the maturity of Tnú and Dit is described by Nguyen Ngoc in relation to the heroic media of the Strá.
Mr. Met is the representative of the previous revolutionary generation of Xo Man village. He is the living history, the spiritual support of the villagers. Although he is old, “he is still scowling like before… his chest is like a big rafter… his voice is still loud and loud in his chest”, still leading the village’s fight day and night. Perhaps his life has experienced many sufferings and has gained many valuable experiences, so he always reminds his children and grandchildren of the indomitable painful past of his homeland.
Witnessing Mai’s tragic death and Tnu’s helplessness in the face of the brutal and brutal torture of Duc’s gang, Mrs. Met understood even more: For the enemy, “there are only two empty hands, only empty hands. ” it is impossible to confront them, must take up arms! This lesson, he wants to pass on to future generations: “Listen well, children, understand, remember, take note. I’m dead, you’re still alive, you have to tell your children and grandchildren. They hold guns, we send spears.” The old man’s words resounded in the flickering fire of the eagle’s house.
Building the character of Mr. Mat as a legendary character, crystallizing many good qualities of the people of the Central Highlands, does Nguyen Ngoc want to affirm the role of the previous generation in the younger generation? Mr. Met is both the person who connects the traditional generation with the history of his homeland, as well as the one who leads the youth generation in the current fight. It is because there is a generation of his fathers like Mr. Met that the generation of Tnú, of Dit… have great maturity.
And not only people like Tnú, the class after Tnú like baby Heng, also grew up, grew up with the fierce fighting of Xo Man village. With the character Heng, Nguyen Ngoc only sketched a few lines describing his appearance, but it was enough to create a deep impression on the reader.
Baby Heng’s age, should be, is the age to go to school with pages of books, with fun games, but the country is still at war, he is still young, Heng has the appearance of “a real soldier, wearing a helmet His hat was pulled down to beg by some liberator, put on a long-sleeved shirt, still wearing a loincloth, and a gun slung across his back.” Moreover, Heng belonged to each layer of pitfalls and pits, becoming a liaison like Tnú in the past. What a generosity and trust for a class of people like little Heng! That class is growing up, mature, worthy of his father’s generation.
Reading the forest of soap nuns feels like watching a movie about the fate of a person with many events. The story begins in the present from the time when the soldier who liberated the Tnu army set foot on his homeland “after three years of going to the army” and went back in time to the past. The past keeps appearing in Tnú’s recollection, in the author’s narrative, in his narration.
Fragments of past life and present life, interweaving and enlightening each other to explain the maturity of the Tnu generation, the maturity of Xo Man village in the battle with the enemy, to make it clear. The theme of the story, from personal pain and common pain, Tnú and Xo Man village must take up arms to save themselves, to liberate the nation and the nation’s heroic fight to give birth to a new generation of young people. commensurate with his father.
It is this thought that has dominated the structure of the Snake Forest. The system of events in the story is mainly organized according to the psychological development of the central character’s personality, not in the usual chronological order. Organizing the event in that way, the writer has the condition to focus on describing dramatic situations that highlight the character’s personality, on the other hand, is also consistent with the political meaning of the work.
Twice directly confronting the enemy is Tnú’s two times that clearly show his resilient qualities, of course this work shows in each time there is a difference and there is development. Falling into the hands of the enemy when he was still a boy, Tnú showed his bravery and perseverance. When confronted with the enemy, Tnú glowed with resilience and indomitable darkness in the face of the enemy’s brutal darkness.
Depicting the character’s personality, Nguyen Ngoc has a knack for choosing typical details with high generalization meaning, details rich in figurative and poetic qualities. In the reader’s awareness, stands the image of Me with very ingenious carvings of the author: an old Me with very ingenious carvings of the author: an old Met with a long beard, eyes. bright, chest stretched like a big beam.
And also touched the hearts of an old Met who was in love with his grandchildren when he turned to wipe two large tears while silently looking at Tnú’s wide back and the wounds that had turned into purple scars. Thus, the heroic character in the jungle not only touches the reader in overcoming their dire circuTaxances, but also in their emotions and secret feelings.
On his writing pages. Nguyen Ngoc often experiences his lyrical feelings about the people and country. The voice of Sa Nu Forest is full of lyricism, when it is deep and heroic in the flickering light of the fire at home, but in the solemn and touching narrative about the painful past of Mrs. body, following the line of thinking about Tnú’s homeland… the text of the forest is rich in images, rich in rhythm, many elaborate and smooth passages like the language of a poem (for example, the opening paragraph) work). It is the look of the text that contributes to the attractiveness of the work.
The forest is a human story, but through it we see the fate of a nation. From the story of Tnú and of Xo Man village, the author talks about the growth of the southern revolution in the days before and after the co-initiation. Reading the forest of sa nu today, I still feel the echo of the heroism of an anti-American era, a time when there were beautiful people like Mr. Met, like Tnú, like Dit, like Mai….

Analysis of the work “The forest of soap nuns” number 8
The short story “Sna Nu Forest” was written in mid-1965, when the war for the liberation of the South was at a turning point from the “special war” strategy to the “local war” strategy; Tens of thousands of American expeditionary troops poured into the South, the revolutionary forces had to face great challenges, but still persisted in their goals and fighting will to liberate the South and reunify the country.
Nguyen Trung Thanh at that time was working as a journalist in the army for the liberation of Central Central Vietnam and promptly wrote the famous essay The Way We Go, which is considered a swashbuckler of the time of fighting the American imperialists. Next, at the request of the magazine Van Nghe Quan liberating Central Central, with deep understanding and affection for the Central Highlands, the writer quickly wrote the story “Rung Xa Nu” with the basic idea of asserting The only way to liberate the people of the South is to take up arms to fight and use revolutionary violence to fight the enemy’s brutality.
Xa Nu forest is a story about the “co-start” of Xo Man village in the Central Highlands, also a tragic story about Tnú’s life. These two stories are interlocked, but the story of Tnú takes place on the historical background of the village’s “co-starter”. The idea of the story’s theme was expressed through the words of Mrs.
At the climax of the conflict between the villagers of Xo Man and the enemy, in the words of a village elder; That thought was inscribed as a historical truth: “Remember, write it down. Later, when I’m dead, I’m still alive and I have to tell my children and grandchildren: They have guns, we have to hold spears! … “. Of course, the value of a work is not only in the illustration of those ideas, these ideas are the gathering point of all the author’s artistic inspirations and illuminating all the artistic details of the work.
The story of the forest is full of epic nature. The epic quality exudes from the subject, the plot to the characters and the natural images, the artistic details and the tone and language of the work. Pay attention to the narration of the story: The story of the history of the uprising of a village and Tnú’s life is told in one night, the night he visited the village, through the words of Mrs.
The story is told through the words of a village elder, by the fire burning all night long, for the whole village to hear: a solemn voice as if passed on to generations of descendants the tragic and heroic history of the community: Mr. Old people have not forgotten, the dead have forgotten, then leave the memory for the living… “Strangers who have ears, those whose stomachs love mountains, love water, let’s listen, listen, and remember. Later I will die. , you have to tell your children and grandchildren!…”.
Such narration is reminiscent of the khan (long song) narrative of many ethnic groups in the Central Highlands. By the communal fire of the village, khan songs are told as if sung for many nights, epic poems tell about the legendary history of the tribe, about heroes who represent strength and thirst. expectations of the community (such as the epics of Dam San, Xinh Nha, Dam Bori,…).
In the jungle, the story Old Met told the villagers is the story of the present time, but was told as a historical story with epic solemn tone and language, with an attitude of “contemplative contemplation” ” across an “epic gap” narrated people and events.
This short story has built a whole family of characters, showing the continuation of the revolutionary generations of Xo Man village in the Central Highlands: Uncle Met is the link between history and the present, the generation that fights from anti-French colonial period; Mr. Quyet is a revolutionary cadre who “seeded” the revolution in the Central Highlands; then Tnú, Mai and then Dit, even the boy Heng – generations of people in the Central Highlands continued the fight, growing up faster and faster. The central character – Tnú – is focused on portraying both personality and fate by the author.
Tnú’s life and fate represent the fate and liberation path of the people of the Central Highlands. In Tnú, many details are described in order to accentuate the beautiful personality traits that were revealed from an early age: gritty and daring, brave and honest, attachment and loyalty to revolution, love of wife and children and villagers, homeland,…
The love story of Tnú and Mai in childhood was innocent and poetic, in adulthood it was beautiful and affectionate, but then became extremely tragic by the extreme brutality of the enemy, right in the middle of the two. who are filled with happiness. But perhaps in the character Tnú, the image of the hands makes a deeper and bolder impression. Through the hand that shows the life and personality of the character.
When Tnú’s hand was still healthy, it was an honest and affectionate hand: the hand holding chalk wrote the word taught by Mr. Quyet, the hand daring to hold a stone and hit his head “Communist here!” When the enemy interrogated, when Tnú escaped from Kong Tum prison, returned, and met Mai at the top of the village, Mai held those hands and burst into tears.
With empty hands, Tnú rushed out between the enemies, knocking down the fat soldier who was making iron rods on Mai and her mother. But with empty hands, Tnú could not save his wife and children. Tnú’s two hands and ten fingers were wrapped in rags soaked in soapy oil and burned. Ten fingers turned into ten torches. The fire from the ten fingertips – where the nerves are most acute – burned Tnú’s guts and nerves: “I don’t feel fire in ten fingers anymore.
He heard fire burning in his chest, burning in his stomach. His blood was salty at the tip of his tongue. Your teeth have already bitten your lips.” Ten torches of Tnu’s fingers ignited the revolt of Xo Man village: in the light of the snake fire, Old Me and a bunch of young people with spears and spears in their hands rushed out to kill them. wiped out a whole squad of enemy soldiers, starting the armed battle to liberate the village.Tnú’s hand was already extinguished, but only two fingers remained on each finger.
Burnt knuckles cannot regrow. The burnt-out ten-fingered hand was still there as a vestige of hatred that Tnú carried with him throughout his life, reminding him and the whole village of Soman about the barbaric crimes of the enemy. But the hand with two fingers on each finger still holds a spear and can hold a gun. And Tnú went on the road, took the gun to find the Duc guys to claim the blood debt… Towards the end of the story, Tnú’s hand once again appeared in a scene described as meticulously as a close-up shot of the cinema. .
But this time it was in a position, a completely different relationship with the enemy. With those ten-finger amputated hands, Tnú strangled the commander of the enemy station right in his entrenched bunker, in the light of the flashlight shining on his face, allowing him to clearly see the hand of punishment, the hand of retribution. is squeezing the throats of Duc (with Tnú, they are all Duc).
A prominent and transparent image in this boring story is the image of the barnacle tree. This image is not only a natural scene as the background for the story, but also carries a large symbolic meaning. The beginning and the end of the story are both images of the forest: “As far as the eye can see, there is nothing but the hills that follow the horizon” (this sentence is repeated almost completely at the end, like a curving tail, making a prominent impression, creating an afterimage and echo that lingers in the reader’s mind after the story has ended).
But so nu is not only honey in the opening and ending, it is present throughout the story of Tnú and his village of Xó Man. The snake is attached to life and daily activities as it has been for thousands of years, familiar to the villagers: the fire of the rafters flickered in the fire at the house, gathering all the villagers; black smoky smoke on the children’s bodies; The smoke also made the bamboo board black for Mr. Quyet to teach Mai and Tnú to learn letters,…
Xa Nu also participates in important events of the life of Xo Man village: the torch burns brightly in the hand of Mr. Met, and the villagers go to the forest to collect spears, marks, lures, and machetes to prepare for the war. revolution; The whole village stayed awake at night sharpening weapons under the light of the torches; the enemy burned Tnú’s hands with rags soaked in soapy plastic; and then the fire from the snake torches lit up the whole village on the night of the uprising, illuminating the bodies of ten slain soldiers lying around a huge bonfire in the middle of the village’s falconry yard.
Xa Nu has become a symbol of the life and quality of Xo Man villagers and the people of the Central Highlands. We understand why this short story is called Forest of Snakes. The author also clearly stated the role of the soap nun image in the organization of artistic details and gathering the main inspiration of the work.
It can be said that the image of Xa Nu is a dominant motif in the work, without finding this image, the author could not write the short story “Rung Xa Nu”. Nguyen Ngoc recounted: “How did it start? No, actually I didn’t have any story or plot at the beginning. Starting to come to the pen, it was almost unexpected, a forest of snakes. , the barnacles.
In May 5, when I marched in from the North, I accompanied Mr. Nguyen Thi. Nguyen Thi returned to the South, I turned down to Area Five. Let’s go along Truong Son from the North, to the point of farewell for each person to their battlefield, which is the immense forest to the west of Thua Thien bordering Laos. It was a pine forest stretching to the horizon.
I have been passionately in love with the forest trees since that day […], Nguyen Thi and I lived together for a day and a night to say our last farewell in that wonderful forest […] Why is the middle of the year night? In 1965, while I was writing, the snake forest suddenly came to me and flowed out from under my pen!
Do you remember Nguyen Thi? From the day we entered the battlefield, we did not trust each other. Because at that time, having entered the direct confrontation with the US, my whole life – which I reviewed with Nguyen Thi and reviewed the other day under the forest of Tay Thua Thien – suddenly came to life? Or because the atmosphere of “Hich General Soldier” fighting the American empire at that time was very handsome, very “snappy” ?,… I don’t remember and know for sure.
But that’s it, the snake forest suddenly came. And immediately I knew I had created the atmosphere, there was a three-dimensional space. And also immediately entered the air, and that space.” Because of the meaning of a symbol, the description of the tree here is always placed in relation to humans, suggesting associations about the life and fate and dignity of the people – the villagers. Sou Man.
The barnacle tree loves light and air, “it goes up very quickly to receive sunlight”. Just like Tnú, like the freedom-loving Xo Man villagers. The barnacles forest as well as the village of Xo Man suffered a lot because of the daily destruction of the enemy: “In the whole forest of thousands of trees, there was not a single tree that was not injured”.
But it has a strong vitality that nothing can destroy: “Next to a tree that has just fallen, four or five saplings have grown, green tops, pointed arrows straight to the sky”, as well as Generations of Xo Man villages, one after another, stood up and continued the fight.
Mr. Quyet sacrificed, there was Tnú, Mai ; When Mai fell in the middle of her youth, full of life like a raspberry tree cut right in the middle of her body, then Dit grew up unexpectedly, became party secretary, community politician, and then Heng children. Dit’s next generation, is also growing up following in his father’s footsteps.
The method of “projection” between nature and humans is also shown when describing water, the author often uses a comparison with the barnacle tree. Mr. Met’s “chest is as tight as a big barn tree”; The wound on Tnú’s back caused by a knife cut “a drop of deep blood, from morning to afternoon it thickens, dark purple like a sap nu”.
This artistic technique of “projection” in description creates a transformation and integration between the images of nature and humans, a majestic and magnificent poetic chorus of immortal vitality and war. the people’s indomitable struggle for freedom.

Analysis of the work “The forest of soap nuns” number 6
The Central Highlands is majestic with mountains, the Central Highlands is indomitable and resilient with people who are outspoken, loyal, and one-hearted in following the revolution. It is the land that produced countless national heroes going into history, this is also the land that inspired author Nguyen Trung Thanh. During the years of a glorious milestone in the nation’s history, the heroic struggle of the people of the Central Highlands inspired him to write the short story “Rung Sa Nu”, an excellent short story of anti-American literature.
Forest of Xu nu is an epic about the heroic struggle of the Central Highlands people with the growth of a new revolutionary generation, young, enthusiastic, wise and resilient. It’s just a short story, but it has a huge amount of reality that its historical value affirms.
“Forest of snakes” is about the heroes of the Straw village of Xo Man in the resistance war against the US. The work represents the epic tendency and romantic inspiration of Vietnamese literature in the period 1954-1975. The writer’s inspiration about the heroic character is associated with the inspiration of the majestic country associated with the image of the barnacle tree of the Central Highlands.
The work opens with the image of a beam forest – a tree of the pine family, wood and resin are all very precious, have strong vitality and toughness very close to the people’s life in the Central Highlands to symbolize quality and strength. the indomitable spirit of the villagers of Xo Man and the Central Highlands ethnic groups.
And especially, it is also a forest of snakes that defied bombs and bullets, overcoming brutal destruction to receive the sunlight to maintain their life, the forest of snakes was full of life despite the enemy’s cannons. “it’s customary, twice a day, either in the morning and in the evening, or standing in the dark, or in the middle of the night and the rooster crowing” pounded him with painful death. The story begins and ends with the image of a forest of snakes with the intention of the author Nguyen Ngoc.
During the story-telling process, the image of the forest is repeated over and over, creating the feeling of a chorus, nearly 20 times the writer mentions the forest of the sa nu, the tree of the sa nu tree, the sap of the sa nu, the top of the bar, and the hill of the hill. nu, sa nu smoke, sa nu fire, sa nu oil… Everything seems to revolve around this special plant. Reading backwards is not difficult to realize that the meaning of the forest is to speak of the sustainable and rebellious vitality of the villagers of Xo Man, of the indomitable Central Highlands.
The epic nature of the fairy tale will not become the main tone of the work without the image of the barnaque tree exploited from many angles and repeated many times, especially the images of “snake hills” nu” (4 times), “sava nu forest” (5 times), with “tens of thousands of trees” “stretching out their big chest to protect the village”.
The image of the barnacle tree opens the story as the opening of the fierce struggle of the villagers and it is also a predictive image. With the art of anthropomorphism, the author speaks to the pain of loss of the villagers of Xo Man and denounces the crimes of the enemy. Each tree that fell, we felt as pitiful as a villager of Xo Man fell.
Author Nguyen Trung Thanh has intended to describe the forest in a very poetic, refined and refined language in a language that is both descriptive and suggestive, opening up rich associations for readers.
The image of the barnacle forest here is both a real image of a forest “hungry for sunlight”, as well as a symbolic image of the people of the Central Highlands who are suffering, indomitable and resilient in the days of co-oppression. America. The combination of the specification style and the personalization method has maximized its effectiveness. The snake forest appears as a loyal friend to the villagers of Xo Man, like the beautiful people of the village. And it can be said that the snake forest is a symbol of the immortal vitality of the people of the Central Highlands and of the people of Vietnam.
The short story appears as a picture that faithfully reproduces the entire struggle full of hardship but not lack of resilience of the people of the Central Highlands during the days of fighting against the US, the writer focuses on describing the growth of the next generation. , promoting the heroic tradition of his father and through that the writer also reflects the maturity of the people of the Central Highlands in the one-on-one struggle with the new enemy, the US imperialists. Typical for that generation of young people are Tnú and Dit. Their growth is associated with the struggle of the people of Straw village in Xo Man village.
The main character of Xa Nu Forest was orphaned at a young age, the child of the mountains and forests of the Central Highlands grew up in the care of the villagers, raised and raised. That is the national hero who grew up, matured, and is resilient and indomitable from the heart of the people and the nation.
Tu came to the revolution from the very beginning at the time of the most arduous and fierce days when My Diem was terrorizing the revolution every day and night. It was Tnú who witnessed the pain of the villagers. The invaders “hanged Mr. Xut on the fig tree at the head of the village, killed Mrs. Nhan, cut off her hair and hung the gun”, just because they were brave people who dared to raise the name of revolutionary cadres.
When Tu went to the forest to raise cadres, he received knowledge and reason to live through the guidance of Mr. Quyet. Once in contact, Tnú was ambushed and captured by the enemy, they took them back to the village, tortured in all kinds of ways, Tnú’s back was cut and slashed, but Tnú still did not declare, just calmly pointed his elbow and stomach to pay. answer the enemy’s question: “Communism is here.” That answer is not simply an answer, it is a challenge, courage! And that challenge, Tnú must pay the price of three years in prison.
Returning from Kon Tum prison, Tnú is a young man, more mature in personality. He clearly understood his duty when he received Quyet’s last words. He became the leader of the fight of the villagers of Xo Man. He immediately followed Mr. Quyet’s instructions to “prepare spears, spears, spears, machetes, arrows, slingshots…” preparing everything necessary for the upcoming battle. And happiness came to him in those days. , the girlfriend he went with him to contact became his life partner.
Another challenge came to Tnú: the enemies at the Dac Ha fortress went down to Xo Man village to arrest him, his wife and children fell into their hands. Unable to bear the sight of the enemy torturing his wife and children. I had to go out and confront them. And in this confrontation, his tenacious qualities shine brighter than ever. Enemy captured Tnú, they burned ten of his fingers, “Ten fingers have become ten torches”, teeth biting his lips, without a sound, Tnú glared at the enemy.
It can be said that Tnú is the image of the painful and indomitable Central Highlands. The brutality of the enemy had reached its peak and the people could not bear to live under that brutal yoke. Therefore, when the angry scream of Tnú sounded, the scream was like a signal to summon the villagers to take up arms, the whole village of Xo Man stood up. “The sound of killing”, the sound of footsteps pounding the house. The sound of the soldiers screaming… The villagers’ revolt saved Tnú and then he went to liberate the army to liberate the people, liberate the country with a deeper judgment.
This can be seen clearly in Tnú’s confiding to the villagers after “three years of going to the army”. He told me that he killed Duc, the commander of the enemy station in Dak Ha, the man who killed his wife and children, the one who caused pain to the village of Xo Man, and according to him, every enemy “is also Duc”. Obviously, for the Tnú liberation soldier, the common enemy of the Central Highlands and the country is also the enmity of his family and homeland. It is a profound awareness, the awareness that Tnú draws from his own pain, the country’s villages and the battle of his homeland.
In Tnú’s generation, there was also Dit, the secretary of the commune cell and a political member of the Xo Man village team. Three years ago, the day Tnú died. Dit “was still a little girl with no clothes to wear, cold nights without sleep…” However, when Tnú returned, she took on the most important jobs of Xo Man village. Dit is not a coincidence but a process of training to overcome challenges at a young age.Dot is a smart, very brave child.
At that time, Dit was captured by the enemy “They let her stand in the middle of the yard, loaded up the shrimp bullets and then slowly fired each bullet, didn’t hit, the bullets just grazed her ears, scorched her hair, and plowed the ground around Dit’s two small feet. . Her dress was torn in pieces. It cried out, but then on the tenth pill, it wiped away the tears, and from then on it was silent. It stood quietly among the soldiers, with each bullet exploding, its slender body twitched, but its eyes still looked at the enemy with strange calmness.
Not only brave, Dit is also a strong girl. Witnessing the painful death of Ms. Mai, Dit “tumbled and didn’t say anything, his eyes were dry while everyone, including the old man, cried”. Just like that, Dit grew up with the struggle of Xo Man village. Becoming the leader of the village’s fight, Dit also proved to be a brave and convincing person.
Seeing Tnú again, Dit couldn’t help but be moved, looking at him with “open, calm, transparent eyes”. However, she did not forget her responsibility when she asked “Do you have a paper?”, when she stated firmly “you can’t have a paper, the committee has to arrest it” and after looking at Tu’s paper, she said again. “Why did you come back for one night only?” That’s how Dit is, courageous, firm, no less devoted to his homeland, so that the outside seems to be only cold and calm.
Tnú and Dit represent the youth generation of Xo Man village, from their hatred to the national struggle and in that fight, they grew up. Their growth was rooted in the fact that on the one hand they overcame great challenges on their own, and on the other hand, was due to the revolutionary guidance of their fathers. In particular, the maturity of Tnú and Dit is described by Nguyen Ngoc in relation to the heroic media of the Strá. Mr. Met is the representative of the previous revolutionary generation of Xo Man village.
He is the living history, the spiritual support of the villagers. Although he is old, “he is still scowling like before… his chest is like a big rafter… his voice is still loud and loud in his chest”, still leading the village’s fight day and night. Perhaps his life has experienced many sufferings and has gained many valuable experiences, so he always reminds his children and grandchildren of the indomitable painful past of his homeland.
Witnessing Mai’s tragic death and Tnu’s helplessness in the face of the brutal and brutal torture of Duc’s gang, Mrs. Met understood even more: For the enemy, “there are only two empty hands, only empty hands. ” it is impossible to confront them, must take up arms! This lesson, he wants to pass on to future generations: “Listen well, children, do you understand, remember, take note. I’m dead, you’re still alive, you have to tell your children and grandchildren. They hold guns, we send spears.” The old man’s words resounded in the flickering fire of the eagle’s house.
Building the character of Mr. Met as a legendary character, crystallizing many good qualities of the people of the Central Highlands, does Nguyen Ngoc want to affirm the role of the previous generation in the younger generation? Mr. Met is both the person who connects the traditional generation with the history of his homeland, and also the one who leads the young generation in the current fight. It is because there is a generation of his fathers like Madam that the generation of Tnú, of Dit … have great maturity.
And not only people like Tnú, the class after Tnú like baby Heng, also grew up, grew up with the fierce fighting of Xo Man village. With the character Heng, Nguyen Ngoc only sketched a few lines describing his appearance, but it was enough to create a deep impression on the reader.
Baby Heng’s age, should be, is the age to go to school with pages of books, with fun games, but the country is still at war, he is still young, Heng has the appearance of “a real soldier, wearing a helmet His hat was pulled down to beg by some liberator, put on a long-sleeved shirt, still wearing a loincloth, and a gun slung across his back.” Moreover, Heng belonged to each layer of pitfalls and pits, becoming a liaison like Tnú in the past. What a generosity and trust for a class of people like little Heng! That class is growing up, mature, worthy of his father’s generation.
Reading the forest of soap nuns feels like watching a movie about the fate of a person with many events. The story begins in the present from the time when the soldier who liberated the Tnu army set foot on his homeland “after three years of going to the army” and went back in time to the past.
The past keeps appearing in Tnú’s recollection, in the author’s narrative, in his narration. Fragments of past life and present life, interweaving and enlightening each other to explain the maturity of the Tnu generation, the maturity of Xo Man village in the battle with the enemy, to make it clear. The theme of the story, from personal pain and common pain, Tnú and Xo Man village must take up arms to save themselves, to liberate the nation and the nation’s heroic fight to give birth to a new generation of young people. commensurate with his father.
It is this thought that has dominated the structure of the Snake Forest. The system of events in the story is mainly organized according to the psychological development of the central character’s personality, not in the usual chronological order. Organizing the event in that way, the writer has the condition to focus on describing dramatic situations that highlight the character’s personality, on the other hand, is also consistent with the political meaning of the work.
Twice directly confronting the enemy is the two times Tnú clearly shows his resilient quality, of course this work shows in each time there is a difference and development. Falling into the enemy’s hands when he was still a boy, Tnú showed his bravery and loyalty. When confronted with the enemy, Tnú glowed with resilience and indomitable darkness in the face of the enemy’s brutal darkness.
Depicting the character’s personality, Nguyen Ngoc has a knack for choosing typical details with high generalization meaning, details rich in figurative and poetic qualities. In the reader’s awareness, stands the image of Me with very ingenious carvings of the author: an old Me with very ingenious carvings of the author: an old Met with a long beard, eyes. bright, chest stretched like a big beam.
And also touched the hearts of an old Met who was in love with his grandchildren when he turned to wipe two large tears while silently looking at Tnú’s wide back and the wounds that had turned into purple scars. Thus, the heroic character in the jungle not only touches the reader in overcoming their dire circuTaxances, but also in their emotions and secret feelings.
On his writing pages.
Nguyen Ngoc often experiences his lyrical feelings about people and his homeland. The voice of the forest is full of lyricism, when it is deep and heroic in the flickering light of the fire at home, but in the dignified and moving narrative about the painful past of Mrs. body, following the line of thinking about Tnú’s homeland…
The text of the forest is rich in images, rich in rhythm, and many paragraphs are polished and smooth like the language of a poem (for example, the opening paragraph of a work). It is the look of the text that has contributed to the attractiveness of the work.
Writing about the uprising of the Xo Man villagers during the resistance war against the US, it was called “Sa nu forest”… The image of the barnacle tree is a unique artistic creation of Nguyen Trung Thanh. With a symbolic pen, the theme of the story “Forest of snakes” deepens. It is thanks to the image of the tree that the heroic characters are immortal.

Analysis of the work “The forest of soap nuns” number 2
Nguyen Trung Thanh is a writer born in the land of Thang Binh, Quang Nam, his birth name is Nguyen Ngoc. Born and raised in a miserable country when it had to go through two great national resistance wars, more than anyone else, he cherished and admired the people who sacrificed their lives for the revolution and for the beloved Fatherland. .
Especially for the heroic Central Highlands and the people who were straightforward, brave, loyal, and loyal to the revolution, he favored and devoted a lot of love. Therefore, the many struggles of the heroic Central Highlands people have become an endless source of inspiration for him to write the successful work of the Forest of Sorrows, becoming a masterpiece associated with his name.
The forest of soap nuns was written in the years of the glorious resistance war against the US to save the country. The work was printed in the magazine of Liberal Arts, extracted from the volume “On the homeland of Dien Ngoc heroes”. This is a song praising the bravery, iron will, indomitable resilience of the Central Highlands people.
The forest around the village of Soman is introduced by the author in the first paragraph of the work. A forest of trees is always “within the cannon range of the enemy’s fortress”, constantly bombarded by gunfire, the extremely brutal destruction of the enemy before the vitality of nature – “Most of the cannon bullets fell on the hill. rafters next to the big water”. A painful scene appeared in front of my eyes, so many pine trees without being hit by bullets, every tree had a patchy wound, ulcerated forever and then died.
The cannonballs were brutal, uncompromising in front of the majestic beauty of nature, the medium-sized tree was cut in half and poured over. However, the snake forest still did not give up, the strong trees quickly healed themselves. They still continue their strong vitality to open their arms to protect the beloved village. Tree after tree still proliferated, life still sprouted before the destruction of the enemy “next to a newly fallen raspberry tree, four or five saplings have sprung up”.
The salamander tree stood up on its own, survived and developed, bravely standing before the enemy’s bombs and bullets “for the past two or three years, the snake forest has stretched out its big chest, protecting the village”. The image of the barnacle forest appears so beautiful, how proud it is. The barnacle tree is a symbol of the Central Highlands, a representative of the people of the Central Highlands, a metaphor for the personality and vitality of the Central Highlands people ever since. In pain, there is still resilience, in oppression, still full of hope, still carrying the will to fight, vowing to follow the revolutionary example, is the eternal life of the Soviet village.
After the image of the snake, the author continues to faithfully recreate the life and battle of the people here. They are generations rich in patriotism, having great faith in the revolution, and shining heroic examples to the country and the country. It is an old lady representing the previous generations of heroes full of experience, bravery and patriotism, always guiding the villagers to the right steps in battle. As a person who sees far, understands the villagers, is an indispensable spiritual support of the village of Soman.
With the old man, “The cadre is the Party. The Party remains, the mountains of this country remain”. His truth “They use guns, we must hold spears” was like a declaration in the nation’s war. It was also a Tnú with heroic qualities.As a child, he was soon enlightened by the revolution. , striving to become people like Mr. Quyet leading the revolution.A brave and courageous boy, amidst many battles full of guns and bullets of the enemy, the communication boy still successfully completed all assigned tasks.
When arrested, Tnú remained loyal despite cruel torture, but still determined to keep it a secret. After escaping from prison, thinking of being happy with his wife and children, the enemy entered to destroy the uprising movement, once again Tnú suffered from torture and suffering when his wife and children were killed but could not do anything. The more in pain, the more heroic qualities shine in Tnú, the more oppressive they become, the stronger they stand up to avenge a great revenge for their wife and children, for themselves and for the beloved Soman villagers.
The scream of hatred is the voice of indignation, tearing hearts in the middle of the war, is the call for people to stand up to kill the enemy, the bandits to steal the country. The hand was burned with ten fingers, but it did not burn the will of the people of the Central Highlands. In the end, Tnú was able to kill Duc, who had directly killed his relatives, taking revenge on his deep revenge. Túnú represents the generation of young people who grew up in the revolution, believed in love and gave their best to serve the liberation army.
There are also Dit, baby Heng, … the generation that follows his father’s many feats to work together to bring victory to the end. Generation after generation, growing up, fighting bravely to be worthy of his father’s sacrifice. It seems that, in the fierce war, the people of the Central Highlands have asserted themselves more and more. In the midst of sorrow and darkness, they are even more courageous and brilliant.
The snake forest and the people of Soman village are like two but one, they have suffered a lot of pain, and they have grown strong. It is the immortal vitality and indomitable spirit of the people of the Central Highlands in general and the Vietnamese people in particular.
With an ingenious combination of epic tendencies and romantic inspiration, Nguyen Trung Thanh not only praised the beauty in the personality of the people of the Central Highlands, but also posed a contemporary problem: To To destroy the enemy, to protect the freedom of the country must first take up arms.

Analysis of the work “The forest of soap nuns” number 1
The land of the Central Highlands with its indomitable children has become an attractive topic for artists, including writer Nguyen Trung Thanh. He is best known for his short story “The Forest of Snakes”. This is a short story that has contributed to the success of the author’s creative career.
Nguyen Trung Thanh wrote “The forest of sa nu” in 1965 and this work was printed in the volume “On the homeland of Dien Ngoc heroes”. The title of the story evoked the image of the immense forests of savanna and its intense vitality as well as the intense vitality of the village of Xo Man.
Prominent in the work is the image of the “serial barnacles running to the horizon”. Xa nu is a tree belonging to the pine family, which grows a lot in the Central Highlands. It often grows into a large forest and is a unique feature of this heroic land. The beginning of the work is the image of a forest of snakes surrounding the village, protecting the village from the cannon attacks of the enemy. The fierceness of the war has made “the whole forest of thousands of trees, not a single tree is uninjured”, “there are trees that were cut off half of their bodies, rushing like a storm”.
This is a plant that is closely attached as a companion to the villagers. Their lives since birth, growing up and returning to the motherland are also associated with the barnacle tree. Under the canopy are the activities of the community, the dating of the couple’s love.
The fire of the raffia burned in each kitchen, the torch of the raffia glowed brightly in the night of the uprising against the enemies of the Xo Man villagers, and the smoke of the raffia rammed the black bamboo boards for Mr. Quyet to teach Tnú and Mai to study, which proved to be useful. , the great role of the bamboo tree for the people of the Central Highlands. The fire also illuminates “the corpses of ten enemy soldiers scattered” to show the strength, will and courage of Xo Man village.
Not only has a realistic meaning, the tree also has a symbolic meaning for the fate and noble qualities of the people of the Central Highlands. The snake forest had to endure so many enemy cannons that they “rushed like a storm” when “half of their body was cut off”.
Those wounds do not heal but “just keep on ulcerating” reminds us of the pain and loss that the people here have to endure. But the enemy’s bombs could not stop the growth and proliferation of the snail tree: “Next to a newly fallen pine tree, four or five saplings have sprouted, green tops, pointed arrows. to the sky”. They grow very fast, “cannon bullets can’t kill them”.
That’s why “for the past two or three years, the snake forest has stretched out its big chest to protect the village”. That image is a symbol of the unyielding and unyielding strength of generations of people in the Central Highlands. The previous generation fell, and the next generation rose up. This is also a plant that loves sunlight: “It rises very quickly to receive the sunlight in the forest shining from above in straight streams, sparkling with countless golden dust particles from the sap flying out, fragrant and fragrant. “. It is similar to how Tnú and the villagers of Xo Man followed the light of the revolution.
The image of the tree and the forest is a unique creation of Nguyen Trung Thanh. He used the cinematic look to reproduce the scene vividly. Sometimes he looked from afar to see the whole forest of raspberries, when he got close enough to see a close-up of the baby rafters rising up proudly. It is not an ordinary tree but a tree bearing the heroic appearance of the people of the Central Highlands.
The typical representative of these people is Tnú, a resilient and indomitable soldier. From a young age, Tnú went to the forest to hide from cadres. When learning to lose to Mai, Tnú grabbed a stone and hit himself on the head. Thanks to Mr. Quyet’s advice: “Tú must be an officer instead of him. If you don’t learn how to write, you can’t be a good cadre”, so Tnú was determined to learn letters.
When communicating, Tnú did not go on the trail because the enemy surrounded him, he “teared the forest and went”, “choosing a strong waterfall to swim across, go over the water, ride on the ice waterfall like a whale” . His quick-wittedness is also shown in the act of “swallowing the letter” when captured by the enemy. He very proudly answered the question of where the enemy’s cadres were by placing his hand on his stomach and saying “Here.”
Growing up, Tnú and the villagers sharpened their weapons to fight. This news reached Duc’s ears, he tried to capture Tnú. It captures Mai and her son Tnú for the purpose: “Caught the female tiger and the cub, all will be able to lure the male tiger back.” But Tnú could not save Mai’s mother and daughter because he did not have a weapon in his hand. He was captured and tortured by the Duc guys by wrapping a rag soaked in soapy oil on his ten fingers and then burning him. The pain of losing his wife and first son and the physical pain seemed to blend together into hatred and resentment.
But Tnú “didn’t cry out” but “rolled his eyes at Duc”. It seems that the will and strong spirit have made: “I don’t feel the fire in my ten fingers anymore. He heard fire burning in his chest, burning in his stomach. His blood was salty at the tip of his tongue. Your teeth have bitten your lips.” Tnú is not only a man with heroic qualities, but he is also a man of deep affection. Tnú is a husband and father who deeply loves his wife and children.
Having to witness the scene where Mai and her mother were tortured by the enemy, he “cut off dozens of figs without realizing it”, “where his eyes are now two big fireballs”. He rushed out to save Mai’s mother and daughter without fear of danger. He forgot his whole life to save his wife and children, to save the people he loved the most.
Tnú grew up in the care of the villagers, so he loves his hometown deeply. When he was on leave, he went back to visit the village, “emotional to let the water of his village splash all over his body like the day before”. He loved his hometown dearly, loved the sound of pounding rice of the village sobbing in his heart for many years. If not a person deeply attached to his homeland, Tnú would not have such subtle feelings.
Besides the character Tnú, the writer also depicts the characters of Mr. Quyet, Mr. Met, Mai, Dit, Heng, etc. to highlight the successive generations of heroes who stood up against the enemy. Quyet was a revolutionary cadre who taught Tnú and Mai to read. At the same time, he is also the person who rekindled the fighting spirit for the people of the Central Highlands. He plays an important role in educating the revolutionary spirit for the young generation. With whispering words, he aroused Tnú’s patriotism and determination to fight for revolutionary ideals.
It would be a big omission if we don’t mention Mr. Met. He is the village elder, the hero of the previous generation who led the village to rebel and fight. He was also the one who told the youth in the village about Tnú’s life. Mr. Met affirmed the revolutionary path that the people had to follow: “They have guns, we have to hold spears”. It is a correct truth for our people to believe and follow. Our people cannot endure oppression forever, so we must take up spears and stand up to fight for justice.
The generations following the path of the old Me, Tnú are Dit and Heng. Dit grew up as a communal politician and party secretary, but since childhood, Dit was a brave little girl. Every evening, Dit “crawled along the water trough to bring rice to the forest for Mr. Met, Tnu and the youth”. Captured by the enemy, they shot them one by one, “grasping his ears, scorching his hair, plowing the ground around Dit’s little legs” causing “he cried out” but “on the tenth bullet he wiped his tears, and since then he was silent” and look at the enemies “strangely calm”. Although she was just a little girl, Dit had extraordinary courage and energy, and was not afraid of enemy guns.
Even the boy Heng, on the day Tnú left, “he just stood up to his stomach, didn’t know how to carry firewood, only wore a small bar to follow the adults to the fields”, when Tnú returned to visit the village, he “carrying a Cool rifle” looks like a real soldier.
Heng led Tnú through the streets “interlaced with tunnels and pits, every ten minutes, he met a ready-made rig, the rod stretched like a sling, with one shot, it was sure to break the shins in two, the tongue sticking out in pairs.” , each pair on the truss, sharp and cold”. That brave boy has contributed to creating a heroic collective in the days of fierce anti-American imperialism of the Central Highlands villagers.
Throughout the story, there is a majestic epic quality expressed through the subject, theme, character, and tone of the author. “The forest of snakes” has recreated the heroic and exciting atmosphere of the struggle against the empire of Xo Man villagers in particular and of the Vietnamese people in general.
The character system is also depicted as heroic, indomitable people appearing on a large space background. In addition, the author also created the image of a tree with bold symbolism for the people of the Central Highlands. The voice praises heroically, the atmosphere is like the atmosphere of the battle against the enemy.
The writer built two opposing character lines between the cruel Duc and the heroic generations to highlight the spirit and fighting will of the villagers. The type of story structure nested in the story has brought attraction to the work.
Besides the story of the uprising of the villagers of Xó Man, there is also the story of the life of the hero Tnú. All these factors have made the fairy tale live forever in the hearts of readers. When we think of the Central Highlands, we remember the immense forests of savanna and the generations of heroes who fought the enemy in succession.
