Top 10 essays analyzing the character A Phu in To Hoai’s work “A Phu couple”

To Hoai is a great writer with a record number of works in modern Vietnamese literature. With a deep understanding of the customs and habits of many regions and a lively witty narrative, he has created famous works that reach the hearts of readers. One of his excellent short stories is “The A Phu couple”.

“The A Phu couple” is the result of a field trip with the army to liberate the Northwest in 1952. The short story was printed in the collection “Tales of the Northwest” published in 1953. The story tells about the lives of two characters. Me and A Phu themselves. These two characters have contributed to highlighting the value of the story as well as the author’s purpose when composing this short story. And the character of A Phu represents the stubborn, stubborn Northwestern boys who are not afraid of power.

A Phu has a very special background. He is an orphan, with no relatives. He is the only one in his family to survive the pandemic. When he was ten years old, he was forced to sell rice in exchange for Thai people. Then he escaped to the mountains and wandered to Hong Ngai. Since then, his life has been full of ups and downs. In the work, he appeared on the night of spring love when he fought with A Su, the son of the governor, Pa Tra. This incident has somewhat revealed the personality of this character.

First of all, A Phu is a healthy and talented young man. He is the dream of many girls. From chiseling plowshares, herding bulls… he does it very well. People in Hong Ngai say that having him in the house is no different from having a good buffalo. But he still can’t get a wife. Because he was poor, “only one necklace around his neck”. Even so, on the night of spring love, he still took the gyro to find a mate. That’s why life was born in Hong Him.

A Phu has a very strong personality. When he was ten years old when he was sold to exchange rice for Thai people, he had to live in low fields, he couldn’t bear it and fled to high fields. This detail alone can partly understand his personality. In particular, he was not afraid of mandarins. He fought with A Su – the son of the governor of Pa Tra.

He beat A Su without fear or abstention because he was a mandarin. He was so stubborn that during the trial, they beat and cursed him, he remained “as silent as a stone statue”. When he became an unpaid servant to the governor, he remained free. The governor’s family couldn’t tie him up. Every day he roamed the edge of the forest everywhere. He alone herds dozens of cows.

Unfortunately one day, because he was engrossed in a hedgehog trap, he let the tiger eat a cow. But he was not afraid and calmly carried half a cow to the governor’s house. Not only that, he also told the governor to go and catch the tiger. Indeed, although he became a slave to the governor, he still did not lose his bravery, remained stubborn, and was not afraid of power.

His strong personality is also reflected in his psychology when he is tied up. He stood still for the governor’s family to tie him, then couldn’t bear to chew through the rattan ropes with his teeth. He was so strong that he was tied up for several days without complaining. It was only on the third day that he felt he was on the verge of death that he desperately let two tears crawl down his cheeks. His strong personality was very beneficial for later revolutionary enlightenment.

With the ability to portray ingenious characters, To Hoai has built a very typical character for the boys of the Northwest – A Phu. A healthy young man with talent and strong personality. A Phu is a symbol of a rustic and sincere mountain boy. At the same time, building the character of A Phu also contributes to expressing the realistic and humanitarian value of this short story.

“A Phu couple” is the result of a field trip to the Northwest of To Hoai. This is a work that best reflects the life and unfortunate fate of poor farmers under the oppression and exploitation of feudal landlords. But what stands out more is their aspiration, their strong will to live. A Phu is a character that leaves readers with many emotions about overcoming oneself. To Hoai was very successful in portraying this character.

A Phu is not a character that appears at the beginning of the story but seems to haunt the reader until later. A Phu with personalities and qualities that both make people feel pity and make people admire more. To Hoai allowed A Phu to appear in a fight with A Su, then was arrested and brutally beaten. Next, the author goes upstream to tell about the situation of A Phu.

A Phu had to endure hardship and hardship during his childhood years. The smallpox epidemic when A Phu was ten years old took away his family, parents, brothers and sisters. Leaving A Phu alone, helpless and indifferent. The situation really moved the reader. Even more sad, someone sold A Phu to exchange for rice. But A Phu’s gritty and unruly personality could not bind him.

A Phu fled to Hong Ngai, working as a hired laborer from season to season. That hardship has been practiced for many years, A Phu became a brave young man, bravely facing fate. This is one of the things that made a breakthrough in A Phu’s life.

Since growing up, A Phu has proven himself to be a brave, reckless, unyielding person, always fighting with himself to reach for the best. plowing well and hunting gaurs very aggressively.” It was A Phu’s energy and health that made many people love him.

Despite poverty and hardship, A Phu is always optimistic and confident in the future ahead. On New Year’s Day, “A Phu only has one necklace, A Phu keeps going out with the village boys, bringing flutes, trumpets, gyros and even pounds to find a lover in the villages in the region”. It is this that has made an impression on many girls.

But A Phu is a person who has no father, no mother, no money, no money, no fields, then getting married is too far away. A person who should have enjoyed happiness but ended up alone like that. Perhaps the image of A Phu beating A Su makes the reader both rush and feel sorry for this person.” A Phu ran out, waved his hand and threw the big gyroscope at A Su’s face. As soon as A Shi waved his hand, A Fu rushed over, grabbed the necklace, smashed his head, tore his shirt shoulder and beat him.”

This action both proved that A Phu was very healthy and was not afraid of the brutal feudal landlords. But this is also the cause of the deep enmity between the poor peasants and the landlords and aristocrats. A Phu was brutally and brutally beaten by Governor Pa Tra from noon to night.

It can be said that the governor is the embodiment of a feudal society with many customs, heavy class discrimination, and contempt for the peasants. They regard A Phu as an animal, nothing more, nothing less. The appearance of A Phu at that time was pathetic and pitiful “A Phu was just as silent as a Buddha statue”. That silence is anger, resentment to the extreme but can’t do anything.

Just because of that action, A Phu had to be a lifelong slave to the governor. The society at that time seemed to only find ways to push the poor peasants to the bottom of the new society to gloat and rest assured. At this point, we think of the character Me, perhaps A Phu like Me, living in this house full of resentment.

A Phu’s life is similar to that of Me, from here on, life or death is at the mercy of the governor. A Phu does not have the right to choose his own path, cannot choose his own happiness. During this lifetime, he had to work as a buffalo as a horse for the governor. A painfully harsh truth. To Hoai has moved readers. In the language of specification, the author has created the distinction of A Phu.

One tragedy after another, just because the tiger took the cow, the governor arrested A Phu and brutally beat him. Suffering and despair are imprinted in those eyes, eyes that haunt the reader to the heart. Death is evident in A-fu’s mind and A-fu is very aware of this.

Perhaps it was because of this awareness that made the breakthrough at the end of the work when I decided to untie and run away with A Phu. Perhaps this is the passage that makes the reader feel both suspenseful, sorry and admired. When people are exploited too much, they will struggle to find their own way. A Phu really did. Leaving the governor’s house, A Phu will become a useful citizen for the country, following the call of the revolution.

To Hoai was very successful when building the character A Phu, a typical image of a peasant in an oppressed feudal society but with a strong desire to live.

In the work “A Phu couple”, the reader can’t help but be impressed with the character A Phu – an ethnic boy with an unfortunate fate but with extraordinary qualities.

A Phu was introduced as an orphan, alone, was sold to Dong Thap, escaped back to the high fields and then wandered to Hong Ngai. From a young age, A Phu was stubborn and brave. The boy who works well, is not afraid of hard and dangerous jobs, is the dream of many girls. However, A Phu still went out on New Year’s Day, dreaming of finding a couple. Shows this is a guy who yearns for happiness and love.

A Phu is like a child, like a bird in the Northwest mountains. The character A Phu fell into an unfortunate situation through the unreasonable lawsuit of the family of the ruler Pa Tra. From this case, A Phu went from a free man who loved life to become a slave for life for the governor. The reason is also because A Phu dared to fight A Su.

In the scene where A Phu fights with A Su, To Hoai uses a series of strong verbs: rush out, swing his arms, throw, rush forward, grab the necklace, pull his head down, tear his shirt, beat him. Reading this passage, the reader has the feeling of witnessing gloatingly the beating of the poor boy to punish the children of authority and trust.

However, all those dreams and aspirations ended when he became the slave of the governor. Verdict in this trial: A Phu was initially charged with death and then released. With the governor Pa Tra, A Phu lived to work to repay the debt (paying a fine of 100 white silver coins). The freedom-loving boy was turned into an eternal debtor.

Although the events are different, the ways of being bound and tortured physically and mentally by two unrelated characters, Me and A Phu, are the same. That’s how the rulers and rulers in the localities plagued the people before they were liberated by the Revolution. A Fu was forced to do dangerous and hard work, and became a slave without pay due to a debt he did not know when to pay it off.

A Phu also did not dare to think of escaping due to the terrible power of the governor Pa Tra. Despite working hard and suffering, it only takes one mistake to make A Phu suffer. Disaster struck A Phu when he accidentally let a tiger eat a cow. A Phu was tied to a stake. Human life is less than an animal’s life.

The governor lost a cow, but A Phu had to pay with his life. It was a barbaric, dehumanizing act of the rulers, disregarding the lives of true workers. But it was also from this misfortune that brought an unexpected and emotional meeting for A Phu and Me.

From an emotionless girl, witnessing A Phu tied up, I still calmly said: “A Phu is a dead body, still the same”. But when he saw A Phu’s tears: “glitter crawled down the darkened cheeks”. This is an expensive art detail that arouses my love and vitality. I immediately remembered the scene where I was tied up in a winter love night and no one came to save me.

Perhaps, human tears have touched the hearts of writers and they are always looking for ways to exploit it to bring value in their works. We see the meeting of two famous realist prose writers To Hoai and Nam Cao. Nam Cao also had a short story called “Tears” and many of Nam Cao’s works, the image of tears has a very important meaning.

For Nam Cao, “tears are the pearls of mankind”, “it can purify the human soul”. Is it possible, when describing the stream of tears on the dark gray cheeks of A Phu – an unusually strong, brave Hmong man about to become a corpse on the stake of the governor of Pa Tra, To Hoai also thought of this?

It was thanks to this tear that I was determined to cut the ropes to untie A Phu, freeing a person who was about to face the brink of death. But when I finished cutting the rope, I panicked again, afraid that I would have to die instead of A Phu, I would be tied to that stake to die due to the cruelty of the governor. I quickly made a wise decision: “A Phu let me go”, “he will die here”. My desire to live, my desire to live and my love saved both Me and A Phu from “hell on earth”.

Through the work, author To Hoai has successfully built the character of A Phu with the image of a worker yearning for freedom and love of life. From there, it shows the talent and deep sympathy that the author has for the poor and unhappy working people.

A Phu couple is a typical work when author To Hoai wrote on the topic of Northwest. This unique work was later made into a movie and was well received by the audience. Along with that, the characters in the work A Phu couple have become typical characters. In particular, the image of A Phu stands out, bringing the beauty of the Northwest people and the bravery to overcome fate.

To Hoai’s work A Phu and his wife opens by introducing the character Me in a paradoxical love scene and attracting readers: “Whoever comes back from afar, has the opportunity to enter the house of the governor of Pa Tra, he often sees a The girl sat spinning hemp by the rock in front of the door, next to the carriage.

Always, whether spinning yarn, cutting horse grass, weaving cloth, chopping wood or carrying water under a stream, she would bow down, her face sad.” And from that one image, then when connected Linked together, the author highlights the image of the character in the work, but this image also makes the character A Phu and Me have the predestined relationship.

A Phu appeared in a situation where, unfortunately, A Phu got into a fight with A Su, the son of the governor of Pa Tra, and because of this, A Phu was arrested and brutally beaten. After this situation, the author began to introduce the situation of A Phu, he was a poor man, lost both his parents, and lived an orphan life with no one to take care of. And ironically when the hungry villagers forced A Phu to sell in exchange for Thai rice in the field.

But not resigned to fate, 10-year-old A Phu made a living alone, learning many professions to support himself. From a young age, with a bitter fate, A Phu knew how to overcome and fight with fate, not letting fate make him an ironic fate. The latent vitality of a person was soon revealed, not only when he was young but when he grew up, A Phu was an outstanding young man, gentle and hard-working. Not only that, A Phu under To Hoai’s description is a person with better health than others.

A Phu is also a person with a liberal life, loves life and justice, so when there is a grievance, even though he knows the truth will belong to him and does not know what will happen, A Phu still decides to do that. We see here that A Phu is a reckless and courageous person.

Moreover, it is because of his liberal lifestyle and health that many people notice him. Many girls love A Phu, but because of the harsh wedding custom in the contemporary feudal mountain society, A Phu was despised and another reason, how did A Phu have enough money to ask and marry? wife.

When he was taken back to the governor’s house, A Phu became a slave to the governor, and with his instincts, A Phu did not complain, did not plead for a word, A Phu never surrendered even before who am i. A Fu was beaten brutally, his face was swollen, his lips and eyes were bleeding. “Just like that, all afternoon, all night, the more you smoke, the more awake, the more you beat, the more you curse, the more you smoke.”

The sentences are very realistic to describe that unique trial scene, there are several times the writer mentions the image of opium smoke pouring out of the window holes, he also uses lists of sentences and syntactic repetition to emphasize the barbaric nature of power in the Pa Tra dynasty for the people in the Northwest mountainous region during the feudal colonial period. Having been fined, A Phu became an unpaid resident with mountains of work.

A Phu can burn forests, plow upland fields, break fields, hunt gaurs, trap tigers, herd cows, and herd horses. All year round alone roaming in the hills outside the forest, sometimes when hungry in the forest, tigers and bears often come to them. Herds of cattle, goats and horses, A Phu had to stay in tents every month in the forest. But he did not say half a word, but accepted because the land lords were damned, oppressing the people too shamelessly.

A Phu accepted it because A Phu himself did not have a family, had a home, moreover, if he had committed a crime, he must also be punished. But when there was an incident that happened when the tiger took the cow, A Phu resolutely contradicted Thong Ly’s words, determined to go and catch the tiger. But in the end, he had to drive the stake himself and take a rattan rope to be tied.

In the house of the governor of Pa Tra, his life was indeed despised, he had to take the place of a cow that was eaten by a tiger. And the tear in the hollow of his grayed cheek was a tear of bitterness, loneliness, helplessness, and despair.

However, we can see that in A Phu there is a very strong resistance, it has been raised since childhood. He was beaten during the trial because he committed a crime, but when he lost the cow, he was ready to take revenge and he believed that he would catch the tiger. Tied from foot to shoulder, but at night he bent down or broke two ropes, he found a way to free himself.

At the same time, when he was saved by Me, he was exhausted, because of several days of being tied up, suffering from hunger, thirst, and pain. But because death would soon come, he struggled to get up and run to escape the shackles of the governor, from the life of slavery. When Mi ran after wanting to go with A Phu, A Phu let Me follow, he not only saved himself but also saved Me.

After leaving the governor’s house, A Phu found a new land to live in. Here, he, like many other people, suffered a very miserable life due to the oppression of the feudal colonialists, but when he met revolutionary cadres, he quickly became a revolutionary, a captain. brave guerrilla, who represents the great revolutionary ability of the people of the Northwest mountainous region. The image when A Phu was enlightened to the revolutionary truth is a beautiful image, not only of A Phu but also of the people in the Northwest.

With his talented pen and delicate description, To Hoai has highlighted the image and mettle of A Phu – a typical character in the story. Along with A Phu is Me, although they were oppressed, they had to always fight for happiness, they had to go through many hardships and bitterness to liberate themselves with their own rebellious strength.

Northwest, is there only Northwest

When my heart turned into ships.

The verses of Che Lan Vien remind readers of a Northwest land with many wilds and mysteries. Discovering the Northwest is not only the poetic souls of Che Lan Vien. We also encountered To Hoai with his own collection of stories written about the customs of nature and people of the Northwest. In which, the short story A Phu couple is one of the three most typical short stories of the Northwest story collection. The short story succeeds in building the character image and A Phu is the typical character in the whole story.

To Hoai is a great writer in modern Vietnamese prose with a record number of works. Most of To Hoai’s works are about expressing the truth of everyday life with witty, vivid and attractive narration. His compositions show a deep understanding of the people’s lives and customs as well as the activities of the people of the Northwest.

A Phu and his wife are excerpted from the Northwest story collection after To Hoai’s field trip in 1952 during a trip to the Northwest. The story aims to reflect the fate of workers in the Northwest mountains, going from a miserable fate to a new life of freedom.

A Phu is a poor and unhappy H’mong boy. Orphaned by both parents at a young age, caught and sold by the villagers to the Thai people in the lowlands, A Phu fled back to the highlands and wandered around the Hong Ngai region, going from house to house. By adulthood, A Phu was still poor, with only two empty hands, so he could not get a wife.

But A Phu was a healthy, strong, industrious, brave and talented man: burning forests, making wages, hoeing food, herding cows, trapping tigers, herding cows, herding horses. and know how to chisel. In particular, A Phu always aspires to a free and liberal life. Right from the age of ten, the boy A Phu refused to live with the Thai people at the foot of the mountain, but wanted to return to the highlands, accepting a life here and there, but being a bird of the free mountain.

From a guy full of energy, strong and resilient nature, always yearning for a free and liberal life. A Fu was brutally tied by the ruling class to a painful and humiliating life of slavery. But if Mi’s suffering is constant, persistent, and silent, then A Phu’s suffering is described focusing on two scenes that are the scene of the punishment event and the scene of A Phu being tied up because he lost his cow.

The scene of the punishment event took place just because A Phu dared to fight against the main mandarin, A Su, and caused A Phu to be arrested and brought back to the governor’s house to sue. A particularly strange and brutal trial as never before. The public is the governor, the judge is the governor of Pa Tra. The participants in the trial were large with all the dignitaries in the region, solemn and solemn, only smoking opium and eating dinner.

The egg people are the village boys – the tools of the governor. As for the defendant A Phu, he was not allowed to speak, could not hear the impeachment, but always knelt down and suffered a beating. The atmosphere of the trial was full of tumult, chaos of voices, cursing, punching and kicking and the hissing of opium, the suffocating smoke of opium wafting through the doorways. At the end of the trial, A Phu had to pay a huge and unreasonable fine.

In addition to the money for the person who was beaten, they also had to pay all the money for the mandarins, for the people to call the mandarins, all the money for smoking opium from yesterday to the next day and a pig for the village to eat. All up to a hundred white silver coins and Pa Tra knew that A Phu could not have the money to pay, so he lent him a loan, spending his whole life as a buffalo and a horse to repay him: your life, your life, your life. Your nephew never owes me.”

To make the chain stronger, Pa Tra called the ghost to identify the borrower and then all the silver lent to A Phu was returned to the governor’s pocket. A Phu’s humiliating slave life began from that moment. In pain, limping, A Phu had to take a knife to kill pigs as a meal for those who had just beaten, cursed and punished him.

And from a strong, brave young man who longed for a free life, A Phu had to live a life like a buffalo and a horse with a herd of buffaloes and horses. Through the punishment event, writer To Hoai denounced the greedy and cruel nature of the ruling class in the mountainous region. They have used all kinds of malicious tricks to impose the level of tying free workers into slavery to exploit them to the end.

Just because he accidentally lost a cow of the governor, A Phu had to suffer a terrible punishment. A Phu’s suffering and humiliation was, first of all, digging holes to bury the posts with his own hands, and using rattan ropes to let others bind him. A Fu brutally tied him up: tied him up with a rattan rope until the governor came in and put two more loops around his neck, making him unable to move, and left him in pain. starving to death to pay for the life of the cow of the governor’s family.

Thereby, we understand more about the atrocities and brutality of the ruling class in the mountains. They consider human life less than animals and understand more about the suffering of working people when being pushed into slavery. . They have been completely deprived of their right to life and human rights.

When he was a boy at the age of ten, A Phu accepted to live in poverty, going from house to house to live freely, and when he witnessed A Shu harassing and disrupting the game, A Phu beat him even though he knew that that’s the mandarin. During the brutal trial of the governor Pa Tra, A Phu did not cry or groan, but just knelt like a stone statue to receive the blow.

Before the formidable power, A Phu was helpless to endure, but hidden in that attitude was the defiance of the implicit resistance. In the night when A Phu was tied up, the young man broke a few ropes to free himself. Only when two more nooses were placed around his neck, A Fu was powerless.

The strength of the spirit of resistance and desire was most evident when A Phu was untied by Me. A Phu collapsed from exhaustion, but then A Phu got up and ran away from the governor’s house. Perhaps the desire to live, be free and the spirit of resistance in that slave boy created an infinite source of strength that made A Phu not only save himself but also save Me from running away from the governor’s house. Pa Tra, to be free to end the life of slavery.

To Hoai has built the character of A Phu by typifying style, both specific and general. Both A Phu and Mi have similar fateful qualities, but the writer’s way of portraying the character has changed and created to match the real person. A Phu is portrayed through language and actions. A Phu’s expressions, words and actions are often brief, decisive, and very consistent with his personality and contribute to the expression of real and humanitarian values.

Closing the page about the short story A Phu couple with images of A Phu and Me has left many thoughts in the reader’s mind. The writer has been very successful in recreating the image of A Phu and Mi with vitality with strong resistance despite the circuTaxances. The work will live forever with time and accompany readers for generations.

It can be said that the short story “A Phu couple” is one of the most outstanding “spiritual children” of writer To Hoai’s field trip to the Northwest mountainous region. This is a work that reflects boldly the life and fate of poor farmers under the yoke of feudal landlords.

Thereby, it seems that the author also highlights the aspiration and strong will to live of the poor. And besides the character Mi, the character A Phu is a character that leaves in the reader’s heart many deep impressions of the bravery to overcome fate and overcome himself.

A Phu is a character in the story, although not a character that appears at the beginning of the story, but seems to make readers obsessed until later. The character seems to have appeared before the reader’s eyes during a fight with A Su – the son of the governor of Pa Tra, so he was arrested, fined and beaten very brutally. From here, it can be seen that the author has gone upstream to tell about A Phu’s calendar, helping readers better visualize his life path beyond his destiny.

A Phu is known as a child born into poverty, more painfully orphaned by both parents after a smallpox epidemic. That’s why all five months of his childhood had to live as a damned slave when he was captured by the villagers and sold to Thai people in the fields.

However, it seems that he did not submit to fate, A Phu took a risk and fled to Hong Ngai, he went to work as a hired laborer from season to season to earn a living. And also because of the bravery, and a potential vitality that was forged during those difficult years and that is also one of the things that made a bigger breakthrough later in A Phu’s life. .

Ever since he was an adult, A Phu has proven to be a brave, unyielding man who always has the will to overcome his bitter fate to reach his good and desirable things. He seems to have “knowing how to cast plowshares”, “hunting bulls very boldly”. A Phu is not only a good worker, but also has more health than people: “A Phu runs as fast as a horse”, you can say “Work or hunt, everything is done”. It can be seen that his vitality and health seem to have made many girls and villagers love him.

But unfortunately, A Phu appeared to be a person without father, mother, house, and field, and it is also because of the Meo people’s marriage customs that one must have a hundred white silver coins, so for A Phu, she specializes in getting married. his wife and him are too far away and somewhat illusory. It can be seen that a healthy and personality guy like him is supposed to be happy, but in the end, he still has to be alone like that.

And despite poverty and hardship, A Phu always lives optimistically and confidently in the future ahead. On Tet holidays, A Phu doesn’t seem to have new clothes like other boys, but with the character A Phu “only has a necklace” but “A Phu keeps hanging out with the village boys, take the flute, the trumpet, the gyro and even the pound to find a lover in the villages in the region”. There were a lot of girls saying to each other: “Whoever gets A Phu is equal to a good buffalo in the house, soon he will be rich”.

Not only that, in character A Phu is also a person of respect and full of meaning. When there is a disagreement, even though he knows the truth will belong to him and does not know what will happen, A Phu often rushes in to defend his friend. This proves that the character A Phu is a brave and courageous guy.

And when he was arrested and returned to the house of governor Pa Tra, A Phu was brutally beaten by his family from noon until late at night. And the image “A Phu’s face is swollen, his lips and eyes are bleeding”. But the family members said “Just like that, all afternoon, all night, the more you smoke, the more awake, the more you beat, the more you curse, the more you smoke”.

Despite being beaten and very painful, A Phu did not cry and beg, but on the contrary, “A Phu knelt, suffered the blow, just remained as silent as a stone statue”. His enduring silence showed his bravery, never giving up no matter who he was and his helplessness and anger to the extreme because he couldn’t do anything.

Until the end, at the end of the cruel trial, A Phu was forced by the governor Pa Tra to be an unpaid slave for life for his family to pay off the debt. It is a human life that is despised, mistreated, and has to undertake even the most dangerous and arduous jobs such as the dangerous bull-hunting.

With the trial scene and the outcome of the trial, it was shown that the ruling class of landlords always seemed to seek to push the impoverished peasants to the bottom of society, not giving them any chance to rise up. claim the right to live and be a righteous human being. Only then will the new landlords gloat, new peace of mind.

The feudal social system in the Northwest mountains is so cruel that people can keep their lives and have the right to live and kill others. As a debtor and a slave, A Phu’s life or death is in the hands of the governor, Pa Tra.

For the same reason, just for the sake of letting the tiger take the cow, A Phu was beaten and tied to a stake “with a reed rope wrapped from foot to shoulder”. And the story that A Phu will have to die “die of pain, starve to death, die of cold” is going to happen. And similar scenes that I have witnessed in the house of governor Pa Tra – to replace the cow that was eaten by the tiger.

However, it is with the brave bravery, not giving up available, A Phu definitely refuses to die buried in that wooden pole, but he always finds a way to free himself. “The night came, A Phu bent down. , or break the two ends of the rope, gradually move the rope to tie one hand”. But before he could stop, it was just dawn, and Pa Tra put another rope around A Phu’s neck.

And the character “A Phu can’t bend, can’t shake anymore” has to “stand with eyes closed, until late at night”. And you can see the tears crawling down his dark gray cheeks are tears of bitterness, loneliness, helplessness and despair. And is it because of seeing those tears of pain and despair that at this time, the character of My has ignited the fire of struggle, deciding to untie A Phu and herself.

Together, the two escaped from Hong Ngai, to the guerrilla area in Phieng Sa, to meet A Chau cadre. From here, it can be said that A Phu and Me respectively became guerrilla fighters, actively participating in the struggle to completely liberate their lives and liberate their home villages. The image of the character A Phu and Mi escaping from the governor’s house, Pa Tra, and realizing the revolutionary truth is a beautiful image, representing the great revolutionary ability of the people of the Northwest mountainous region.

Together with Mi, it can be seen that the life and character of A Phu has a symbolic meaning for the fate and quality of the people of the Northwest highlands. From the darkness of suffering and humiliation and by their own strength they reached the light of dignity and freedom, the light of the Revolution. It can be said that it is also the new and profound humanitarian value of this poetic work.

A Phu couple is one of three short stories in the collection of Tales of the Northwest by writer To Hoai, composed in 1953. The story tells the story of two life stages of Me and A Phu during the days in Hong Ngai in the governor’s house Pa Tra and later. when they went to Phien Sa, they became husband and wife, met the Revolution and became a guerrilla fighter. In particular, A Phu is a character that makes a deep impression.

The author let A Phu appear quite suddenly in a fight with A Su, arrested, brutally beaten at the governor’s house, and then told about the character’s background. It was a poor man who lost both his mother, father and brothers in a terrible smallpox, had to live a lonely life when he was very young, and “the hungry villager forced A Phu to sell it in exchange for his people’s grain.” Thai under the field”.

Not resigned to a miserable life, at the age of 10, A Phu asserted his bravery: making a living alone, learning all kinds of professions “knowing how to cast plows, plow well and hunt very brave bulls”. When growing up, A Phu was not only gentle and good at labor, but also had better health than other people. “Work or hunt, everything is done”, “A Phu runs as fast as a horse”.

Overcoming harsh circuTaxances, A Phu still lives a life of a free spirit, innocent, loves life, loves justice, and is confident of youth. “At the age of playing, on New Year’s day, even though he did not have new clothes like many other village boys, A Phu only had a necklace around his neck. A Phu also went with the village boys to bring flute, gyro and pounda. find lovers in the villages in the forest”. Therefore, A Phu became the dream of many Cat girls. They said to each other, “Anyone who gets A Phu is equal to having a good buffalo in the house, and soon becomes rich”.

However, with the harsh customs of the contemporary feudal mountain society. A Phu was not only despised, but in fact he never made enough money to build a house and get married. More miserable, A Phu is the son of a free mountain and forest but still can’t escape the life of slavery. The incident happened on the night of the Spring Festival. A Phu dared to fight the son of a mandarin, “Run away, throw a huge gyroscope in A Su’s face. Just in time to raise his hand, A Phu rushed over, grabbed the necklace, clamped his head down. , tore off the shoulder of his shirt, beat him …”

That fierce action of A Phu had deep causes from class hatred. After that, being brutally beaten by the hands and feet of the Pa Tra family, A Phu proved to be an indomitable, tough and courageous person. A Phu did not cry and beg on the contrary, “A Phu knelt, suffered the blow, just remained as silent as a stone statue”. In the end, in a bizarre trial scene when the petitioner was the same person sitting in the judge’s chair, A Phu was forced by Pa Tra to be an unpaid slave for life to pay off the debt.

It was a life of being despised, mistreated and had to shoulder the hardest and most dangerous jobs such as “plowing fields, hoeing and hunting bulls, trapping tigers, herding horses all year round and roaming around alone all year round alone. mounds, upland forests”. A Phu’s life or death is also decided by the brutal hand of the governor Pa Tra. Just because the tiger took away the cow, A Phu was beaten and tied to a stake “with a reed rope wrapped from foot to shoulder”.

And if A Su’s group did not catch the tiger, A Phu would surely die “die of pain, starve to death, die of cold” — Nhu My had witnessed similar scenes. However, with a strong love of life, a courageous, indomitable, available nature, A Phu did not accept death but sought every way to free himself: “The night came, A Phu bent down and broke the two ends of the rope. , gradually inching the rope tied one hand”. And with the help of Me A Phu was free. The two escaped from Hong Ngai, went to the guerrilla area in Phieng Sa, met with A Chau cadre.

A Phu and My in turn became guerrilla fighters, actively participating in the struggle for the complete liberation of their lives, liberating their home village, from spontaneous struggle, A Phu and Me have progressed gradually. to a self-determined struggle. Along with Mi, the life and character of A Phu have a symbolic meaning for the fate and quality of the people of the Northwest highlands.

From the darkness of a life full of suffering and humiliation, they reached the bright light of dignity and freedom, the light of the Revolution. That is also the profound new and humanitarian value of this poetic work.

A Phu and her husband were composed in 1952. This is the best story printed in the collection “Tay Tay Bac” by writer To Hoai (1953) and won the first prize of the 1954-1955 Cultural and Art Association. The writer wants to do this. shows the life of the ethnic people who are honest, wholeheartedly cherish their feelings, no matter how difficult they are, look forward to a bright tomorrow, typically the character A Phu. The image is very special.

A Phu had a special fate because A Phu was orphaned by both parents, with no relatives left, and not many people in the village survived the smallpox epidemic: A Phu’s brothers and parents died. A Phu has passed the harsh screening of nature, A Phu is healthy and survived. A hungry villager brought A Phu to exchange for Thai rice in the field.

However, only 10 years old, but A Phu was very stubborn, refused to stay in the low fields, fled to the high mountains and wandered to Hong Ngai to work again for this house, another house, overcome countless hardships, tried challenge and A Phu has grown up, becoming a strong, resourceful, intelligent guy: “Knowing how to cast plowshares, chisel hoes, plow well and hunt cows very daringly. A Phu is strong and runs like a horse” .

Therefore, girls have many girls who are fascinated, many people have said: “Anyone who gets A Phu is equal to a good buffalo in the house, soon becomes rich.” However, people only wish that. Because A Phu is orphaned, poor, has no field, no money, no home, A Phu can’t get a wife because A Phu spends all day plowing and hiring, and the custom of marrying for permission to drink wine is also bigger than the village’s permission.

Writers portray characters through narrative art combined with vivid and attractive descriptions seen from the outside to create highlights on personality. The writer pays special attention to the actions of the characters to help readers feel the beauty of A Phu.

The writer especially emphasizes the gritty, strong, and personal character in the character A Phu, which emerges from the age of 10 with the wild life of the mountains and the image of having to work as a hired hand. Living has molded the strong and bold character of A Phu. That personality sometimes becomes brazen, ready to punish the bad guys. That’s when A Phu went out with the village boys, A Phu beat A Su. The people of the governor Pa Tra are as powerful as the sky, no one dares to touch them, they have the right to do whatever they want.

However, A Phu is not afraid, A Phu hitting A Su is fighting a disruptor, hitting a troublemaker, it is a brave act to show courage and bravery. The writer used vivid and attractive narrative language to recreate a very exciting battle. “a big man…” hit hard …”. The writer has described consecutively strong, fast, daring actions: rushing out, swinging arms, throwing, rushing, grabbing necklaces, pulling punches. head, tore his shirt shoulder, beat him… to emphasize the strength and character of A Phu.

Because of that action, A Phu had to pay a heavy price, becoming an extremely miserable debtor. A Phu is alone all year round, destroying the fields, hoeing the forest, hunting bulls, catching cows, trapping tigers, herding cows, herding horses. While A Phu’s youth was trying to do everything, in the hungry season, because he was absorbed in trapping porcupines and letting the tiger eat his cow, A Phu casually carried half of the cow that was half eaten by the tiger and said to the governor: “I’m back. Take a gun to catch the tiger”.

That is the special character of A Phu: A Phu is also very calm when arguing with the governor, not afraid of the power of the wicked, the prestige of the rich, the tiger or the governor is the same. In particular, even the fact that A Phu took the stake and rattan rope by himself, drove the stake himself so that people could tie him to death instead of the animal that had just been lost, A Phu also did it very calmly.

That is showing A Phu’s personality as a strong, courageous person who is not afraid of death. A Phu was untied by Me, sympathized, aspired to freedom, aspiration to live, which prompted A Phu to struggle to rise up to run, to escape from the house of ruler Pa Tra. After that, A Phu went to Phieng Sa and was enlightened by A Chan to become a guerrilla member following the revolution.

Through the A Phu couple, the writer wrote about the miserable, miserable and humiliating life of the poor people in the Northwest mountainous region. The poor people from Hong Ngai to Phien Sa, from a life of slavery, oppression, and humiliation, to a life of freedom and happiness, from a life of darkness to a life of light, joy, from the body. buffalo for the rich to become a guerrilla fighter to fight for the liberation of his homeland and his life.

A Phu represents people who do not accept oppression and exploitation who rose up to protest fiercely. It is a process of dialectical and logical transformation from spontaneity to self-awareness in the light of the revolution.

To Hoai is like a living dictionary, a living book. He has a deep and rich understanding of the customs and habits of many different regions, a witty narration, a rich and creative vocabulary, and a bold visual depiction that moves people. He successfully wrote the story of the Northwest, including the short story A Phu couple.

Through this short story, To Hoai reflected the anguish and rise of the Meo people in the Northwest, a determination to follow the resistance to win love and happiness. Typical for those people is A Phu, one of To Hoai’s most successful characters in this work

In 1952, To Hoai and his army entered the Northwest to liberate. This field trip has given the writer insight and affection for the people and landscape of the Northwest. “A Phu and his wife” were printed in the volume “Tales of the Northwest”. The author let A Phu appear suddenly in a fight with A Su – the son of the governor, and then he was arrested, beaten, fined, and had to stay in debt. Then tell the background of A Phu. This introduction both attracts the reader’s attention and emphasizes the strong character of A Phu.

From a young age, A Phu was orphaned parents, had no relatives in the world, was captured by the villagers and sold to Thai people in the lowlands. At the age of ten, A Phu was stubborn, did not like to live in the lowlands, fled to the mountains, and wandered to Hong Ngai. Growing up in the mountains and forests, A Phu was a strong man who “runs as fast as a horse”, “knows how to cast plowshares, he knows how to cast hoes, he is good at plowing and hunting bulls very boldly”.

Many girls in the village are fascinated, they say to each other “Anyone who gets an A Phu is equal to a good buffalo in the house, soon to be rich”. People joke like that, but A Phu is very poor. Having no parents, no fields, no money, working as a hired hand all his life, how could A Phu get a wife? If in another society, A Phu deserves to be happy. However, A Phu was trampled on and treated unfairly. If it weren’t for Me’s liberation, A Phu would have died in the hands of the governor, Pa Tra.

A Phu’s gritty personality has been revealed since the age of 10. That personality is molded by the wild life of the mountains and the living situation of the hard-working hired labor, creating an A Phu with a strong and daring personality. As soon as it appeared, A Phu captivated readers with strong and predictable actions: “running away”, “swinging hands and throwing”, “rushing to grab” “pulling the head, tearing, hitting…” . A Phu is a straightforward, hot-tempered, honest, and spontaneous person.

A Fu beat A Su to punish his son’s selfishness. He was caught by the family of the governor, beaten all night until “A Phu’s face was swollen, his lips and eyes were bleeding”, “his knees were swollen like a tiger’s face”. However, A Phu was “just as silent as a stone statue” showing his courage, daring to do what he did. When he had to live as a debt collector, he was still a boy of freedom. Even though he had to “burn the forest, plow the fields, hoe the fields, hunt bulls, trap tigers, herd cows, herd horses…”, A Phu did nothing but calculated the loss all year round alone.

Because he was busy trapping a porcupine, letting the tiger capture a cow, A Phu honestly brought back half a half-eaten ox and calmly said to the governor, “Lend me the gun. I’ll go get the tiger back.” He considers it a very easy task. The governor did not allow it, and he argued back very calmly. He is not afraid of anyone’s prestige. It’s the same with a tiger or a ruler. Even when quietly taking rattan stakes and ropes and driving stakes so that people could tie him to his death in place of the lost animal, A Phu did so calmly. As a strong and courageous person, A Phu is not afraid of death.

Tied to stand, hungry and thirsty in the freezing cold, A Fu did not accept it, he chewed off two rounds of the rope, but could not escape. A Fu cried in despair. The tears of a strong, freedom-loving boy who had to bitterly let go of his cruel fate touched the reader’s heart. We see more clearly the brutal face of feudalism, the land lord in the mountains in the past.

A Phu’s character has been successfully portrayed, sharp observation and natural ability to capture human personality are two factors that help the writer create a unique image with just a few simple strokes. . Through the character of A Phu, the realistic and humanitarian value of the work is more prominent.

A Phu couple is a typical work when author To Hoai wrote on the topic of Northwest. This unique work was later made into a movie and was well received by the audience. Along with that, the characters in the work A Phu couple have become typical characters. In particular, the image of A Phu stands out, bringing the beauty of the Northwest people and the bravery to overcome fate.

To Hoai’s work A Phu and his wife opens by introducing the character Me in a paradoxical love scene and attracting readers: “Whoever comes back from afar, has the opportunity to enter the house of the governor of Pa Tra, he often sees a The girl sat spinning hemp by the rock in front of the door, next to the carriage.

Always, whether spinning yarn, cutting horse grass, weaving cloth, chopping wood or carrying water under a stream, she would bow down, her face sad.” And from that one image, then when connected Linked together, the author highlights the image of the character in the work, which also makes the character A Phu and Me have a predestined relationship.

A Phu appeared in a situation where, unfortunately, A Phu got into a fight with A Su, the son of the governor of Pa Tra, and because of this, A Phu was arrested and brutally beaten. After this situation, the author began to introduce the situation of A Phu, he was a poor man, lost both his parents, and lived an orphan life with no one to take care of. And ironically when the hungry villagers forced A Phu to sell in exchange for Thai rice in the field.

But not resigned to fate, 10-year-old A Phu made a living alone, learning many professions to support himself. From a young age, with a bitter fate, A Phu knew how to overcome and fight with fate, not letting fate make him an ironic fate. The latent vitality of a person was soon revealed, not only when he was young but when he grew up, A Phu was an outstanding young man, gentle and hard-working. Not only that, A Phu under To Hoai’s description is a person with better health than others.

A Phu is also a person with a liberal life, loves life and justice, so when there is a grievance, even though he knows the truth will belong to him and does not know what will happen, A Phu still decides to do that. We see here that A Phu is a reckless and courageous person.

Moreover, it is because of his liberal lifestyle and health that many people notice him. Many girls love A Phu, but because of the harsh wedding custom in the contemporary feudal mountain society, A Phu was despised and another reason, how did A Phu have enough money to ask and marry? wife.

When he was taken back to the governor’s house, A Phu became a slave to the governor, and with his instincts, A Phu did not complain, did not plead for a word, A Phu never surrendered even before who am i. A Fu was beaten brutally, his face was swollen, his lips and eyes were bleeding. “Just like that, all afternoon, all night, the more you smoke, the more awake, the more you beat, the more you curse, the more you smoke.”

The sentences are very realistic to describe that unique trial scene, there are several times the writer mentions the image of opium smoke pouring out of the window holes, he also uses lists of sentences and syntactic repetition to emphasize the barbaric nature of power in the Pa Tra dynasty for the people in the Northwest mountainous region during the feudal colonial period. Having been fined, A Phu became an unpaid resident with mountains of work.

A Phu can burn forests, plow upland fields, break fields, hunt gaurs, trap tigers, herd cows, and herd horses. All year round alone roaming in the hills outside the forest, sometimes when hungry in the forest, tigers and bears often come to them. Herds of cattle, goats and horses, A Phu had to stay in tents every month in the forest. But he did not say half a word, but accepted because the land lords were damned, oppressing the people too shamelessly.

A Phu accepted it because A Phu himself did not have a family, had a home, moreover, if he had committed a crime, he must also be punished. But when there was an incident that happened when the tiger took the cow, A Phu resolutely contradicted Thong Ly’s words, determined to go and catch the tiger. But in the end, he had to drive the stake himself and take a rattan rope to be tied.

In the house of the governor of Pa Tra, his life was indeed despised, he had to take the place of a cow that was eaten by a tiger. And the tears on his darkened cheeks were tears of bitterness, loneliness, helplessness, and despair. However, we can see that there is a very strong resistance in A Phu, which has been raised since childhood.

He was beaten during the trial because he committed a crime, but when he lost the cow, he was ready to take the blame and he believed that he would catch the tiger. Tied from foot to shoulder, but at night he bent down or broke two ropes, he found a way to free himself. At the same time, when he was saved by Me, he was exhausted, because of several days of being tied up, suffering from hunger, thirst, and pain.

But because death would soon come, he struggled to get up and run to escape the shackles of the governor, from the life of slavery. When Mi followed and wanted to go with A Phu, A Phu let Me follow, he not only saved himself but also saved Me.

After leaving the governor’s house, A Phu found a new land to live in. Here, he, like many other people, suffered a very miserable life due to the oppression of the feudal colonialists, but when he met revolutionary cadres, he quickly became a revolutionary, a captain. brave guerrilla, who represents the great revolutionary ability of the people of the Northwest mountainous region. The image when A Phu was enlightened to the revolutionary truth is a beautiful image, not only of A Phu but also of the people in the Northwest.

With his talented pen and delicate description, To Hoai has highlighted the image and mettle of A Phu – a typical character in the story. Along with A Phu is Me, although they were oppressed, they had to always fight for happiness, they had to go through many hardships and bitterness to liberate themselves with their own rebellious strength.