INTRODUCTION

Lu Xun (1881--1936), whose hometown is Shaoxing, Zhejiang, is a great modern litterateur, ideologist and revolutionist. His family name is Zhou; his given name is Shuren; and his sobriquet is Yucai. “Lu Xun” is a pen name used after the May 4th new culture movement. Because his writings under this pen name have a great influence, people are used to calling him Lu Xun.

He was a diligent student, liked raising questions, had a very good memory and in 1902, Lu Xun graduated with excellent marks and with a government scholarship, he went to Tokyo to attend the Kobun Gakuin to study Japanese. Later, he attended Sendai Medical School to study medicine. Lu Xun was deeply influenced by the bourgeois democratic revolution and took an active part in the anti-Qing Dynasty revolution.

He united and led many revolutionary, progressive literary and artistic workers to fight against imperialism, feudalism, and the Kuomintang government and its writer’s measure for measure. With tenacity, he stuck to the struggle and wrote hundreds of essays, which made great contributions and were like daggers and guns in the anti-culture encirclement and suppression. He kept in close contact with party members of the CPC and firmly supported the National United Front of Resistance against Japan proposed by the CPC. He compared himself to “fire stealer,” committing himself to the Sino-foreign culture exchange and advocated the burgeoning woodcarving movement. He was concerned about young people, cultivated them, and dedicated much to the growth of young writers. Lu Xun died in Dalu Xincun flat in Shanghai on October 19, 1936.

Lu Xun wrote and translated more than 8 million characters. Many of his works such as Outcry, Hesitation, Wild Grass, Morning Blossoms and Plucked at Dusk are reprinted again and again and have been translated into many languages which include English, Russian, German, French, Japanese, and Esperanto and so on. The Complete Works of Lu Xun is a precious gift that he left to Chinese people and people all over the world. His writing The Incident is a short story full of meaning. It is particularly relevant to our daily lives during the times when we are so eager to become courteous, considerate and caring people instead of being selfish and thoughtless.

SUMMARY:

(Set in China more than 50 years ago)

An educated young man from the upper social class learns a valuable lesson in human caring from a simple rickshaw man. It was late midnight when the educated man and the rickshaw man suddenly stop on their way, for an old woman seemingly just crossed on their way. It's not on the pedestrian lane that's why the rickshaw man stopped over to attend the old woman.

The old woman was hurt and do have some bruises in her arms but was not seriously injured. “Let’s go, leave her there and come. It's already late” educated young man said. But the rickshaw men shrug his head and go on helping the old woman. He accompanied her to stand up and walk her to the gate where the old woman's heading for.

The educated man anxiously and irritated looking at them was thinking that there was a malicious act happening to them. He concludes so fast by merely what he saw. And when the rickshaw man is heading his way toward him it seems like he's becoming a giant, he continue growing bigger and bigger” am I hallucinating?” ask the educated young man to himself, he was about to scream when a policeman approached him, saying he cannot ride to the rickshaw man anymore.

So, he took out some money and hand it over to the police officers asking them to give it to the rickshaw man, his payment.

Right after that incident, the young man was able to realize his uncertain act. The incident happened to change his whole perception in life into something better.

TYPE OF BOOK:

An Incident” is a story of realization. It is a product of imaginative literature; it inspires people to be more human and gregarious with the people in the community and even in the world. It’s obviously a change of character into full access of wisdom, realizing things within his grasp, within his hold, and within his parameter. Finally, it is the psychology of life that every human person resembles another persona who works for a change- that persona leads oneself to create another figure that contrasts the other and that is what happens to the character in the story.

STYLE AND MANNER:

The story was written an diary form, for which it might really be based from a true experience of Lu Xun (writer). It courageously showed an attitude that everyone do certainly posses, giving judgment without intrusion. The words used to describe the scenario were simple; readers didn't have a hard time to look for the meaning of words being used.

EFFECT TO THE MIND:

It helped me also realized things, also be sensitive in my surroundings. While reading the story, thought it was a little bit of horror but I was definitely wrong. I got curious what happened to the rickshaw man after he was paid by the young man. But the most important is that, it had left me the idea that judgment comes last not first.

EFFECT TO THE EMOTION: I was left hanging with the notion that was the young man really regrets what he had done? I'm trying to put myself in the situation, that what if I am the old woman, will I not burst out and be calm just as what she did in the story? I doubt, and it's a good thing in my part. How about being judge by a friend or someone you don't know? It’s seriously and irritatingly hurt, that's the whole truth.

EFFECT TO THE CHARACTER:

CONCLUSION/ RECOMMENDATION:

The character thinks of himself as something different from the people he meets in any affairs of state that leads him to feel distrust. Yet, as he begins to be entwined by self-renewal and self-change, he becomes another he and another. That incident of him keeps another pace of his life that teaches him shame, urging him to reform, and giving him fresh courage and hope.

It lacks conversational dialogue in which some of the ideas were left unsaid or was not well given justification. I also suggest a name for the characters to avoid character confusion, it is sometimes one of the reason why some readers cannot comprehend in any material they're reading.