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1. Biography of writer Duy Khanh - author of the short story Lao xao
- Biography, life: Duy Khanh's full name is Nguyen Duy Khanh, born in Que Vo district, Bac Ninh city, into a poor peasant family. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and fled from the French-controlled area to join the Viet Minh. During military service, due to his high education, he was assigned to teach, then transferred to work as a battlefield reporter for the Army Broadcasting program. In 1972, he became an editor at the Military Literature Magazine and spent a long time living and working in the Truong Sa archipelago.
- Personality of Duy Khanh: Gentle, once dubbed as 'the gentlest person in the country'. There are many anecdotes about Duy Khanh when he's drunk, for example, 'When drunk, Duy Khanh often reads poetry, mainly his own, and also cries a lot' or once on a mission in Ca Mau, he fell into muddy mud due to excessive drinking while crossing a monkey bridge, unlike others who get angry easily when drunk, he responded in verse: 'Falling down, beloved, yet it's still earth / The earth here, so endearing and soft'...
- Creative career:
+ Representative works: Poetry - Confessions of a Wanderer, New Battle; the silent childhood, etc.,
+ Among them, the memoir The silent childhood is the most outstanding work, considered as the 'essence of a literary life of Duy Khanh' writing about his own childhood memories, marking a turning point from poetry to prose. The work is loved by many readers and highly praised by the professional critics. Critic Tran Bao Hung once commented: 'The thin book with less than 200 pages contains dozens of short stories, some of which are not even a page long, but each story is touching, as if distilled from the flesh and blood of the author'. Literary critic Vuong Tri Nhan said that the memoir made Duy Khanh '...Return from a person easily swayed by current affairs topics to deeply embed in childhood memories and become firmly entrenched in the mind.'.
2. Work Lao xao
a) Origin
- The text is excerpted from the memoir The silent childhood by Duy Khanh, published in 1986 and awarded the Writers' Association Prize in 1987.
b) Overview of the value of content, art of the Lao xao story
- Value of content:
+ Duy Khanh portrayed a vivid picture of the nature in the northern countryside when early summer arrives, with vibrant colors, rich sounds; especially the world of birds in the countryside is abundant, diverse, showing distinctive characteristics, unique that only in Duy Khanh's writings, can one feel the loveliness of them.
+ Through the work, we can feel that the author is extremely knowledgeable about the countryside, understands the world of animals, understands nature,... has a keen observational talent, skill, and a deep love for nature, homeland, and country.
- Artistic value:
+ Seamless combination of narrative and description methods.
+ Use of personification, vivid descriptive language, and evocative imagery help the natural world appear extremely lively, interesting.
+ Flexibly apply folk materials such as nursery rhymes, proverbs, folk tales to enrich the emotional story, attracting readers.
Surely the article Summarizing the value of content and art of the story Ripple we introduce above has somewhat supported students in summarizing the knowledge about this short story. You can also refer to some sample summaries of other texts compiled in the document Grade 6 Literature such as: Summarizing the content and art of the story Gathered; Summarizing the value of content and outstanding art of the story Cà Mau Water Region; Summarizing the content and art of the story Bác không ngủ Tonight; Summarizing the value of content and art of the story Cô Tô; Summarizing the value of content and art of the story Last Class, remember to read.
