这部小说通过对一个命途多舛的母亲的描写,讴歌了母亲的朴素与无私。这位母亲付出所有去捍卫的那些生命最终却随着动荡的岁月卷入了中国各种政治势力及民间组织的混战。她的儿女代表着各自的阵营在家庭中展开争夺和厮杀,却给予母亲难以消解、无法承受的现实:刀枪相向的战乱、白发人送黑发人的痛苦以及对单传的废人儿子的担心和焦虑。但此次节选的小节是一个母亲在穷途末路时 The novel, through a portrayal of a well-versed mother, sang the mother’s simplicity and selflessness. Those mothers who devoted all their lives to defending eventually became entangled in the melee of various political forces and non-governmental organizations in China with turmoil. Her sons and daughters, representing their camps fighting and fighting in the home, gave her mother an unmanageable and unbearable reality: the war of confrontation with armed forces, the suffering of white-haired men and the fear of solitary son-bents anxiety. However, this section of the excerpt is a mother at a dead end