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Introduction
Su Tong is a pen name of Tong Zhonggui. He was born in 1963 in Suzhou and now living in Nanjing with his family. Su Tong is not only a greater writer which 20th century last stages appears, but also he is the representative writer of the vanguard literature and is one of the founders of "neo-historicism" novel (Jing). Vanguard literature is a kind of literature, which is against the traditional culture and deliberate violation of the principles of conventional creation and appreciation of the literary habits, and one-sided pursuit of artistic form and style of the novel. As usually, the vanguard literature writers through different kind of suggests, metaphor, symbol, association and imagery to explore people's inner life. …show more content…

In other words, in the normal novel, story is written arranged from cause, development, and climax to result. Each part is one by one, but in spatial structure, each section is parallel, which means that they are all in the same level and only scheduled by the point order. Otherwise, the story of “To Escape” also can be analysis two spaces, which are external and internal space. The external space is that story is told by first-person narrators “I” and “I” talk about the story about my uncle and his wife. The internal space is story told by Chen Sanmai’s and his wife, which are included their person experience and emotion.

Symbolic Meaning of the Kites
Escape is the basic tone in “To Escape”. The novel shows that escape is a state of survival of human beings. In this story, the author Su Tong through Chen Sanmai’s three times escapes to show human being’s contradictions and lost about escape and return. In the novel, Chen Sanmai’s first escape is escape from his wife, family and hometown to other place. At this time, he wants to escape from his old life. When his wife doubts that he have some venereal disease, he feels misunderstanding and loneliness in his heart. He tries to resistance and escape from this kind of misunderstanding and loneliness, but he fails. Nobody wants try to understand him and share his feeling, ever his wife. When the individual is suppressed, marginalized, in and resistance in the failure of a particular environment, the first reaction is to

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