(1) Under an old tree covered with red dates in the countryside, an old man met a boy picking up dates. The old man and the young man talked very affectionately. During the conversation, the old man recalled the past events about "Jujube" and revealed his longing for his son; the boy wanted to leave "Jujube" for his father to eat, revealing his hope for his father. They are full of family affection and call their relatives to return to their hometowns and come back to themselves to eat the "jujubes" of their hometown.
(2) Only two characters appear in the whole play: the old man and the boy. The old man in the play is first of all an image of the older generation of farmers: he has worked hard all his life and never left his hometown. Now that he is old and his son has left his hometown, he continues to stay at home. The image of the old man is that of the older generation with a more universal significance: he is full of family affection and love, he cares for the next generation who have grown up, and loves the new generation who are still young; as a person who has lived in the past, he is nostalgic and traditional, Face the changes in life without losing love, without losing hope, but with a sense of loss. The boy is the image of the young new generation: he misses his father, loves the old man who cares about him, is curious and sensible, and reflects the innocent and lovely nature of children; his father has another home in the city, and he Loving chocolate and looking forward to his father bringing chocolate back shows the distinctive characteristics of the environment in which the boy grew up.
(3) The whole play is titled "Zaoer" and "Zaoer" is used throughout the play, allowing the old man and the boy to have a conversation around "Zaoer" and unfold the plot: The incident happened in a rural area. Under an old tree covered with "red dates"; the opening nursery rhyme expresses the affection of parents who love their children in "Jujube"; the boy meets the old man because of "picking up dates"; the old man invites the boy to eat "Jujube" ; The fortune teller named the old man’s son, and the fact that the son peeed when he was a child are all inseparable from "Jujube"; the old man told the boy the origin of the "Jujube tree" and "a jujube fell on the devil's helmet." , the story of the father and son surviving on "only eighty-one dates" during the famine is also inseparable from "dates"; the boy wants to take "dates" home and leave them for his father to eat; the ending The nursery rhyme "Jujube is sweet, jujube is fragrant..." echoes the opening scene. In the play, the old man's experience, emotions and even destiny are all closely related to "Zao'er"; the boy's yearning for his father is also related to "Zao'er". "Zao'er" is the clue to the plot development of the whole play and the topic of the characters' dialogue. The structure and content of the whole play are closely related to "Zao'er".
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