Analyzing Waiting By Ha Jin
Communist China uses propaganda and force to hide the truth from the public, as well as controlling them in a sense. Ha Jin writes Waiting and in this book he comments and portrays communist China in great detail. Waiting’s main character, Lin Kong, is commonly criticized as indecisive and unable to love. In an interview published in Asia Week in 1999, Ha Jin comments on Lin’s inability to love:
allegorically…sum up a sort of internal psychological damage to the Chinese… the Revolution was to disable people so they can’t love others…
so that psychological energy, sexual energy or creative energy could be focused on the revolutionary cause.
After a successful revolution, China retains a strict code of laws, that if broken, the consequences may be too severe. Ha Jin depicts this strict code of laws through the military hospital that Lin works at. Everyone’s lifestyles must be the true and fair, any exceptions are dealt with severely. In the novel Lin falls in......
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