The Conflicts and Awakeness of Self-awareness -- On the Character of Sun Shaoping in the Ordinary World

Abstract

In the decades since The Ordinary World came out, scholars in the literary world have never stopped exploring it, because it is a masterpiece that has inspired generations of young people to struggle with difficulties in their life. Firstly, this paper selects the character of Sun Shaoping in the book as an example. Then, on the basis of author Lu Yao's background and several characters in the book who are closely related to Sun Shaoping, the paper analysed the reasons for the creation of character to deeply investigate what kind of factors and environments contribute to the formation of this self-awareness. Finally, all the efforts is to reveal the conflicts and self-awareness of character’s inner world.