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Lingkuan Gorge

The document summarizes a lecture about the story "Lingkuan Gorge". It describes a chief who is trying to reach a construction site through difficult terrain. He finds shelter in a cave where he meets a young boy, Cheng-Yu, who is caring for his sleeping sister alone. Cheng-Yu refuses the chief's offer of help, saying his parents taught him "a man should never leave his post". Inspired by the boy's sense of duty, the chief continues on his own journey.

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Lingkuan Gorge

The document summarizes a lecture about the story "Lingkuan Gorge". It describes a chief who is trying to reach a construction site through difficult terrain. He finds shelter in a cave where he meets a young boy, Cheng-Yu, who is caring for his sleeping sister alone. Cheng-Yu refuses the chief's offer of help, saying his parents taught him "a man should never leave his post". Inspired by the boy's sense of duty, the chief continues on his own journey.

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Lingkuan Gorge

Lecture # 1

 Theme
 Sublime ideas about work
 Hardships in the way of
performing one’s duties
 Courage to face
 Never to surrender before
hardships
Message

 We should perform our duty honestly


 We should never leave our post
 We should never leave the duty
assigned to us
 This story (LINGKUAN GORGE)
teaches us the sense of duty and
devotion of a nation
Summary
Narrator’s job and purpose of
journey
 Chief of the materials department tried to
reach to a place
 Where construction work was underway
for future railway
 This was a hard area
 Even in clear weather entering this gorge
was very difficult and risky
Physical conditions persuading to
rest

 High hills and the sky was not visible


 The way was dark and zigzag
 He wanted to find some place under a cliff
to rest for a while
 Stumbling around in such a dark like this,
he was liable to fall into some deep ravine
 That would end his life
Cheng-yu’s age
Why isn’t anybody home?

 He saw a path leading to a big cave


 Grasping branches along its steep path
 He hauled himself up to the mouth of the
cave and entered
 He found a little boy of seven or eight
years sitting on a small stool
 “Aren’t I anybody, Uncle?”
Lecture # 2
Character of Cheng-yu
Attitude to parents and
responsibility
 He told his name as Cheng-Yu
 Another child was sleeping deep
 It was the duty of this little boy to look
after his baby sister in the absence of his
mother
 Sensible, strong, bold and determined
 Has a greater sense of responsibility
His parents’ jobs

 Hard working and very true to their


professions
 His mother was controlling the traffic
down on a busy road
 His father opens up mountains drill holes
for dynamite charges
 The chief looked and he saw lights on the
far off mountains
 He also saw his mother who was standing
and directing traffic
Explanation for refusing narrator’s
advice
 The boy was dozing
 The chief asked him to sleep and take rest
but he refused
 He told the chief that he had been told by
his parents
 “A man should never leave his post”
 The chief was deeply moved by the
remark of little child
Narrator’s action and realization

 He hugged the child and left the cave


 The words of the little child were echoing
in his ears
 His duty was to reach his destination
 And perform his duty because “A man
should never leave his post”.
Change in mood
Ideas about work
Moralistic
 Mood changes from pessimistic to optimistic
 One should be dutiful
 “A man should never leave his post”
 One should never be as vulnerable as to be
defeated by physical conditions
 One should be dutiful and obedient to his
parents
 Yes, the writer is skillful to present the truth
and importance of the duty

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