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In “The Mountain,” Eli Claire, American writer, lists the harsh condtions that the disabled people are facing, including the important aspect in life, such as education, working opportunities, and personal care and moreover, they also have to take the pressure from other people’s stereotypes, negative attitudes, and even oppression (2). Yu Xiuhua, a poetess from a village in Hubei Province, faces the same plight, which is described vividly in the documentary film, Still Tomorrow. The documentaty film reflects Yu’s living conditions and the conflicts she had with her ex-husband and her parents. Suffering from cerebral palsy, Yu takes poems as the weapon and her quiet spiritual world to fight for and gain her freedom despite her physical disability and mental oppression from the people around her.
Confined by her physical condition, Yu finds comfort and inner peace through poems. Due to her physical conditions, Yu has to face the struggles that the other able-bodied people do not have to face: She was arranged to marry a man she does not love because her parents believed it was important for her to have a “complete family.” The loveless marriage was sure to bring her much agony. Unable to find comfort from the external world, writing poems becomes the solution to the problem. The agony sharpens her heart and makes it more sensitive to the external world. The sensitivity, in turn, grants her the power to express the agony and find comfort and peace. Poems become her spiritual paradise. The comfort and peace are transferred to the hearts of her poem readers, sharing the same comfort and peace.
Yu’s physical condition also builds her character and reinforces her desire to fight for her freedom. “If the body is the Other of text, then textual representation seeks access to that which it is least able to grasp” (Mitchell and Snyder 64). Yu’s living environment and the plight she is facing limit her freedom, which makes her desire for freedom stronger than other people. That is why she would divorce her husband at all expenses despite the almost twenty years of marriage, despite the strong objection from her parents, who had tried to bring her the “normality” as the people in the village generally accept. The “normality” is, in fact, another confinement to her - she had to swallow the pains brought by it. The torture of it makes her tougher, as is said by Nietzsche, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” (Taleb 91). In Still Tomorrow, Yu says, “I have never experienced love, and I will not resign to the condition.” The hard struggles she has experienced and is experiencing contribute to her courage to express herself bravely.
Through the story of Yu, what does it mean to be free? To her, freedom may mean to be free from the loveless marriage. But to the higher level, freedom means to obey one’s free will, not conforming to the generally accepted “normality,” as Yu says in the documentary film, “men and women, who can follow their heart and do what they like to do, are the winners of life.
Works Cited
Claire, Eli. “The Mountain.” n.d. http://courses.washington.edu/intro2ds/Readings/8_
Clare-mountain.pdf. Accessed 4 May 2017.
Mitchell, David T., and Sharon L. Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis. The University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. The Random House Publishing Group, 2012.