The feelings I have after finished reading Jian-Zhen's prose "The deer turns round" I have the full text of Jian-Zhen's prose "The deer turns round" in hand. It is surely a nice prose, which won the third prize of Liang Shi-Qiu memorial Literary Awards in 1990. I make a brief introduction about this prose and key in my little feelings for it. Except the first, the last three of the first part, the last three paragraphs, the content of the full article of eleven pages is chiefly about how she took care of him, the conversation between she and he, and her thoughts and sentiments she had in the daily life of those years, but they are by no means trivial or boring; Jian wants to display her ideal and concept through all these small things. Through her elegant sentences with good rhetorical embroidery, she shows her thoughtfulness in the presentation of literary ideas. This prose is divided into four parts, all of the four are mainly about the intimate relationship between the narrator in it and her younger cousin. Jain-Zhen disposes eight tittles in it for the presentation of the full article, 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 in order. 0 is regarded as the narrator's own experiences in her growing up and her own inner world, and 1234 represent the experience of her younger cousin's growing up and the conversations and mutual interactions between them in his and her different ages. The chief purpose of the whole article is just the reverse of the title. "The deer is unable to come back", "The deer will never come back". Deer runs scatteringly on the land, and it is symbolic of purity and unsophiscatedness rooted in primitive mind. This simplicity would be faded away or even rotted as one grows older. Her younger cousin is just an example of it. His parents are always working and seldom well accompany him, but only try to satisfy him with a good material life such as toys. She, who is his cousin and much older than him, has taken care of him for a long painstaking efforts and thoughtfulness, and feels like to be his mother and love him. But finally he is taken out of the country to the U.S., and will never come back, and the love between them originally is finally in vain. This prose really displays her ideal about the spirit of maternity. Maybe it's the reason why she could win the first prize of Shi-Bao literary awards two years later by the article titled "She who is mother". The meaning of the first paragraph is fairly obscure at the first sight. It is as follows: "There exists one place, where the wind flickers the grass in the field. The pregnant fern have gave birth to the spores. The wind brings the infant spores to go traveling. Some fall on vegetable wives; some gluse to black coats of swallows; some flow into the brook. River, alike a thousand of vagabonds playing the flute, accompanies .... Will spore infants bounce out from the aperture of the flute holes, bites on the edge of clothes, comes back to their mother ferns finally ?" Her prose are almost impossible to read very smoothly, and the sentences in them are full of poetic feelings which enlighten us and instill goodness into readers. That's the feature of Jian-Zhen's proses. There are also other sentences with poetic feelings in the whole article. These sort of sentences may be the most precious sentences in proses. .. --

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