As is depicted in the illustration,a peculiar football match is being played on the court.In the center,an aged father crouches into a football,looking miserable,helpless while in front of the four gates stand his four children,who are glaring and playing as goalkeepers,well prepared to "block out" the "football".The phenomenon showed in the cartoon is uncommon and remains thought-provoking!
The cartoon,undoubtedly,can be interpreted in a symbolic manner.Far from being an individual case,it serves as a painful reminder of the tensions between the young,ungrateful generation and their aged,needy parents.As the world grows increasingly money-oriented, there is no lack of ungrateful, egoistic, heartless youngsters, whose philosophy of life can be summarized as "material desires dominate". The exclusive concern of their life has been reduced to material comfort and sensual pleasure.Neglect of parents merely serves as an added testimony to their selfishness.
As far as I am concerned,piety and gratefulness towards parents,considered as traditional virtues in our Chinese culture by many reasonable men,are indispensable qualities for humanity. Accordingly, the young are supposed to pay back parents' love by making their later years enjoyable and comfortable.What's more,we should appeal to our governments to make concrete lows to protect the parent's legal rights and punish the impiety and ungratefulness,as represented here by the four mean souls,and more in society.Only with love, compassion, and gratefulness, could one live happily and completely, as Sigmund Freud, the distinguished psychologist,notes.