The story's enigmatic ending: "Save the children!" (p. 31) may be in line with the youthful ethos of the May Fourth thinkers. These revolutionaries called for the creation of an entirely new Chinese culture, based on globalized Western standards, especially in the fields of democracy and science. Beyond addressing a specific historical situation, the story is characterized by a deep sense and sensitivity to the deceptions often involved in human social life. The narrator questions the nature of these events and asks “So this is wrong? So why is this happening?" (p. 27) He returns to relying on history to distinguish the boundaries between what has happened in the last “four thousand years” (p. 31) and further insinuates that although cannibalism has been part of history and it is "written in all the books" (p. 27), "does that make it right?" (p. 27) The constant asking of questions further illuminates the narrator's struggle to accept what is happening, this is the key to the structure of the diary. In agreement with the narrative structure of both texts, the Russian literary critic Zsuzsa Hetényi also writes about the importance of examining the structure on the novel of Babel. She comments on the importance of investigating “the position of the narrator and the narrative relationship highly complex between the author