Both Lu Xun’s “New Year’s Sacrifice” and Han Shaogong’s “Homecoming” have successfully explored the theme of hometown and homecoming. Consider the significance and symbolic implications of “hometown” in these two stories. How do these two authors use homecoming as a narrative device to explore their main protagonists’ identity crisis (“I,” the first person narrator in Lu Xun’s “New Year’s Sacrifice,” and Huang Zhixian in Han Shaogong’s “Homecoming”). How do the authors respond to their respective historical and cultural circumstances?