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"My Uncle Hule" is a classic short story created by the French writer Maupassant, and the story bears witness to an old Chinese saying through the perspective of "I" - "Poor in the street no one asks, rich in the mountains have distant relatives." The excerpt of Hule is old and desolate, and "my" father and mother, in order to avoid this "poor scoundrel", hastily end the trip and change to the Saint-Malo and return home worriedly.
This story can be called a classic of realist creation, light and dark lines, and finally crossed, because of its delicate and vivid character portrayal, it was selected and compiled into the middle school textbook. Unfortunately, the inclusion of teaching materials will inevitably "reprocess" the original text and guide the reader in terms of ideological content, so the deleted part of the article "My Uncle Hule" has a slight deviation from the "soul" in the original text.
The textbook focuses on the completely different psychological activities of philippes and his wife in the face of the fall of Hule, and profoundly reveals the social values of capitalism's "pure money relations", but in addition to the criticism of the morality of "money first", many of the character details in the original text, including the deleted beginning and end, are more profound in their exploration and enlightenment of human nature.
The story begins with joseph as an adult who was born into a not-so-wealthy family with two sisters who could not marry, and whose mother was very dissatisfied with the status quo and often sneered at his father, so that his father often looked ashamed.
The family had a customary ritual of appearing on the seawall every Sunday dressed up, solemnly looking at the ships sailing back from distant countries, and repeating the unchanged words hundreds of times: "If the good brother Hule is on this ship, how surprising it would be." ”
Before Hule became a righteous and kind brother, Joseph heard from his family that his uncle Hule was a "prodigal son" who had wasted the family's money.
It is said that he behaved very improperly, that is, he once squandered some money, which is the greatest of the sins in the poor family. In the homes of rich people, eating and drinking alone is nothing more than stupidity and absurdity. Everyone laughed and giggled and called him a playboy. In a difficult family, if a person forces his parents to move the old book, he is a villain, a rogue, a scoundrel. Although things are the same thing, it is still right to distinguish them in this way, because the quality of behavior can only be determined by the outcome. In short, after Uncle Hule had eaten up the part of his inheritance that he deserved, he had greatly reduced the part that my father had expected.
Uncle Hule is a person who does not do the right thing, and the original text "because of the good or bad behavior, only the result can be determined" shows that Yule may not be too bad in the eyes of ordinary people, and even get some sympathy and pity, but he was born in a family that was not rich, but because of his confusion and absurdity, his brother's family also fell into a worse situation, and such a result showed that he was a bad egg.
In poor families, profligacy is the biggest taboo. Therefore, in childhood, Joseph tore his pants, or lost his buttons would cause a stink, and philip's family chose not to participate in any dinner invitations in order to reduce unnecessary social expenses, so as not to return the invitation, and the sisters to be married could only wear their own skirts, and even lace seemed extremely luxurious. In such a family, Joseph was like a burdensome burden, enough to crush an already crumbling home.
After Hule was sent to the Americas, he made a small fortune for some reason, and wrote to philippe saying that he hoped to compensate for the losses caused to Philip's family because of this "lost and returning", and Philip's family re-"accepted" Hule as a righteous and kind brother.
However, the brother's so-called return was only a letter, and one day two years later, philippe's family received another letter from Hule because he was going on a long trip, to be heard from for a long time, and to paint a big cake for Philip's family.
"I met him in the Americas last year and brought him back home. He is said to have relatives in Le Havre, but he did not want to go back to them because he owed them money. His name is Hule... The surname Is Dalmance, or Darwansh, in short, a surname similar to this. I heard that he was once generous over there, but you see how far he has fallen today. ”
In just a few years, the accumulated wealth was squandered, and the elderly Hule became a poor man who peddled oysters on the ship, he could not cash in on the original pie, and he had to try to avoid the debts he owed, Hule was not a shrewd businessman, nor was he a pragmatic person who was good at accumulating wealth, and profligacy was his inferior root.
But all this from the perspective of a child, it bears witness to the parents' desperate love for their uncle Hule. The story after the "castration" makes the ragged Hule lonely and desolate in the crowd, and through joseph's eyes, he portrays a vain and powerful Philip couple in three parts.
However, looking back at the sentence "Because of the good or bad behavior, only the result can be determined", I suddenly found that there may not be all human distortions, and some of them are forced to make a living.
Many details about the life of the Philip family have been deleted from the story, and it is these details that give the story a deeper and fuller emotion.
The brother and sister-in-law regarded Hule as the "hope" and "gospel" of the whole family, and looked forward to his return every day, because before the development of Yule, the life of the Philippe family was poor to the point of unbearable, the mother often blurted out some harsh and mean words, and the father opened his hand and touched his forehead, as if to wipe away the beads of sweat that did not exist at all, and was silent, this helpless pain was the survival situation of the low-level masses in France at that time.
Knowing that Hule may return to China, the family has to go to the breakwater every week to wait for the early return of the "gospel", that kind of solemnity, eagerness and anxiety of anticipation, only the deleted details have the soul of the character.
My father, dressed in a dress, a top hat, and gloves, had my mother take her arm, and my mother dressed up in colorful colors, like a sea vessel flying the flag at the festival. The sisters were always the first to dress up shuqi and wait for the order to leave... The whole family is very grand on the road..... I still remember the dignified, dignified, and solemn demeanor of my poor parents when they walked on Sundays. They straightened their waists, straightened their legs, and walked forward with composure, as if their attitude and demeanor were related to a matter of great importance.
The embarrassment of life forced Hule to become the life-saving straw of their family, his letter became the gospel of the family, and the words that his mother often hung on her lips were: "As soon as this kind Yule returns, our situation will be different." ”
Even though Uncle Hule did not write again within ten years, Philippe's hopes grew.
In this flaccid narrative, the plot soon ushered in a moment of ups and downs, the second sister to be married was married to a local civil servant because of a letter from Uncle Hule, philip's family decided to go on vacation to the tourist resort of the poor, and on the boat Philip suddenly found that his brother who was thinking about it day and night had become an old man who sold oysters on the boat, and the situation was worse than himself, which was a fatal blow to philippes.
Emotionally devastated, the Philippes deliberately avoided the "unproductive man" and even rebuked Joseph for tipping a portion of the extra, fearing that their son-in-law would anger their daughter when they learned that the rich man Hule no longer existed, and the family fled almost into the wilderness, disillusioned and frustrated.
Why are the Philippes worried?
It is because Hule is not Hule, and Philippe is not just Philippe, he is only a reference to the hope of the poor in the fantasy, a little hope of the French people at the bottom in the desperate crisis of survival, however, ten years of waiting has become a dream bubble, and all the coming light has returned to darkness, which is a bottomless despair and fear of tomorrow, far more than the fear of being dragged down.
I never saw my father's brother again! In the future, you will see that I sometimes have to take a silver coin of five francs for food, and this is why.
In capitalist society, money-first morality overrides kinship. Joseph's childhood perspective has not yet been corrupted by society, and his innocence has become a regret in his heart because he did not shout his name and did not give warm and comforting words in the face of his uncle Hule.
Because he did not call out to his uncle, he was just the younger brother of his father in his memory.
In the innocent eyes of the child, only he sympathizes with Hule from the heart, but it stops far from here. As an adult, Joseph poured this regret into the same poor people, knowing that "holding an umbrella for others" is the most glorious side of human nature. Joseph dissolves the sadness around him with the warmth of pushing himself and others, and this rare kindness can only be felt by those who have experienced suffering and seen suffering.
There is nothing wrong with the deletion of teaching materials, after all, how can the ivory tower understand the cruelty of reality.
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