Today in history: Morse's telegram was tested successfully for the first time in 1838.
One sentence: three or two words, carved into wires, thousands of turns.
Most of the novels of the devil are concerned with the life encounters of people at the bottom of society, and through the pain and helplessness of small people, they awaken people's care for conscience, morality and dignity, and sympathy for fate.
In "The River Drenched in Rain", what forces the protagonist Xiaolei to die is a harsh reality everywhere: in order to retain the labor boss can deduct the wages of the workers out of thin air, and this has formed unwritten rules; the management bible of the factory is attached to the insult of personality that tears off dignity; the salary of the village teacher is withheld by the director of the Education Bureau to run a company...
At the end of the century of the commodity economy, fairness and justice have become "castles in the air", in this strange and ever-changing modern society, Xiao Lei left the unchanged way of life arranged for him by his father in a way that hurt his father's feelings, and it was also the first "betrayal" of himself at the juncture of life, laying the evil consequences of death for him!
He dared to break into the world, and the world repaid a growing young man with a vicious injustice. A wine bottle smashed the quarry owner to death in order to get back the justice he had worked hard for three months without getting anything.
"Another migrant worker who does not kneel" a plot, Xiao Lei is brave and strong, not confused by money, not impressed by the boss's obscenity, and is a man with flesh and blood and integrity.
When he learned that his fathers' meagre wages had even been withheld by the Education Bureau, which represented the country's justice, the darkness and hatred of this society made him stand up, and he was not afraid of being weak, and he did not hesitate to hit the stone with a pebble, and finally lost his young life in the dark.
He died not under the sanction of the law, but in the path of light and justice he pursued. Just think, is Xiao Lei's betrayal wrong?
Xiao Lei himself did not like to read, he "read very irresponsibly" his middle school, "anyway, I am not interested." "A person who doesn't like to read and has no interest in normal schools, can he be a good teacher?"
After graduating from junior high school, he did not gamble money to quarrel and kill people like other young people in the village, but instead made a living to work in Guangdong. Betraying the father is a courageous act of the children seeking their own life path, and a bold act of showing their own survival ability and value.
Society, on the other hand, treats a sincere, upright young man with the dark side of "unrighteousness." This is the sadness of the culture of the times, and it is the anger that stirs people up!
The "new" atmosphere of the society of the times injected new vitality into the children, and in order to obtain their own living space and value, they escaped from the control and expectation of the father who raised them, and pulled the father who was out of touch with the times from his position of majesty and inviolability.
Betraying his father is the need of the development of the times, and when he plays his own music and songs under the civilization of the times, he is constantly creating sad songs of himself and others.
While affirming their betrayal, I can't help but ponder the cultural situation in the new era, and I can't help but think: Is betrayal a double-edged sword?
The change of the times forced the children to betray their fathers, and there is a taste of "the officials force the people to rebel, and the people have to rebel", which is an objective reason, and the ideological gap between the two generations is the root of the betrayal between the father and the children.
Two different eras and different cultural concepts determine the different ways of thinking of the two generations.
Fathers who have lived in the countryside for a long time are deeply influenced by traditional rural culture, their thinking is relatively conservative, and their personality is thick, honest and cowardly.
At the same time, under the influence of thousands of years of "filial piety" culture, they also maintain stubborn and stubborn patriarchal ideas. Influenced or influenced by the new culture of the new era, children cannot stand in the current society according to the father's thoughts, and if the children want to gain their freedom of speech and show their self-worth, they must betray from the ideas to which their fathers belong.
To betray one's father is to betray this old ideology. Thus, the father was given two roles in the narrative at the end of the century. One is the rigid executor of old ideas.
Their preservation of these antiquated cultures has caused tragedy after tragedy. Li Si has many opportunities to clarify himself to his children, as long as he says the memories he shares with his children, then there will be no conflicts such as "forgetting his birthday" and "looking for memories", and there will be no tragedy in the life of his children who killed their parents, and there will be no such flesh and blood betrayal.
It is Li Si's stubbornness of "they don't recognize, why should I say" that can't let go of the "patriarchal" shelf in feudal culture for thousands of years, and his rural patriarchy will inevitably have no place in the modern city where "you shout with pleasure".
In the narratives of these texts, the father's stubbornness is both abhorrent and regrettable. The image of the child is loving and sympathetic. Another role of the father is that of a victim of old ideas.
In them we see the cowardice of traditional culture, how the people are killed by traditional culture, and see another reason for the subversion of order.
Chen Cun in "The River Wet by the Rain", he walks in a circle forever like an old clock, unable to walk out of the changes of the times. He was conservative in his thinking, guarding a closed way of life like a peasant guarding the land, and hoping that his children would do the same.
As a teacher, he did not understand his son's rebellion, did not educate his children well, let his son die in the way to avenge him, let his daughter fall into a shameful wrapper, and he finally fell into the riverbed and could not get up again.
The tragic end of the younger generation by betraying their fathers is fundamentally because our society is in some deep ways a cultural and psychological riverbed constructed by fathers like Chen Cun.
Chen Cun is industrious, simple, and kind, but Chen Cun is ignorant and cowardly, and lacks the rationality that a modern legal society should have. It is precisely because of a teacher like Chen Cun, such a father, that there will be the lawlessness of the Education Bureau, the unscrupulousness of the bureau chief, and the betrayal of the children.
In the face of such a father, we often summarize it as "mourning his misfortune and angering him." Correspondingly, the image of our children makes us applaud and regret.