Zhu family story
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Piggybook (English)
The Story of the Zhu Family (Medium)
Author: [English] Anthony Brown
Publisher: Hebei Education Press
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Zhu family story
This is really a picture book that makes shrimp and shrimp cry and laugh at the same time, but also fall into deep thinking.
Let's first look at the cover, the picture of the mother carrying the father and the two children, metaphorically the burden of the whole family falling on the mother. Both the father and the child smiled happily, only the mother bent over without a hint of a smile.
Mr. Zhu's family has 4 people,
There is a car and a house.
Every morning and evening,
Whether it's a dad or a child,
It's all the same sentence,
"Rice, hurry up!"
This picture is not familiar, is it a true portrayal of countless families!
The picture of the father and son eating breakfast, the brothers with their mouths open to ask for something to eat, although Dad's face is blocked by the newspaper, but the picture of several people shouting in the newspaper is really a picture worth a thousand words.
Picture book author Anthony humorously presented Edward Munch's "Scream" style paintings in newspapers. Not only does it imply that Dad is also yelling, it's more like conveying something.
Here is a brief introduction to Munch's "Scream", the main body of the picture is an extremely painful expression against the background of blood red. He artistically presents extreme loneliness and despair to people, with sound and color, and the unity of heaven and man. "The sky is like rolling blood and fire, shocking and terrifying", it seems that the whole sky is bleeding and burning, watching the sky and bursting into tears.
Edward Munch's The Scream
When Munch walked at dusk, he saw that when the sun was about to set, the clouds were stained as red as blood, as if the end of the world, thinking of his relatives and friends who had passed away one after another, his current poverty and illness, a wave of sadness surged into his heart, standing stupidly by the railing, feeling inexplicable terror and trembling, and there seemed to be a cry that shook the universe in nature. That's what inspired The Scream.
Compared to dads and kids who enjoy their success
Mom washed the dishes and did housework every day
Take care of them comfortably
Mom worked non-stop every day, from morning to night, and had to go to work at the same time. The pictures of the mother appear as simple gray figures, with their heads bowed, buried in hard work, and no expression. In stark contrast, both dad and kids are shiny.
The fathers and children in the picture book attend classes and classes that they think are important every day, but they are completely unable to take care of themselves. And the mother not only has to work every day, but also has to do all kinds of housework, doing housework because of the market economy price created by not going to work, and is often despised.
This reminds Shrimp shrimp of a recently watched Japanese drama "Don't Say Reasoning", which has a small story. A police officer quarreled with his pregnant wife, and much of the couple's conflict focused on the redistribution of family tasks. The officer thought, "I've helped her take out the garbage, and she always complains that I don't help." The word "help" vividly shows the attitude of the police officer, and it turns out that in his eyes, the housework should be the wife's. What is even more ridiculous is that the police officer's so-called garbage dumping is nothing more than taking the garbage sorted out by his wife downstairs. His wife, on the other hand, needs to go through a series of tedious processes such as garbage collection and garbage sorting, and has not received a word of thanks from her husband. Life is like this, only from another perspective to know each other's difficulties.
Finally one day Mom disappeared
When Mom left a note
Say father and son three "you are pigs"!
They really all turned into pigs
Not only make yourself dirty
I also made my home the same as a pigsty
Pigs are delicious and lazy animals, and Anthony's use of pigs as a metaphor for father and son is perfect. The image of the pig in the picture book also appears little by little, at first it only appears on the packaging of the drink box, and then the father's shadow becomes the pig's head, and the button becomes the pattern of the pig's nose. After that, the picture of the pig is more and more, pig brooch, pig door handle, pig head wallpaper.
Anthony said, "When I draw, I like to add small things. Readers often ignore them when they read them for the first time, and after reading them a few more times, they will make new discoveries. He hid many small details in each painting, and when we look at the picture book, it is like we are looking for treasure, and every time we read it, we are overjoyed. Readers of this picture book, let's also look for those pigs!
Until Mom came back
After they confessed their mistakes, they began to divide their work and cooperate
Tidy up the housework
Only to become a normal person
Everything is back to normal, great! Finally come back to mom, she fixed the car.
Mom put on bright clothes and smiled happily.
In the opening scene, the car belongs to Dad's sphere of influence, driving and repairing cars and this kind of mechanical-related work is often easily considered a man's specialty, and then at the end of the story, Mom also crosses the rigid gender thinking in the scope of work. Mom repaired the car that was good on the surface, and it also implied that she had repaired this family that was bright on the outside but had many problems on the inside.
The interesting images in the picture book not only serve as entertainment or decoration, but also contain the content of the story. Like the two paintings in the book, did you find them?
One is dutch painter Frans Hals's "Smiling Cavalry", in which the radiant knight is painted as a pig's head and pig's brain.
One of the most famous portraits in history is this masterpiece by Hals, which exudes a surprising sense of freshness and intimacy. Hals uses his flamboyant technique to create an animated, unforgettable image with the model's cheerful and proud expression and posture.
The other is the English painter Thomas Gansborough's The Andrews Couple, in which Mr. Andrews becomes a pig's head and the mistress disappears. This also hints at the development of the story.
Through novel compositions, soft and coordinated color treatments, the author depicts a couple resting from hunting in the afternoon.
Anthony's picture book uses super realistic painting techniques to depict every scene and every object in the picture in a nuanced and vivid way. At the same time, those fantastic changes lurk in all corners of the picture, so that we have different discoveries and experiences every time we look at it.
The concept of male and female protagonists seems to be not only the traditional Chinese family ethics, the phenomenon of mothers handling all the clutter in the home is universal, and Anthony Brown, with his unique humor, guides us to think again about how to deal with the division of labor and sharing of family chores.
In the story, the transformation of the two little boys also reminds us once again that in family life, the mother brings meticulous love and care to the child, but it is often the father who has a decisive influence on the behavior of the child, especially the boy.
Thinking of talk show actress Zhang Cailing, she wrote in a letter to her daughter that a family is supported by the joint efforts of father and mother, there is no such thing as who is strong and who is weak, and the two should be equal in relationship.
If she bears the main source of income for the family, she cannot think that she is superior; if the other party bears the main financial source of the family, she does not have to think of inferiority. Since marriage and children form a family, there must be a different division of labor in this family, and there will never be a distinction between noble and inferior in the division of labor in the family. A couple, only if they can see each other's efforts and respect each other's family status, can the family be truly harmonious and beautiful.
Finally, with a song "Warm Home" as the end of today's day. There is no right or wrong in family affairs, only love or not love, understand or not. There is no dispute between right and wrong, home and talent are all prosperous.
"Warm Home"
I have a warm home
There are mom and dad who love me at home
Dad amused me
Mom's arms were warm
Happy life giggle
Mom and Dad held my hand
Stride forward
No matter how big the wind and rain, I will not be afraid
Surround me every day
I want to grow up healthy and happy
Growing up honored my beloved mom and dad
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