Text/Du Dou Bean
Creative Skills (5): Create ups and downs to enhance the expression effect.
The book "Grass House", from the perspective of chapter layout, is character-centered. Each chapter describes a main character, but there is one person who runs through the book, and he is Sangsang.
What kind of child is Sangsang?
He was naughty. He dismantled the mosquito nets and fish, smashed the pot at home to buy pigeons, peeked at the teacher's love letters, and tore off the inner pages of his father's most precious notebook.
He was vain. Wear a cotton jacket on a hot day to get everyone's attention.
He is also very kind. He sympathizes with Grandma Qin and helps Teacher Jiang and Bai Jie pass on love letters.
Sometimes he is a little arrogant and preaches righteousness; but sometimes he is a little cowardly and does not dare to admit that he has done something wrong.
Yes, he has strengths and weaknesses, his family is neither rich nor very poor, there is nothing special about appearance, the grades are not good or bad, like most of our children, he is an ordinary child.
However, in the last chapter, the author uses a special brushwork, so that we not only see a unique sangsang, but also follow the sangsang to taste the beauty of life, remembering everyone in the grass house. How did he do it?
The authors first designed a sudden lesion. This lesion made the young Sangsang begin to change:
Sangsang suddenly remembered that he was going to take a burnt corn from Willow's hand. Sangsang said to Willow, "You give me the corn, and in a few days I'll take you into the city." Liu Liu looked at the corn in his hand, although he was a little reluctant, but he could not resist the temptation of Sangsang blowing through the whistle, so he gave the corn to Sangsang, but Sangsang forgot his promise when he finished eating the corn. After thinking about this, Sangsang's face suddenly turned red. So, Sangsang left a note for the family and left the house with Willow, and the ninja's illness made Willow play in the city for a day.
From this incident, the author allows us to see Sangsang's reflection on life. After reflection, the author also let Sangsang begin to appreciate kindness:
"Sangsang seems kinder to anyone than ever. Every time he did something, even if it was to help someone pick up an eraser from the ground, his heart was touched by himself. Sangsang is willing to do anything for people: help the horses to watch the sheep, bring a bowl of water to a hungry and thirsty passerby... He was willing to do anything for the sheep, for the cattle, for the pigeons, for the sparrows. ”
Aware of the fragility of life, Sangsang cherishes the existence of life more than ever, so that even the smallest beings can arouse Sangsang's compassion. His understanding, Teacher Wen Youju summed it up like this:
"For nearly half a year, you, the children, including Paper Moon, have let Sangsang see many of the best things in the world, and he has no reason not to be good at eating medicine."
The experience of being sick made Sangsang realize the most important thing in life, and he looked forward to the continuation of life more than ever.
Therefore, the author next designed the experience of Sangsang's father and son seeking medical treatment.
His father, Sancho, left his job and took Sangsang to Suzhou To see a doctor. After a month, I visited several hospitals and exhausted all the money I brought, but in exchange for the same conclusion as the county hospital: there was no medicine to cure.
Just when the father and son felt hopeless, hope seemed to suddenly appear. Someone told Sancho that there was a Chinese medicine doctor who had an ancestral secret recipe for the treatment of Sangsang's disease. Along the way, the father and son kept hearing legendary descriptions of the doctor, and even came across a patient who had been cured by the doctor.
Things seem to be getting more and more promising. Sangsang, who had long felt that he could not walk, felt a kind of strength, and at this time he actually asked to come down and walk on his own. The two of them confidently entered the town, but after only half an hour, the father and son's hopes were dashed. The legendary doctor died last year, and the father and son fell into despair in an instant:
He suddenly felt that he could no longer resist the heavy tiredness. His legs were weak and he could hardly walk. Sangsang was also tired. ”
Only later, when Sangsang and everyone lost hope, Sangsang's father and son finally met a real master, an old doctor who was too old to "stand". He "just slumped in his chair, his head dangling unsteadily." He trembled and touched the lump on Sangsang's neck and said, "It's just a ripe sore." "Sangsang was finally cured of his illness after this ups and downs.
Hope, constant disappointment, then despair, and finally despair. It is through these ups and downs of the plot that the author makes the story fascinating.
At the same time, from Sangsang, we have tasted the fragility of life, seen the tenacity of growth, and read about the many beautiful things in the world.
Yes, life is precious, and the life of each of us is limited. So, what is the best and most important thing in our lives? I think different people think differently.
In the book "Mind 7 Game", Bi Shumin once wrote a game of "five things like people". The way to play is simple:
First take out a blank piece of paper, let yourself be calm as water, and solemnly write five things on the paper with a black signature pen that you think are the most important and precious things in life, which can be physical objects or abstract;
Imagine that you have encountered a disaster, you have to give up one of these five things, blacken this heavily until you can't see, close your eyes, and feel the feelings in your heart;
Open your eyes and imagine that you have encountered another insurmountable difficulty and have to abandon one of the four, repeatedly blacking out and experiencing;
Imagine again that your life has suffered setbacks and you have to abandon one of the three, repeatedly blacking out and experiencing; then, choosing one of the two; finally, the most precious one remaining.
This game, I used to do at different times. When I was young, my parents were the most important; after marriage, my children were the most important; and in my years of confusion, I had a new understanding.
It is true that there are many beautiful things in our lives, and every flower and grass in this world, our relatives and friends around us, are all beautiful things that are worth cherishing. But the best thing is actually ourselves. Because, only when you learn to cherish yourself, will you cherish everything around you.
Only a beautiful you deserves a beautiful world.
(To be continued, next time continue to share creative technique 6: focus on the emotional grass house.) Stay tuned. ）
Have fun reading with your children! I am Du Doudou, the mother of two children, love to read, love code words, welcome to pay attention to me, on the road to reading happy together.