"Like a Migratory Bird" reading notes

May 11, 2021 The whole book is finished

I don't remember the original intention of the book "Like a Migratory Bird", but after reading "The Mountain Moon" and "The Wisdom of the West from Socrates to Wittgenstein", I needed to slow down, so I had the reading notes for this book.

The author of the book "Like a Migratory Bird" is Zhou Xiaofeng, a Chinese writer, so there is no problem with the translation of the books I read before. It is inevitable that most writers write articles that substitute themselves, which may be the first novel or a novel based on themselves alone. According to this article, the author originally came from an editor's background, because the writing was good, and then he was encouraged to write this book by friends, of course, in terms of sales, it is indeed not a best-selling book, and it is also related to the subject matter - prose. Yes, this book is prose.

When I was in school, the teacher must have said the essence of prose - "scattered and scattered", the book is composed of many chapters and summaries, giving full play to the characteristics of prose. Okay, let's get started!

First of all, the self-prologue part, here is the author to tell his own creation origin and after the plan, the length is not long, do not like to see can also be crossed, the subsequent article relevance is a little, but not large.

Entering the first chapter - Muppet cat, "I" began to describe from a friend to help raise a Muppet cat named Bubu, the cat has a very docile personality, in line with the image of the Muppet, the story continues We know why "I" because the reason for the raising is that the owner of the Bubu is hospitalized, and after understanding it, I know that it was originally abused by the boyfriend. Pity's boyfriend comes from a deformed family, and violence is the solution he inherited from his father. The police want Xiao Pi to cooperate, but Xiao Pi refuses, and later when she catches the abusive boyfriend, she learns that Xiao Pi has been secretly communicating with her boyfriend.

Here the author "I" began to analyze from the small pity thing, many women are good at putting themselves into the identity of the tragic protagonist, not so much that the little pity is obsessed with love, but rather obsessed with sadness. The boyfriend will apologize and coax her to compensate her after each domestic violence, which is very similar to the radish stick, and can get sweet after knowing that it is hurt, and The little pity has been deeply involved in it.

From weakness to cowardice in a relationship, this is an important reason for the escalation of violence, and the relationship between men and women is also constant trial and error to establish boundaries, and the loss of equality means that the relationship is unbalanced. The author distances Picasso's past love affair, and all three people in the three relationships have received Picasso's "violent aesthetics", but after they leave Picasso, the emotions are not detached.

Then the author mentions the domestic fish, which in his eyes are actually waiting to grow older; then mentions a species called slave ants, whose occupation is to raise aphids - where there is oppression, there is obedience, and also reflects that the reason why equality is difficult to achieve is only due to external institutions that are not reasonable, tolerant personality, collective numbness.

The second chapter, The First Wash like a Baby, tells the story of the author's grandfather, father, and himself suffering from Helmertz's disease, and the author records this process of illness.

The book consists of ten chapters, some of which are not described, but only the longer chapters, the song and the two chapters like migratory birds.

The song is about a literary friend of the author, Tu Su, who grew up in the countryside and was admitted to Peking University, and there was a female classmate who had a crush during middle school, and later after graduation, he was squeezed out of the work place by a classmate who was not as good as him because he had no background, and he had no choice but to enter the factory as a clerk, and later the national government unit was opened to society, and Tu Su was admitted. The leader of the unit introduced his colleague Minghui to him, and Tu Su secretly thought that marrying Minghui Shitu was helpful and agreed, but obviously not, Minghui came from the countryside like him, and even worse conditions than Tu Su. After marriage, it entered a huge gap, when Tu Su's first love Xiao Ye appeared, a lawyer who claimed to have already realized the financial freedom of life to help Tu Su, under such rhetoric Tu Su cheated. Minghui soon learned, at the beginning for the sake of children patience, at this time Tu Su's career has a turning point, the leader to do a project Tu Su wants to go, Minghui advised Tu Su not to lose his job opportunities, and Xiao Ye is encouragement, so that Tu Su's marriage has come to an end, and Tu Su's parents also strongly support Tu Su's decision to marry Xiao Ye after seeing that Xiao Ye helped Tu Su's brother solve the work matter.

After many years of separation, the author received the news of Tu Su's death, and after meeting In Beijing after seeing Tu Su's dirty and messy residence, he met Xiao Ye, and talked to the author about his past and belittled Tu Su's kinship. The author found Tu Su's ex-wife Minghui to inquire, contrary to the narrative in Xiao Ye's mouth, the author came to Tu Su's hometown in order to learn more news, and met Tu Su's parents and sister who returned remotely. Tu Su's childhood was not happy, poor family, uneducated parents, short, intelligent learning he was ostracized, in middle school met a poetry-loving night, that is his unexplained first love. Tu Su's parents mentioned that Xiao Ye was very angry, they believed that Tu Su Kaobbo, who was nearly half a hundred years old, studied sudden death in the office all night because of Xiao Yue's vanity; Tu Su had not returned home for several years because of Xiao Yue's behavior; Xiao Ye was looking for family debts and other behaviors, the author's image of Xiao Ye fell to the bottom for a while, thinking that Xiao Ye was a woman with a bad heart.

On the way home, the author found Tu Su's blog. Tu Su wrote about his literature in the blog, but it soon disappeared. The blog of the little night that interacts with it records the daily life of the two people, sometimes it is the rhetoric of the night, but it is full of loopholes. Sometimes it is a record of life, after the failure of the project of following the leader, Tu Su and Xiao Ye night together, out of the system, but the character of Tu Su in the outside world is not suitable for survival, Tu Su returned to the system, at this time can only stay in Qingshui's department. Life began to stretch thin, and Tu Su began to buckle the ropes. The author thinks that the money that is asked for from his parents in the mouth of The Little Night is actually Tu Su, and Tu Su describes the author as an admirer when describing the relationship with the author, so that the author falls below the past cognition of Tu Su.

The author concludes by writing that Tu Su lacks patience, both in literature, love, and career. Tu Su gives people the impression of being indifferent to Mingzhi, but in fact, it is just his disguise, and the personality of quick success is disguised under the quiet appearance, and the evaluation of Mingming's skills is not as good as that of people but refuses to completely put down.

I am more concerned with another passage said by the author - talent itself is born, the gift of God is to let us travel beautifully in the spiritual world, if it is always used to solve the real dilemma, to seek the benefits of the worldly meaning, the so-called talent, will soon disappear.

Another chapter, "Like a Migratory Bird," is the title of the book. "I" lived in Beijing when I was a child, and then my parents went to the countryside of my grandmother in Wuhan for a while, and then my grandmother died, so "I" went to my uncle's house in Suzhou, and was sexually assaulted by my uncle, and the sex became a nightmare. My parents noticed "me," so I went back to Beijing. The boyfriend who was in the first relationship ended up being a negative person, witnessing the departure of the child for the first time, so "I" left Beijing for Canada.

I met a man in Canada who came here for a better life for his daughter, and unlike what he imagined, he didn't find a suitable job opportunity in Canada, and he committed suicide after his wife was separated. And "I" was a little bit luckier than he was. At a certain interval, "I" returned to Beijing, but Beijing did not change much, and I went abroad again to Kenya and met a new life here.

I described the rough story very simply, which is like a turbulent displacement, the author likens herself to a bird that lives in the world, has no habitat of its own, and then she finally finds her own nature.

When reading a book, some chapters will not understand what the author is expressing, and it is often not possible to know with the author.

The novel is prose, and the author writes at the end of the book that because it is not a bestseller, the sales volume is not very impressive. Probably because of the limitations of the subject matter, the prose is sometimes obscure. I still tend to recommend this book, because the author's sentence does not sell well. Haha, in fact, the author's point of view in the book is still to the point, worthy of the editor's background. These ideas have also given me some new insights, and some answers to the limitations of people, a book that will be rewarding.