In such a flashy and restless era, fewer and fewer people are willing to calm down and read a novel, to be precise, few people need words to cultivate sentiments. Not to mention reading a long masterpiece. But no matter when, the text brings people to move, to bring people shock is what other media can not do, in the text, you can reverie infinite, you can sketch out the various roles in your mind, an article you show to ten people, they may have ten different feelings, but a good novel, a good text, no matter what emotion it brings, we will be deeply attracted.
Although the main line of the novel "Brothers" revolves around the story between two brothers, it condenses a history of the times, and it is not too much to say that it is a historical work. The language of the article seems vulgar or even dirty, and the author likes to use words such as "king and bastard" and "fuck", but it is precisely because of this real language that we can truly feel the real life of the people in that era, and the personality of the characters will be more distinct and prominent. Like the protagonist of this book, Li Guangtou, we can't seem to simply evaluate the good and the bad, but for such a smart, spooky and a little cunning character, it can arouse my love and hate for him.
I love his naughtiness, and in the years when he was a child, when he wandered the streets aimlessly, I could see a small bald head wearing a dirty and sloppy scene full of streets, his naughtiness and frankness and body, real and unpretentious. The first time I hated him was when he exposed his father Song Fanping, I was very angry about his behavior, and when I saw that Song Fanping was beaten and covered in blood, I hated his ignorance. At the station where Song Fanping died tragically, I wanted to love this boy again, and I couldn't help but love him when I saw him assembling a car for my mother to go to the countryside. Throughout the book, my love and hatred for him has never stopped, he always makes me feel like the embodiment of angels and demons, he is not pretentious, he lives very real, love and hate are clear, it is difficult to really fall in love with him and it is difficult to really fall in love with him.
For Song Gang, he, like his father, is a heart-wrenching character. In the process of reading the book, I cried twice sadly, once when Song Fanping was killed at the station, and once when Song Gang was lying on the rail at the station, and both times I could not contain my emotions. The personalities of the two people are so similar, just like Li Lan said, "If there is a father, there must be a son", and the final fate of the two people is not as tall and indomitable as their appearance. I can't understand that Song Gang will finally choose such a way to end his life, maybe he can't make a choice between his lover and his brother, he is really too kind, he is afraid of hurting anyone he loves, but in the end he still loves all people and takes all the sadness away. This is the difference between him and Li Guangtou, Li Guangtou is selfish, but he loves and hates clearly, but Song Gang only has one "silly" word enough to summarize, kind to silly, obsessed to stupid, thinking of stupid for others, and in the end he is the stupid person who can't help but feel pain. I think he should not have thought that the woman he loved would choose another path after he died, although I am a woman, I also can't understand why Lin Hong would choose such a path.
Lin Hong has always been a person around the love between these two brothers, but I really can't see her through. I know that she loves Song Gang deeply, she only needs Li Guangtou when she is lonely and empty, and she has not loved this man. Sometimes I still feel that her love is very selfish, and I have been wondering if Song Gang's life would be a little different without the presence of this person. I can't understand that in the end she will choose to live with the identity of "Sister Lin", maybe she is just to survive, maybe she is such a person herself, or maybe she is just dead in her heart, just a shell, but more perhaps she is to punish herself, to remind herself of what she has done, no matter what, the end is that she is no longer that naïve, proud, little girl, all her beauty is on that night with the joy of clouds and rain with Li Guangtou, with song Gang's death completely ended.
This book tells not only the story between the two brothers, but also the growth story of those characters in Liu Zhen, from their growth can also feel the changes from the turbulent era to the modern era, can feel the ups and downs of different people in different eras, no one is smooth sailing, everyone has their own story, each character has their own personality characteristics, this is the greatness of this book, it seems to be just a story in Liu Zhenzhong, but it has included thousands of mentalities.
Have to admire Yu Hua's writing ability, the ability to conceive, he did write the characters alive, but also did write history alive, at the beginning of the article he told us the ending, this is not like a suspense novel we are eager to know the ending, but it brings us the same curiosity, let us eager to know what happened, the charm of this book is that we are eager to know the next story, eager to read all the time. Slowly you will not feel that the 700-page novel is too long, but you will feel that the whole book is full and fulfilling.