The novel attempts to point to two major problems, namely, the peasant problem and the college entrance examination system. With black humor and heavy spiritual style, the author ruthlessly dissected and lashed the college entrance examination system, and made a touching sketch of how farmers walked out of the wheat field and how to survive in the wheat field. The reading process of this book is a process of restoring people to the past. Since its publication, it has touched many readers, many of whom are reading while wiping their tears.
This book is not only a successful story, but also a well-deserved poetic novel. This is a poetic novel. Good literary works must be poetic. The so-called poetic nature means that language can pass through the lies of knowledge, reach the truth and present it emotionally. Writing a novel requires rich knowledge, especially realistic themes, which can only make the novel more realistic and enhance readers' certainty about it. Fiction is inseparable from knowledge, but the essence of fiction is not to present knowledge. Novels are not textbooks. Fiction really cares about life, life, mind and truth ... just like poetry, it can shock people, touch the world and gain itself. "Out of the Wheat Field" was done, and the poetry in the novel accounted for a large part.
The title of the novel comes from Exodus in the Old Testament, which is intended to show the difficult process of rural people going out of the countryside and integrating into the city. The whole novel has three parallel lines. One is set in South Xu Cun, which mainly tells the story of the Xu family and the Xu family, as well as the hardships of South Xu Cun in resisting the oppression in the town. The most important thing is Xu Yitong's high school days and his love story with Xu. In this story clue, the novel sees all kinds of disadvantages of China's exam-oriented education, goes deep into the texture of rural society in China, and shows the hardships and difficulties of rural people changing their living conditions and eager to enter the city; The second clue is based on the growth of Xia Nianxiang, and the love-hate relationship between Xia Nianxiang and Duanmu Yuqing develops. These two clues seem reluctant to approach, but in fact they are closely related, suggesting that the Xia family, the Xu family and the Xu family are inextricably linked. There is also a clue to the tragic experience of Xu Sports, a lonely hero in the countryside. The story of Xu Sports leads to the childhood Xu Yitong and Xu-the last three lines are combined into one, that is, the three sorrows are one. The novel also tells the names of the characters in the novel, interspersed with a large number of original poems. Poetry plays a leading role in this novel.
Duanmu Yuqing was originally outside the wheat field, but she gave up her superior life outside the wheat field for love, broke into the wheat field and was finally buried in the wheat field because of dystocia; Xia Nianxiang was originally in the wheat field, and left the wheat field by talent and study. Later, he just wanted to pursue his power in the officialdom, lost himself and lost himself outside the wheat field. Xu Yitong wanted to leave the wheat field by the college entrance examination, but he was destined to accept the joke of fate and wander in the cracks of the wheat field. Xu moved to the city to work, walked out of the wheat field, gave the index to the third brother, went home by himself, and was driven crazy to walk in the wheat field and the countryside. I took my second brother Xu's class to work in the city and walked out of the wheat field. I just wanted to listen to the flattery of my hometown people about my city identity and lost my gratitude to my hometown brothers. Surrounded by wheat fields, water will eventually erase your love dream in the sea of wheat and marry a man you don't love; Xu Yihe married a city dweller by her beauty, walked out of the wheat field and improved her material life. She has a romantic urban husband, but she lost her true love in Mika. ...
From the fate of the characters listed above, we can vaguely see that the person wrapped in the wheat field is a transparent tragedy, and the person who leaves the wheat field is a vague tragedy. Beautiful wheat fields don't say, but we are destined to be like a mountain behind us. Aren't life and human beings tragedies? What kind of symbol and metaphor is it that the wheat field that once gave us a beautiful imagination and nurtured our growth still stands under the vast Yuan Ye and runs away with a silent river? !
The outstanding problems raised in the novel are:
(1) Forgetting problem
(2) Live in the present.
(3) the question of fate
(4) College entrance examination and social problems
(5) The questions of truth and falsehood, emptiness and reality.
(6) Historical issues
Love and death
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The outstanding images in the novel are:
(1) Maihai
(2) Sophora japonica
(3) Tung Flower
(4) bicycles.
The prominent main characters in the novel are:
(1) Xu Yitong
Love between childhood friends.
(2) Xu
(3) Xia Nianxiang (namely Tian Wen)
A sad love tragedy
(4) Duanmu Yuqing (that is, Wenshui)
(5) Farmers who are driven crazy by secular constraints go to work in cities and then return home.
The relationship and identity of the main characters in the novel are:
1. Xia Nianxiang (Tian Wenshi) Shuier's biological father (born in the 1960s, he lost his father when he was a child, and was left a son by a rural intellectual. His family was poor, he was brilliant in college, had ideals and beliefs, went into politics after graduation, and was later assimilated into an egoist who was bent on pursuing power).
Second, Duanmu Yuqing (Wenshui) Shuier's biological mother {born in the 1960s, Duanmu Village's daughter, born in a big merchant, with rich family, melancholy personality, dual ideals of career and love, musical and literary talent and beauty}
Third, Xu's love is the crystallization of warm water {In the 1980s, Xu and Xia Guihua adopted daughters, who were abused since childhood, and were melancholy and pure and beautiful. }
Fourthly, Xu Yitong is a childhood friend (born in 1980s, the son of Xu Zhengxing and Liang Ailing, the only student in the Xu family who is expected to be humorous, brave and true).
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Sister Xu Yihe and Xu Yitong {born in 1980s, rural girls who married city dwellers are kind} (Yihe is a warm-hearted figure in this novel).
6. Xu's son, Yitong's own uncle {born in the 1960s, he was the first worker in the village, who had seen snobbery, hypocrisy and social injustice in the world, but was finally driven crazy, brave and sincere}.
Seven, summer Xia Nianxiang and Ningshan's daughter, Shuier's half-sister {born in 1980s, princelings, transferred to a high school in Fengyang County to take the college entrance examination, and met Yi Tong, naive, optimistic and beautiful}.