The first time I read Mr. Liang's works was not his work On Earth, which won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Prize, but his new novel Awakening after winning the prize. The core of this novel is to tell our citizens that they have not yet awakened, repented and understood the influence of culture on people. Only when there are more awakened people like Tao Heng in our country can we develop better. In addition, the author's language is very simple and fluent, and as a narrator, his mood is quite calm.
The above is the theme and style of the novel. What about Mr. Liang's prose writing? The fact remains the same. The author's non-fiction writing is also based on the growth and life path of his generation, telling the ups and downs of that generation. The author also tells us his true non-fiction story through his plain and fluent prose writing and warm and calm style. For example, this new collection of essays, The Awakening of the World, is enough.
This book is full of autobiographical prose and is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is about the author's recollection and writing of his experiences as a teenager with a soft attitude, which reflects his cherish of his hard-won identity as a writer, his deep nostalgia for family ties and teachers and students, and how the author overcame poverty and lived in that special period. For example, in My Parents, it was written that although the author's parents were poor and illiterate, they all gave the author a completely different education. My father advocated the people's efforts to survive at that time, and my mother advocated the education of culture to enlighten the author, and embarked on a road of surviving by culture.
Later, when I was in primary school, the author spoke highly of his Chinese teacher. In the essay "I miss my teacher", the author also takes his bullying as an example, highlighting the bad education atmosphere represented by the class teacher at that time. Through the negative side of the head teacher, the author also set off the love and cultivation of the bullied author by the Chinese teacher who helped him at that time. Among them, the Chinese teacher discovered the author's storytelling talent and encouraged and "publicized" it, which naturally made the young author have a proud sense of existence, satisfied the author's literary vanity, and naturally made the author embark on the road of literature. Especially when the author has the idea of transferring schools, the dialogue between the Chinese teacher and the author makes the author feel the warmth and encouragement of the world. This is an expression of the author's sincere nostalgia for the teacher.
In my middle school, I wrote that the author was not only educated by the teacher, but also that he was determined to embark on the road of literature, that is, his mother. When describing mother, the plot of mother doing needlework reflects the author's profound prose writing style. "mom's hair and clothes are covered with felt ... the water dripping from the sewing board is the sweat dripping from mom." This kind of painting style is realistic and simple, which profoundly restored the scene of mother's hard work at that time. After that, the author wrote a story about his mother, as if influenced by oral literature, and the author knew a lot of literary allusions. Through mother's education, the author gradually realized that the goal of literature is a marathon, which must be done step by step, which is very enlightening for every writer. In addition, the article also describes how the author studies hard. For example, when the author is free to cook "Dazi" porridge, he is deeply attracted by the changes of plots and characters in literary works, which naturally highlights the magic of literature.
In the author's prose writing, the author will also express his feelings through things. For example, in Mother Raises Snails, the author borrows her mother's love for snails to show her noble sentiment and wisdom in life, such as loneliness, habit of living alone, shyness and gentleness. In addition, write mom's article again, such as what did mom broadcast? "It's a mourning for the dead mother. Here, I wrote about my mother's great love. She not only loves her children, but also adopts a pair of adopted sons. They all educate the author equally to be kind and generous and learn to be a good person. This is the lifelong benefit of the author and others, so even the adopted children are willing to be as filial as their own, which shows the great love and nobility of the mother's motherhood.
In addition to writing about maternal love, the author also wrote articles about brotherhood, such as Letter to My Brother. My brother was slapped because he was willing to use the roof to protect glass cutter who lost his father. This makes the author feel extremely guilty and respect for his brother, and regards him as an example.
In the second chapter, I wrote memories of my loved ones. For example, in the works about his father, his father's acting career highlights his hard work for his family, and in such a heavy and hard work, the author also remembers his father through humorous and interesting style. For example, the screenwriter will make people laugh when watching the plot of the movie "White Dragon Sword" played by his father. In addition, in "Father's Legacy", I wrote about my father's thrift through the razor he used, my precious information through the jade fitness ball, and my selfless care for the author's family through the handbag. The article Brothers not only reflects the author's record of brotherhood, but also describes the social reality of hunger at that time. For example, the author wrote, "Hunger is like a big hand, still holding the stomachs of most people in China, and it comes from the grassroots ...".
In the second chapter, I also wrote about the fatherly love between the author and his son, such as "the feeling of being a father" and "me and my son". This is a lively emotional atmosphere, such as the laughing stock of the authors who are blind in mathematics and physics and the communication between their father and son. Naturally, it is funny, and it also flows out the plot that parents and children all over the world feel the same. In the first stroke, the author also wrote about his mother's love for the author, but apart from his mother's love, what moved the author even more was that in the social background at that time, at first, the author saw that her mother would not buy a pen for herself, and wanted to help the rickshaw driver push the car up the hill to earn a little money.
The method of making small money here reminds me that when I was in the first grade in the country, I also made small money to buy snacks. That is, the author and other friends go to help others move bricks, and the reward is a dime a brick. The task is to move the brick as far as possible from the road, from the place where the cart can reach, from the path, and then move the brick across the field to the construction site. Because the traffic situation in the village at that time was that there was either a path or a field base in front of the residential base, and there was still a distance from the main road, so the truck could not transport the bricks to the construction site. So we students have the opportunity to make small money, and now it's warm to think about it. Going back to the plot where the author made a little money, it was quite dramatic, and then it was true that the driver who helped the author push the cart at that time was the author's mother. Naturally, the author got the first pen in his life. The structure of the novel and the emotional switching of the prose here make this prose interesting and sincere, which is really good.
Later, in the third and fourth chapters, I wrote about the people and things that the author met with the society, such as the honest management and kind character of an old lady who sold tea eggs. Although this text is the shortest one in the book, it describes the most expensive one in people's minds and the nobility and calmness of the old peddler who has no intention of begging. Of course, I also wrote the conscience and responsibility of the old man in "Thin Old Man". It is also a love story about the author's "eternal pain in my heart" in the sigh tone of 16 bus. He also used orange peel to write the class teacher who was severely nearsighted in My Past, The Woman Watching Bicycles who called for equality between people, and The Story of Little Garbage Girl. The author didn't wait for the "poor girl" to send him the blessing of the first day of junior high school. The stories of these little people and so on. They all embody both small feelings and big minds. Between the lines, they all reflect the author's attitude towards the world and praise the brilliance and sober beauty of human nature.
Finally, the fifth chapter describes the author's positive attitude towards life saving. In the Garden of the Soul, we read the author's methods of disciplining his son positively, which is a good article worth learning by many parents. Naturally, I have also written the author's articles on the relief of first love, such as "First Love Miscellaneous Feeling". In addition, I also wrote Reflections on Chinese New Year, which shows that adults have a relieved attitude towards the significance of Chinese New Year. On the topic of adversity, the author wrote a reply to Xiaohui, influencing Xiaohui with his own growth experience, indicating that the so-called excessive adversity mentioned by modern people is actually just not smooth compared with the previous era when the problem of food and clothing could not be solved. At the same time, it also shows that even in adversity, you are not the only one suffering, and thousands of unfortunate people in Qian Qian are also suffering, so we should all respond positively, because we are not alone in the war of resistance. This is the author's innermost background of human peace.
And the last one, "The Memory of Human Nature", is actually a book review on small memories. I want to make it clear that the prose works written by the author can also be written objectively and without exaggeration. In the sun, no matter how sad and horrible things are, they can be contained with people's hearts and love for life. This is the greatest original intention of the author to write prose, which is true, objective and warm to show the sobriety of the world. This is a story about a sober realist writing a sober story. This is Mr. Liang's monologue about the mind, so that every reader can see all beings and himself.