To live is to live, and above living is to live. Sometimes the boundaries between existence and life are blurred. The bottom of society struggles on the survival line, the middle class panics all day for the decline of the class, and the upper class is busy weaving nets and building walls to consolidate its own interests.
This is the picture of all beings described in the book "Above Life". The novel reflects the choices of different people in social reality by talking about academic corruption and unfair distribution of social resources.
Nie Zhiyuan and Meng Tianshu are two college students in the history school of a university in a second-tier city. Nie Zhiyuan has a dream. He hopes to explore history, study history and let more people face history squarely. Meng Tianshu had a lively mind and began to sell pirated books when he was studying, but he didn't succeed. From then on, he put forward and believed in the theory that "the center of the world is under his ass".
When he finished his senior year, Nie Zhiyuan's tutor in top student was the dean, and Meng Tianshu's tutor was an ordinary lecturer. Meng Tianshu persuaded Nie Zhiyuan to change tutors with him and was admitted to graduate school with the help of the dean.
When I was in graduate school, Meng Tianshu was a master student of the Dean, and Nie Zhiyuan was a graduate student of a teacher named Tong. Then Meng Tianshu persuaded Nie Zhiyuan and him to change tutors again on the grounds of professionalism. It wasn't long before Nie Zhiyuan found out that the old dean was about to retire, and the new dean was Teacher Tong.
With Dean Tong, Meng Tianshu's life will be "open". After graduating from master's degree, he stayed in school, studied for an on-the-job doctor, was rated as an associate professor and professor, became an assistant dean and vice president, and became the candidate for the next president.
Nie Zhiyuan, after graduating from master's degree, became a middle school history teacher and took three exams. With the help of Meng Tianshu, he was admitted to Beijing to study for a doctorate, and returned to his alma mater as a lecturer after graduation. Meng Tianshu was named as an associate professor only when he was named as a professor, and he was unexpectedly named as a professor at the end of the story.
Of course, as a reader, I want to get rid of the protagonist's thinking and clearly know the truth that "character determines fate". Even if Meng and Nie didn't change tutors, Nie, a graduate student of Dean Tong, may not be able to mix all the way to the vice president to teach doctoral tutors. Mongolia will definitely fight its way out in other ways.
There are many little people in the book, and the fate of each little person vividly reflects the living conditions of a class of people.
The first kind of little people are people who are worried about work arrangements, such as Nie Zhiyuan's wife Zhao, who graduated from college on 2 1 1, worked for seven years, took seven exams and was excluded every time.
The second kind of villain is those who are troubled by the evaluation of professional titles, such as Associate Professor Tao Xian, who is obsessed with and loves academics but is not good at making friends. There is a backlog of more than a dozen papers, and there is no money to send them. He is still an associate professor in his forties, and there is no hope for him to be advanced.
The third kind of little people are those who live like duckweed without family protection, such as Nie Zhiyuan's female graduate student He. She took a wrong step and gave up staying in school as a counselor directly, choosing a counselor without graduate students. Who knows that under the great changes in the employment situation, she read a master's degree but could not get her favorite job as a counselor. After the setback, she resisted the temptation, but suddenly became an unorganized middle school teacher.
In contrast to these tragic figures, there are some "powerful", "smart" and "lucky" people.
For example, William Liu, a sports student in Nie Zhiyuan's class, got this sports student by looking for a relationship at home, so he didn't want to go to school when he dropped out of school, but he could find a college secretary at home to put pressure on Nie Zhiyuan to ensure that William Liu could be admitted.
For example, Fan Xiaomin, the second generation official, can put pressure on the class teacher to be the monitor, study English and take the TOEFL test. Before the final exam, the college leaders will also arrange teachers of various courses to give her key explanations, and finally go to foreign universities with public places.
For example, Tang called every teacher to plead that he would study abroad at his own expense and asked the teachers to get high marks. As a result, he successfully applied for graduate school.
Perhaps this is the truth that Yan Zhen tried to tell readers-the essence of life may be outside the mainstream. For example, the life track and inner waves in Water of Canglang are "the other" and unrealistic fantasy goals for most people, and the basic appearance of most people's life is just living.
Moreover, the meaning of living is not for ideals to a large extent, and the motivation of people to persist is largely due to some deep-rooted simple truths.
But persistence will always be worn and hurt, which has become the basic definition of living: ambiguity, corrosion, compromise, insignificant struggle and resistance.
No matter what Mr. Yan described is the most common situation, not the darkest one, I still want to say that I want to believe that there are still some people in this world, not all of them are so humble. Above the most basic survival, there must be other survival significance.
In the end, we all have to choose a way to live, explore the meaning of living and find out what we can do besides living. I hope life can make more living space.
As for this kind of life, society can't hold you, and it's impossible to realize the utopia overnight. How it looks depends on you. ?
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Above life
Author: Yan Zhen
Publishing House: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication year: 20 14 12.
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