1. The plot is driven by the plot
. 2. The background, identity, and irreconcilable contradictions of
the characters are used to promote the development
. A sort of.
Zhang Ailing is the last type, so the people she writes are not special, they are all common people in that era, some calculations of character and orientation, and a desolate gesture.
Yan Geling is good at using the second type. The characters often have a special identity background, and there are irreconcilable contradictions with society and others. This contradiction gives the story a great explosive force. For example, in "Auntie Duohe", Duohe left behind by the Japanese army after the retreat was rescued by a Chinese couple and gave birth to a child in place of a barren Chinese wife; "Girl Xiaoyu" faked marriage with a foreign old man in order to help her boyfriend get a green card.
In her story, the characters are not prominent, but the characters are very powerful. Some people are the power of love, and some people are the power of selfishness. In a special context, two forces come together to ignite contradictions.
Once such a character identity is set, the story will develop naturally.
"Return" is mainly divided into two parts, the first part during the Cultural Revolution, and the second part after the end.
During the Cultural Revolution, Lu Yanshi was a rightist, conflicted with the future of his wife and daughter, and the natural feelings between husband and wife, father and daughter were challenged. When Lu Yuye returned, his wife had to choose between her daughter's and her husband's interests. She hesitated to open the door in time. In the end, she was overcome by the power of love and went to the station to make an appointment the next day. From Lu's disregard for safety, shouting his wife's name, in order to find a wife, his trust in his wife will come, and his eagerness to see her, it can be seen that their relationship is deep.
The second part, the end of the Cultural Revolution, Lu Yanshi was taken off his hat, not a rightist, the background of the conflict between him and his wife disappeared. As a result, the wife suffered from psychogenic amnesia. This is the second background setting. A person who loves deeply, but one party does not recognize the other party, and the contradiction arises again.
1. Today, when terminal illness and amnesia are commonly used, this second background will inevitably give people a far-fetched and false feeling. I have asked a few people who have seen it, and they are all here for a while, it is not so natural.
2. The amnesia in this story can go beyond the general terminal illness and amnesia because he has a previous background. If only one criminal was released from prison and found that the other half had amnesia, the shock would not be as great as this story. Lu Yanshi's husband and wife were misjudged by the times, causing separation, which is sad. Now that they are finally together, they can't recognize each other, which makes people sigh.
The tragedy they did not recognize in the end was a critique of that era. The more they depict how much they love each other, the more it shows how much harm was done to people at that time. Some people say that as "scar literature", its criticism is not thorough. I think, instead of criticizing violently from the perspective of a third party, it is better to write about the individuals at that time, what was delayed, what was lost, what was changed in this catastrophe, and then was completely destroyed for life. Really, people only have one life.
I often feel that the society has several lifetimes, and the people have several lifetimes. And people really only have a lifetime.
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