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Enlightenment to literary creation. The author tasted the full text of Poor Mother several times, but found no traces of deliberate carving, interlocking, fluent and concise. The whole story is a plain narrative, without intense plot and character conflict. Even so, it can make readers feel bitter and even burst into tears, and remember to read the next line before reading the text of this line. It can be said that it is profound and simple, but also ingenious and simple! Also, judging from the time stamp, the author finished it in five days. So it is conceivable that tears must have fallen on the keyboard and cast this nail-like text.
From this, the author thinks of today's "literary works" groaning everywhere, and has to think of the root of modern China's literary creation: unless it touches the soul and gives people a sense of reality, there is absolutely no way out, either for vanity (retreat) or quantity. As master Solzhenitsyn said, "The writer's task is the secret of human mind and conscience, the secret of the conflict between life and death, and the secret of overcoming mental pain ..."
Thoughts after reading "Poor Mom"
There are always many touching stories in the big era. The mother of Lanchi 168 (Ms. Lanchi) lived in that big era like everyone else. The situation in her mother's dynasty was not 100 thousand, but 80 thousand. There may be more than this number, and there are many literary works describing those stories. Other people's works don't impress me as much as Ms. Lanchi's. It's not that others write badly, Lanchi. But the protagonist of this story is Ms. Lanchi's mother, and Ms. Lanchi is our net friend. We can contact someone with 100% credibility and authenticity.
I'm not familiar with Ms. Lan Qi. I was the first blogger to contact after the blog was opened. At that time, I went to her blog to see what diary articles she had. I have a bad habit. I like to read the articles of netizens, make friends at the level of articles, and then look at the age of bloggers. Bloggers between 45 and 52 are my conditions for choosing friends. On Ms. Lanchi's blog, I saw a diary that said, "What I wrote is true, and my mother told me before she died. Since my mother told me what happened to her, she became ill and died soon. My mother is 40 years old and I am only 20 years old. I wrote it to remember my mother and let the world see my poor mother! "
My first reaction was that this Lanchi 168 (whose name was not known until she became a friend) must be a girl of about 30 years old, as old as my daughter, and her mother and I are contemporaries, so I looked for the earliest article and read the first and second paragraphs, but I found it wrong. 10 years ago, there was no such word as "recalling bitter experience and thinking sweet". My next step is to go to the blogger's homepage and find out Ms. Ranch's age. Only then did I know that she and my sister were in the same year, so her mother should have lived during the Anti-Japanese War.
I have been eager to be born in that era since I was a child, and only in that era can I become a hero, so I like to listen to the old people telling stories of that era. Ms. Lanchi tells her mother's story in approachable words, hiding the connection between the past and the future. People who read the text will follow the people in the text and worry about them.
I think if Ms. Lanchi has time, she should write it again and rewrite this short story into a novella or a long one, especially since there are still many things she hasn't confessed. I guess Ms. Lan Qi's mother will talk more.
I remember an old man told me that when he and his younger brother came out from home, he went to the end of the village and his younger brother went to the end of the village. Since then, they have separated. He has always been afraid of killing his brother on the battlefield, but he hopes to have his brother among the injured, so that he can see his brother.
The progress of history is cruel, and no one can stop it. "People" can only go with the flow. How much can we see from Ms. Lan Chi's Poor Mother, and the difference between that era and the present? Personally, if a family loses a child bride now, will that family look for it? And now who dares to take in a person of unknown origin? In today's society, there are traffickers who catch children and sell them abroad. Was there one in the past? How much has our life improved since that era?