Miss the red fox's thoughts after reading
Miss Red Fox is a masterpiece of contemporary prose, which has attracted wide attention since it was selected as a high school textbook (Selected Reading of Modern Prose by Jiangsu Education Edition). On the basis of careful reading of the text, this paper tries to untie the joints of the text. I saw Miss Red Fox, and I have four regrets:
When it comes to foxes, we think of idioms such as "Smith", "a fox's friend" and "the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad". These idioms have obvious derogatory meanings, which is also the stereotype of this animal in our traditional psychology. The fox in Liu Zhicheng is another image. The article has written about the fox's eyes many times, including "two diamond-shaped eyes blinking with water", "eyes blinking with water", four fox cubs, "bright eyes blinking at us like little stars", and the red fox who ventured to save the cubs "has dull eyes, dull expression and faint tears in the corners of his eyes". The choice of words and sentences reveals obvious praise, which subverts the traditional image of the fox.
In this paper, the battle between man and fox has gone through three rounds. In the first round, the fox stole the chicken; In the second round, people catch fox cubs; In the third round, the fox saved the cub and the man released the cub. In the first round, the fox won cleanly, and people have to accept the failure before they can respond; In the second round, the fox fully demonstrated his wit and sensitivity. People can't beat the old fox, so they have to attack the young fox, which can be said to be invincible. In the third round, the fox touched people with courage and persistence, and people blamed themselves and took the initiative to admit defeat.
The image of the fox changed from hateful to pitiful to respectable, and people's psychology also experienced the change of "hate-annoyance-joy-softness-horizontal-sadness". Judging from the appeal and results, the fox is undoubtedly the final winner. People stand on the moral high ground only because they voluntarily admit defeat, although they still shine after failure. We can't simply say that the author's feelings are biased towards the fox, but obviously the whole story runs through the ethics of equality and fear of life. The great humanist Dr. Shi Huaizhe said in Fear of Life: "Good is to preserve and promote life, and evil is to hinder and destroy life. If we get rid of our own prejudice, abandon our alienation from other lives and share joys and sorrows with the life around us, then we are moral. "
Missing the Red Fox undoubtedly discusses the ethics of equality and fear of life.
Judging from the grammatical structure of the sentence, "especially tasty" and "carefree" are opposites; Where does the worry come from? In the last article, there is another set of words that are opposite, namely "soft-hearted" and "cross-hearted".
Therefore, the key to understanding this topic is to understand the opposition between man and fox in the article:
Stealing chickens-catching chickens
Maternity-tuition fee
Survival-development?
Foxes steal chickens to reproduce and survive. I catch bears for tuition and development. Originally, the development of "I" had nothing to do with the survival of foxes. However, an unpredictable certainty (it is certain that the fox steals the chicken, and it is unpredictable when it steals the chicken) will affect two families, making the relationship between people and the fox inevitable. We call this unpredictable certainty fate, which often gives the choice and decision power to the powerful party, in this paper, people. How do people choose and decide? This is the connotation of "special". "A soft heart" and "a horizontal heart" show that human nature is complex and changeable, and goodness will never die. It is hidden in a corner of people's hearts, but when the cost of maintaining kindness is too high, kindness will be abandoned by people for various high-sounding reasons.
The opposition between man and fox made me face the dilemma of development earlier, and my family and I had to play a painful game between man's development and fox's survival.
"Sadness" is the psychological end point of the characters in Miss Red Fox. The "sadness" in the last paragraph is a continuation of "sadness".
The psychological basis of "sadness" is "the situation that people and foxes live in harmony", and the sentence "Red fox steals chickens for these four young foxes" is the golden key to interpret "sadness", and it is this feeling that awakens my empathy. Empathy is a way of thinking from the other side's standpoint. In a given event, imagine yourself as someone else, and imagine what psychology you have because of this behavior, which triggered this event. Because I accepted this kind of psychology, I also accepted the psychology of others, thus understanding the occurrence of behaviors and events.
The feat of the fox laying down his life to save his young opened the floodgate of "I" sadness, which is also the most wonderful fragment of this article. The author still arranges the scenes as "a moonlit night" and "almost in a dream". The long howl of the red fox, the whine of the fox, the barking of the dog in the village and the barking of the father are intertwined and explosive. "I" became the key to solve the whole crisis. I changed my role, put myself in the other person's shoes and felt sorry for myself. At that moment, "I" and Red Fox reached a lofty understanding. Confucius said, "Is it forgiving? Don't do to others what you don't want. "
Reading Miss Red Fox, people who have some life experience will inevitably have the idea that four fox cubs, leaving two and returning two foxes will not solve the two difficulties of human foxes. This is a seemingly absurd assumption, but it is worth thinking about. However, the survival of animals is only guided by instinct, and only people can transcend instinct. People can choose, not just accept. Compromise is an advanced art of existence and a manifestation of human rationality. Giving up makes us more spiritually satisfied.
Miss Red Fox explores tolerance (consciousness and respect for other beings): the cruelty of the environment and the warmth of the heart; The sympathy of the strong for the weak; Survival and development instinct and instinct transcendence.
Pascal said: Man is a thinking reed. People are human because of their conscious transcendence of instinct. Jia Pingwa said in The Painter's Story that "the poor are easy to be cruel, while the rich are often gentle". What is more commendable is that he still has a heart of compassion and forgiveness when he encounters difficulties. A word "sadness" is full of introspection, pride, self-pity and even narcissism.
Why am I sad? Why are friends indifferent? What separates me from my friends?
One thing in life has gone, and it will never come back. What is this thing?
If we use a key word to sum up the difference between "me" and friends, it is a "dilemma". The difference between urban and rural areas is the appearance, but the difference in bones is the pressure. We have to say that suffering gives meaning to life, and stress makes life heavy. What really makes Liu Zhicheng cry, moved and sad is not the fox, but his own unforgettable experience and memory of his childhood experience, especially his life predicament. Remembering the red fox is the introduction, and the deep layer is people's memory of the survival mark. This is the fundamental reason why I am sad and my friends are indifferent.
The last sentence is the emotional fusion and sublimation of the full text. To understand this sentence, we should contact the whole article. The first sentence of the article reveals the root of the contradiction between man and fox; The second paragraph is a supplementary narrative, which is the starting point of the plot; The third to sixth paragraphs are about the game of fox, and the final result is the disappearance of fox.
The development of human beings and the exploitation of the environment have squeezed the living space of foxes, and foxes are forced to beg for a living in human territory. As a result of the game between humans and foxes, the disappearance of foxes has brought irreversible damage to the environment. At the same time, the fox is lost, and there are people who can still maintain and show good feelings in difficulties.
Moreover, the historical, traditional, cultural and psychological faults caused by (rapid) development often make us lost and confused. Where can we find evidence of this life when our homes are abandoned? Liu Zhicheng used such words to call on people to find themselves, return to themselves and return to the zero degree of life. We have to ask: Has the city made life better? Does wealth really promote human freedom? Development, why keep us away from happiness?
In the last paragraph, the time and space of the story is opened, and the relationship between man and fox is observed from a broader background. The starting point of thinking jumps from the relationship between man and fox, the relationship between man and environment to the relationship between man and himself, highlighting the author's loneliness in the big city, the big era and the developing modern world. We are so absorbed in the present that we forget the starting point and the end point, and even forget the scenery along the way. We are so focused on the direction that we forget to experience and review.
Miss the teaching record of Red Fox
course syllabus
Miss Red Fox is a self-reading text in the second topic "Unforgettable Story" of Selected Reading of Modern Prose published by Jiangsu Education Publishing House. Students are very interested in the touching story between man and red fox written in the article, but it is difficult to understand the rich thoughts and profound sense of hardship contained in the article. There are touching or unforgettable points in the note-taking prose. Therefore, in teaching design, we must start with the story itself, so that students can understand the story from different angles and lay a solid foundation for analysis and appreciation. The teaching process embodies the combination of presupposition and generation. Through effective dialogue between teachers and students, students can understand the fresh and cordial characteristics of the material selection of Missing the Red Fox, grasp the writing focus of the article when analyzing and appreciating it, and realize the true meaning of successful prose and the essayist's endless pursuit of wonderful beauty of prose. In the whole design, four links are highlighted: one is the training of extracting and summarizing stories; The second is the perception of "unforgettable"; Third, the understanding of humanistic ideals; Fourthly, the proper connection and promotion are expected to truly understand the ideological connotation of the works, actively explore the rich connotation of the works and deeply understand the artistic charm of the works. This is a reading instruction course, which does not pursue the perfection of teaching. In the teaching process, we should simplify the complex, fully mobilize students' independent consciousness, interpret the text from multiple angles, read out the personality and depth, actively participate in communication, so as to gain emotional experience and enjoy beauty and share the pleasure of reading. Through teachers' guidance and students' learning, we should try our best to teach and learn with Miss Red Fox in an equal atmosphere, make good use of teaching materials as an example, accumulate appreciation experience step by step, enrich the emotional world, mobilize the internal motivation of learning, teach students to learn by reading an article, and constantly improve their literary literacy through appropriate expansion.
Teaching record
A Record of Miss Red Fox's Teaching (Excerpt)
Teacher: Students, only things with unique significance can be deeply hidden in people's hearts, only things that touch the strings of the soul can be unforgettable, and only unforgettable stories can give people the edification of beauty and the enlightenment of wisdom. Today, we are going to study "Miss the Red Fox" by Liu Zhicheng, a famous essayist. This article is not long. Now you have four minutes. Please read the full text by yourself.
(Students read the text carefully by themselves)
Teacher: Who can tell us that this article tells us an unforgettable story? Please repeat it in the first person.
Health: One moonlit night, a red fox stole a hen from my house. A few days later, my father and I recognized that the red fox who stole the chicken was standing on a sand dune not far away on the way back from hoeing, so we burned in the fire of revenge and vowed to catch the chicken thief. As a result, we wasted a lot of energy. Later, we found the red fox's nest and took its four cubs home. A few days later, on a moonlit night, the red fox once again entered my yard, howled and stood on the door leaf, grabbed the door with its claws, and then knelt in my yard, screaming and begging its children to come back. Finally, the mother returned the cub to the mother of the red fox.
Teacher: Good. What are the characteristics of the structure of the article?
Health: The story begins with the encounter between the fox and the man, highlighting the tension between the fox and the man, and then explaining the story in a supplementary narrative way, and then writing the story in chronological order. The article highlights two locations in the story, focusing on the touching scene in the yard.
Teacher: What effect has this technique of alternating time and space achieved?
Health: The plot is more touching and the theme is more prominent.
Teacher: Good! Can you sum up this text into a story?
Health: It is an unforgettable story between man and fox.
Teacher: Good. What is unforgettable about this story?
Health: It has strong regional characteristics and has written special stories under the special geographical environment in the northwest.
Student: Very original. It was said that the chicken thief and the red fox were hateful, and then with a pen, people saw the maternal side of the red fox. Because her child was robbed, the red fox let out a pitiful wail, which was even more unforgettable without the fierceness of stealing chickens and dogs in the past, especially when the red fox took away four cubs.
Student: The stories about sending exams, the Spring Festival in Beijing and shoes are all true and natural, and this story is as unique in material as watching social dramas. On the surface, it is a sentimental story, but in fact it has many implications.
Teacher: The students have a good eye. This article is unique. After a while, we will.
Meet the essayist. Please read the text notes first.
(Students read the text notes by themselves)
Teacher: Let me add one more point. Now, please study the text again and communicate later.
(Students read the text carefully)
Teacher: Now let's have a talk. Requirements: point out what you read is unforgettable and share with you the reasons why you are unforgettable.
Health: The penultimate paragraph of the article is unforgettable. "In the bright moonlight night, there was a long howl in the yard ... I found that the red fox was much thinner than that day, with dim eyes and faint tears in his eyes. A kind of sadness suddenly attacked me. I wiped the tears from the corner of my eyes with my arm. Dad's barking suddenly sounded in the yard. I couldn't help but feel tight, only to find that the tall and powerful German shepherd next door had appeared in the yard, panting to attack the fox, and was hugged by my father. Red fox hasn't left yet, but her voice is hoarse and she makes a heartbreaking cry. Mother held four cubs and gently put them outside the door. The red fox couldn't wait to pick up the cub and take a look at us and disappear into the vast night. "Red fox regardless of their own safety, unexpected, very touching; "I" and my family were moved by the red fox, and the people's choice of goodness was also touching. The red fox and my family here are admirable and touching.
Health: I think the fifth paragraph is also unforgettable: "The red fox followed us all the way and cried, and the four little foxes on my coat are also crying at the moment." I chased it impatiently several times, but I couldn't get rid of it. It didn't stop until it was near the village, and looked at us whiningly. My heart has softened, and I want to let go of this little fox. When I hesitated, I suddenly remembered the flower hen who prepared my tuition, so I spat at the red fox and turned to catch up with my father. "On the one hand, I wrote the grief and helplessness of the red fox mother and son, on the other hand, I wrote the inner conflict of' me'. This is a tragic scene. The red fox is in sharp opposition to human beings. The sad wailing and wailing of the red fox mother and son are not only ignored, but also the difficult and painful choices made by human beings because of their lives are thought-provoking.
Health: ...
Teacher: What the students said just now is well-founded and the analysis is very personal. Let's discuss the "moral" of Miss Red Fox, that is, the profound connotation and wisdom enlightenment of the article. Let's take a look at what the author said first.
(Projection) I wrote Miss Red Fox, which is not only an attempt in writing, but also my concern for the harmonious coexistence between man and nature. When I was a child, foxes often ran in the sand near my home, and sometimes they made a low cry. At that time, what foxes hated most was grabbing chickens. They will pretend that nothing happened and stand on the mountain near my home. Sometimes, I also eat lean lamb. We are particularly disgusted with foxes. As soon as we see foxes, we will call our friends and chase them until they disappear. (Liu Zhicheng's "On the Creation of Missing Red Fox")
It seems that this article really has a moral. Please share the "hint" you found.
Health: I think this essay is very real, with the texture of life, or at least the truth of art, full of anxiety. Poor Chengfeng, a female fox had to risk her life to steal a chicken to tide over the difficulties in order to bear the heavy responsibility of raising her cubs. When the cubs are kidnapped, they choose to follow, whine and beg. An ordinary mother, in order to cultivate her children's growth as much as possible, pinned her hope of solving her son's school expenses on a hen, but as a result, the hen had an accident and her mother was very sad. In the face of sudden hope, a group of fox cubs were carefully fed by their mothers' unique kindness and care. But when they saw a scene where disaster was even more tragic than their red fox mother begging for release, they showed their great and loving feelings as mothers and resolutely let the fox cubs go and reunite with their mother and son. This is not only an ode to suffering, but also a tribute to motherhood, and it is also a high awakening of survival consciousness.
Health: Miss Red Fox is not only a vision of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, but also contains a sense of hardship and ultimate concern for the whole mankind. The article has written many times that the red fox disappeared into the vast darkness. The first time: "I rubbed my eyes, and before I knew it, I saw a red fireball passing by my eyes and jumping on the courtyard wall. The arrow generally disappeared in the vast night." The second time: "... the red fox couldn't wait to pick up the cub and look at us and disappear into the boundless darkness." Disappeared in the boundless darkness shows a sense of hardship and ultimate concern here. The timid escape of the red fox is an extreme distrust of human beings and an instinctive response to their long-term hostility and cruelty. In the long run, mankind will not only lose the friends of nature, but also be retaliated by nature, leading to the ultimate destruction of human homes.
Life is equal, all life has its own life pursuit, and human beings are more obligated to protect the natural environment and treat all life well. People's love and sympathy for the red fox is also a call for the meaning of life. Letting the fox cubs go can actually show human dignity.
Health: ...
Teacher: Indeed, the verisimilitude and sense of life in Miss Red Fox are burning the fire of care, which tells the attitude of a life to others from the perspective of life equality. In meticulous realism, there is a little subjective philosophy that tears suffering and nature to the fullest; It not only takes care of the true lyricism of life, but also cuts into the theme of suffering with a kind of sad affection, focusing on the anxiety and pain of life between the lines; In fact, this is the vision of life, and it is also the highest sublimation of a writer's sense of hardship, reaching a noble ideological realm. This is an allegorical essay, which is the carrier of human profound thoughts and broad feelings. Its moral value aims to lead people across a closed "region", reach a height of life in line with the destiny of the whole mankind, and show people a broad and lasting charm. In this unique way, this article communicates the world between man and fox with anthropomorphic expression and symbolic art form, and the artistic realm of "physical property" and "humanity" is amazing. Who can give another example of fable prose?
Health: For example, Happy Travel, which we learned, ostensibly tells the stories of Kun Peng, Kun Ge, Xue Ge and others. In fact, everything is waiting, but people have to pursue the realm of waiting. Similarly, in Commemorating the Red Fox, on the surface, it describes the story of man and the red fox, but in fact, it appeals to human beings to embody the broad mind of the spirit of all things, eliminate hostility, resolve contradictions and live in harmony with nature. I don't think this fable is a completely real life, but it is very interesting. Fable is a concrete image story, which is thought-provoking in itself.
Teacher: I think the title of the article should be Red Fox or The Story of Red Fox. Why did you name it "Remembering the Red Fox"?
Health: lack of clear emotional tendency on the topic of "red fox"; The title of "The Story of Red Fox" seems to be red fox, which lacks rich connotation; On the one hand, the theme of "Remember the Red Fox" highlights the writing of the past, and it is also a meaningful past worth remembering. On the other hand, I hope that human beings will gain wisdom from animals, be more moved by the story of the red fox, and arouse the conscience of respecting all life, caring for all life and living in harmony with animals.
Teacher: Which paragraphs of the text imply "nostalgia"?
Health: The last paragraph of the article is meaningful: "After many years, the sad cry of the red fox still clearly echoes in my ears, gently touching my memory and making me sad." I tried to share my feelings with friends in some cities, but they were indifferent. I know that some things in life have passed away and will never come back ... "The author's" sadness "is in sharp contrast with his friend's" indifference ". The author's cherish of life and longing for harmony are always lingering in his mind, but they are not understood and accepted by modern people. For example, "many years later", "once" and "something has gone and will never come back" all imply nostalgia.
Teacher: The text contains the harmony between man and nature, and shows the sense of hardship and ultimate concern for all mankind. Please read the last paragraph of the article.
(Students read the last paragraph together)
Teacher: Please read the following two paragraphs and talk about your feelings.
(Projections show Bi Shumin's Wisdom of the Female Wolf (excerpt) and Paul Foer's Bowing to Life (excerpt))
Health: Animals have the same feelings as human beings. The cruelty of human beings has led to a series of tragedies that should not have happened.
Health: Human beings cannot base their survival and development on killing animals that should be human friends.
Health: Motherly love is the most selfless and touching, and maternal culture is an important carrier of natural culture.
Health: ...
Teacher: The students are very touched. After class, they can develop more fully in connection with relevant reading experience or life experience, and write a complete review of about 800 words. Students, prose is the most distinctive and popular. Through the study of the contemporary prose classic "Remember the Red Fox" and the understanding of "Bowing Down to Life" and "The Wisdom of the Female Wolf", I have a perceptual understanding of the "broad, clear, solid and open independent form" of prose (Wei 'an) and the related information links in this topic. Suffering experience and overflowing passion will lead to successful prose. The low standard of prose is "clarity" and strict requirements, that is, endless pursuit of Excellence and beauty. I hope that students can understand the characteristics of prose through extensive reading, accumulate appreciation experience and activate their writing enthusiasm.