The first textbook is Pearl's Poor Spring. Buck, USA-barren spring
This article describes the life of the bottom farmers in China in a profound and detailed way. As the first lesson, she inspired the deaf and played an important role in inspiring young intellectuals to believe in saving the country and strengthening the people.
However, there is not much information about this essay on the Internet. I made some notes, hoping that more people can read this article and get to know the author Pearl Buck.
In this story, the famine after the flood made farmer Lao Liu fall into endless despair. In order to maintain the family's life, after eating all the food, they ate the seeds for sowing, killed the buffalo in the cultivated land, and even cut off the plow to cook beef. Even so, Lao Liu lost his old mother, father, little daughter and a weak son.
The author describes the despair when Lao Liu killed the buffalo: "This despair caught him and made him an irrational person ... He has gathered his rational power, and he did what he said he would never do."
She did not say that Liu was desperate, nor did she say that despair enveloped him. She used the word "grab", as if despair was active and tangible, and roared and grabbed Liu, and a sense of helplessness spread like this.
She said that Lao Liu needed to "gather his weak strength" to kill the cow he vowed never to kill, which not only encouraged his weakness, but also tried to support his dying body.
Then describe the protagonist's mentality after finally starting work. "Even in despair, he groaned, because it was like killing his brother through him. For him, this is the final sacrifice. "
The groans in the depths of despair and the self-righteous "final sacrifice" made farmer Liu's determination and indignation jump from the paper. But what Lao Liu didn't know at that time was that in the following days, his bottom line would be repeatedly penetrated by cruel reality, and more sacrifices would follow.
She wrote that when the old mother finally failed to survive and died, Lao Liu had to have a big fight with his "cruel" wife so that her mother could still be buried in her underwear, otherwise her wife would strip her rags for her children. Even so, there are fewer and fewer relatives left. ...
She wrote that in the cold winter of famine, peach trees, apricot trees and willow trees around the yard were cut down and sold. Spring came, and farmer Lao Liu didn't even know it until his wife climbed out and dug some dandelion buds to eat.
But compared with the hopeless winter, the arrival of spring did not bring joy to the protagonist. Looking forward to spring in winter, Liu, a farmer who misses farming countless times, is empty-handed in spring. He has fertile land, but no seeds!
He felt helpless, just like a leaf causing a flood. He felt helpless, just like a leaf thrown into the flood. The word "tossing" here is also very implicit, not words like "falling" or "dripping". The passive form shows the hero's helplessness and helplessness in the famine years.
Finally, "he looked hopefully at the barren spring." The ending is fixed on Liu, a farmer who is sitting on the ground. A close-up of his face gives him empty and hopeless eyes, which makes people feel that this helplessness and desolation seems to be in front of them.
In a few words, Pearl Buck described the representative events and details, the final picture and the miserable and helpless pain in front of readers, so as to arouse the voice of * * *.
She doesn't comment, but she can feel sympathy everywhere. Without a deep understanding of life and a sympathetic heart, it is impossible to reach such a state.
Here, we should cross a century and pay tribute to Mr. Pearl Buck who cares about China!