This book was written by michael ende (1929- 1995), a German writer of contemporary children's literature and fantasy literature.
Generally speaking, philosophical literature gives people a cold feeling, lacking human touch and interest. However, people praised Ender's works as "recovering lost fantasies and dreams for children and adults in a cold and soulless world".
Ender is also a prolific and efficient writer. His other works, such as Mao Mao, Never-ending Story and Never-ending Fairy Tale, have also become world-famous works and are familiar to readers in China.
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In addition, he is also a writer of narrative nursery rhymes, poems and plays, and is called a master between children's literature and fantasy literature.
Different from other picture books, the picture book Turtle is a picture book with music scores.
That is to say, in addition to the usual words and pictures, music is composed according to the characteristics of the story, so that readers can enjoy the plot of the story while reading the picture book.
So for readers in China, the cover of this book we see includes the author, graphic author, composer and translator. The works of these four authors have made this classic picture book.
Through teacher Qingyun's explanation, I not only expanded and deepened my understanding of picture book stories, but also gained new knowledge.
0 1 Observe the cover, and mine the transmitted information.
Holding the cover of the picture book Turtle, the most striking thing is a chinemys reevesii, deep in the forest, looking at us with wide eyes, surrounded by flowers and plants, holding a flag in his hand and a red scarf around his neck.
This is a turtle that inherits the protagonist of this book, surrounded by flowers and trees on the roadside. The flag represents the trainee knight in the Middle Ages and is also a symbol of courage. The red scarf also meant courage at that time. Such figures and decorations set off this turtle as a brave, stubborn and determined turtle.
Interestingly, translator He Shan translated the title of the book into Stubborn Tortoise, and the modifier Stubborn is composed of the prefixes Zhuang and Niu, so it means "bull with a tough attitude" and "bull temper".
So the title of the book also reflects the uniqueness of this turtle. She has a stubborn personality. Therefore, the translation of the film title can also be regarded as the ingenuity of the translator, to the point and to point out the central idea of the story.
Debate and Thinking on Two Theories Caused by 02 Stories
The picture book Turtle tells the story of a turtle named Tao Tao. After a long journey, he finally reached his destination and attended the next wedding celebration of the lion king.
The reason why it is a philosophical picture book is because the story reflects how to understand the relationship between teleology in classical literature and tortoise's self-transcendence.
In the history of philosophy, there has always been a debate between teleology and naturalism.
Aristotle, the representative figure of teleology, believes that everything in nature has its purpose. For example, people have a pair of eyes because of the need of visual function, and human beings have gradually developed into a pair of eyesight that can see everything in the world.
Lucretius, a representative figure of naturalism, believes that biological organs in nature evolve according to their functions. Because people have eyes and eyes.
It can be seen that the story of Tortoise has the characteristics of teleology. The tortoise, which has been crawling slowly, takes pains and is not afraid of the long journey. After a day and a night of deliberation, he decided to go to his destination-Lion Cave, in order to attend the celebration of the Lion King.
This picture book not only tells us why we should strive to achieve a goal, why we should do it, but also try our best to do it.
More importantly, on our way forward, there will be all kinds of encounters and landscapes along the way, as well as the spirit of chasing dreams that needs to constantly overcome external obstacles and dare to transcend self-instinct.
During the long journey, the tortoise met many animals, including pigeons, spiders, snails and geckos. Some of them told the tortoise that she was going in the wrong direction, the wedding was cancelled, the 28th lion king had died, and so on.
According to the teleological point of view, since these factors that affect the destination do not exist, the journey becomes meaningless. These events have lost the momentum of development and have no reason to exist.
Therefore, people began to doubt teleology.
But in fact, although the tortoise in the story was told that he could not attend the 28th Lion King Celebration on time, what is the significance of the tortoise moving on without hesitation?
For example, there will be an important exam tomorrow. According to teleology, we must review quickly tonight.
Suppose tomorrow's exam is cancelled, what will you do tonight? Do you want to continue studying? Or give up studying?
According to teleology, is tonight's study meaningless because of the cancellation of the exam?
In the story, the tortoise did not give up because of others' dissuasion, but still insisted on moving towards the destination. So this stubborn and unreasonable "stubbornness" is really like what other animals say. Is the tortoise a madman or a big fool? This problem deserves our consideration.
Many readers may think that this is the author's deliberate display of writing skills and playing with readers.
But we think that since the tortoise is a deliberate act of "thinking all day and one night, Tao Tao finally made up his mind", this stubbornness is not only stubbornness and stubbornness, but also a firm belief that it will definitely come, which is worth learning.
Therefore, when making a choice, we should not only act according to the narrow teleology, but also consider the cultivation of people's personality, beliefs, will and the growth of life. Even if the result of our actions is failure, it is an experience and experience, perhaps to prepare for the next real success.
Push down the geographical environment according to the map.
The pictures in the picture book contain rich details. First, look at the position of the tortoise. Combined with the map in the real world, turtles should live on the Mediterranean coast of Libya, a North African country, and belong to the subtropical zone.
How did you know? This book provides three points of information:
First, at the beginning of the book, it is mentioned that "there is an old olive tree above her head". Olive trees only grow in the coastal areas of the southern Mediterranean.
Secondly, the book also mentions that two pigeons and turtles live in an olive tree, and their headdresses remind us that this is the decoration of the Arab nation.
Third, the names of pigeons are Zuleika and Salomo, which are typical Arabic anxing and female names.
Secondly, explore the location of the lion cave. The Lion King Cave is where the tortoise is going. Where is it? How far is it?
There is an African country Congo on the map, which is located in the Mediterranean Sea and belongs to the African savanna climate. From the actual distance, it is nearly 3000 kilometers. Wow, that's a long journey for a slow-crawling turtle.
We guess that Tao Tao, the tortoise, may yearn for the living conditions there, where it is more free and there are many animals running and inhabiting on the grassland.
This journey, for him, is a complete change in life, this turning point in life, but also an opportunity to challenge himself.
To sum up, this kind of picture book seems to be a simple story, which needs to dig deep into the information provided by each picture and think about the philosophical thought contained in it. Only in this way can we understand the beauty and educational significance brought by picture books better and more comprehensively.