Harvard Faculty of Letters.

If you talk about the highest university of American literature, it is Harvard University, and there is no one.

The university has produced a total of 9 Nobel laureates in literature, and is proud of the world.

Every year, the graduates of Harvard Grammar School have become elites in the field of literature. In well-known magazines, best-selling novels, well-known Hollywood screenplays, literary academic research...... In the group, they often appear.

At this time, in the 1809 class of the sophomore at Harvard Grammar School, there was a constant discussion of something.

"Don't think about it, although the author of Juvenile Pi buries a lot of metaphors in his novels, they are not as exaggerated as rumored by the outside world. Is it really a metaphor for any plot, character, or setting? I don't think it's possible, as for where the protagonist's father and brother went, it must be said that they were shipwrecked, and both father and brother died in the shipwreck. ”

In that case, why did my father and brother explain it in such detail at the beginning? If they don't have some metaphors, why spend so much time on them?"

"It's not difficult to answer this question, if it weren't for his father and brother, the protagonist would probably still be a little sheep. The father told the protagonist that animals are animals and people are people. Let the protagonist understand that animals and people are different, and animals can never be friends. At the same time, the more pragmatic older brother also teaches the protagonist in other aspects. If there is no father and brother, I am afraid that even if the kind-hearted protagonist starves to death, I am afraid that it will not be possible to make the decision to eat human flesh. ”

"I don't agree with that. The author HYF has gone to great lengths to write such a seemingly illusory story, is it really unreal? If it doesn't have a certain meaning, I don't think this novel has much meaning at all. ”

"That's what I thought, too. ”

"Let's talk about Cannibal Island, what's going on on Cannibal Island. The author writes a plot of a cannibal island, and there will be no hints. ”

"I don't think this cannibal island is real. ”

"Cannibal Island isn't real?"

"Yes, I just looked it up, and the author said that there are thousands of meerkats on Cannibal Island, but this animal called meerkats doesn't live on the island, they live in the desert. Although I don't know what kind of creature the meerkat is, since the author writes about the meerkat, he should know what kind of animal the meerkat is, but don't you think it's strange that he put the meerkat on the cannibal island that can't exist on the island?"

"It's weird, but that doesn't mean it's a dream. ”

"I'm just guessing, after all, Cannibal Island is too strange, there are not only meerkats on the island, but they are not afraid of death and let the tigers eat them. At the same time, the branches of the trees on the island have lotus flowers, and there are teeth on the lotus flowers. If this is not a dream, it is really difficult to explain that there is such an island. ”

"The author of all evils, why did he end the story without saying anything clearly. ”

"Maybe he's written it clearly, but we don't know. ”

"Do we have to read a novel like a detective? Well, though I know that finding out the truth is more meaningful than reading any novel. ”

"Alright, stop discussing, Professor Steven is here. ”

This class was Professor Steven's class, and when Professor Steven arrived, the students who had been discussing it just now stopped talking. However, Steven seemed to hear the conversation of his classmates, smiled, and said to everyone, "Why, it's all stopped, and everyone continues to discuss." Actually, I've been reading the novel of Life Pi recently, and it's very good. ”

"Wow, Professor Steven, you read this novel too?"

Seeing Professor Steven speak, the students were a little excited.

"How could I not read such a creative novel, you don't know, no matter what the book is, I will read it. ”

"Great, Professor Steven, we've been discussing a lot of puzzling questions in the Young School. For example, where did the protagonist's father and brother go, and what does Cannibal Island mean? ”

Professor Steven has always been a signature figure at Harvard, and it is rumored that half of the books in the Harvard University Library have been read by Steven. Although this seems to be a bit fake, it at least proves that Professor Steven likes to read very much, and it is precisely because Professor Steven likes to read very much that some media people even directly gave Professor Steven a nickname - Book Devil.

"There is research, alas, I have been thinking about it for several days, and my hair has fallen out a lot. ”

Steven is a very funny and humorous professor, as he said.

Everyone knows that Professor Steven is actually a big bald head, and there is no hair anywhere.

This made a group of students almost squirt, and they all said, "Professor, don't make trouble, we really want to know the answer, you can say it quickly." ”

"For your beseek's sake, then I will speak. ”

In fact, the literature class is very casual, and this lesson was originally intended by Professor Steven to explain domestic classics. However, when he heard the students discuss the Youth School, Professor Steven decided to explain the Life School on the fly. Although Juvenile Pi is not a famous novel, this novel is indeed the most innovative novel among recent North American novels, and it is not impossible to talk about it.

"Actually, this story ......"

As soon as he spoke, Steven paused, "Speaking of this story, it is quite complicated, and for the time being, I can't fully explain the truth of the whole story to you." Before opening up the truth, let's talk about the writing technique of the novel Life Pi. There is a very creative aspect of this novel, which I believe you all know, that is, the clever use of metaphors between the various plots. And the use of this metaphor is seamless, simply ingenious, and commendable. ”

"Yes, Professor Steven, we also admire the author of Life Pi very much. This also opened our writing horizons, it turns out that in addition to the pursuit of meaning and the expression of reality, this kind of exquisite and exquisite part is also so eye-catching. ”

One of the students stood up and interacted with Professor Steven.

"Yes, it's a very creative business writing idea, and it's similar to Hollywood movies. So, let's start with the author's ingenious layout. Let's think of the story with the tiger as the first story and the story without the tiger as the second story. In the first story, the author has already hinted at us in many places that the first story is not true. For example, the orangutan on the banana, but we didn't know it at the time, and when the protagonist actually told the second story, we found out that the first story was fake. It's just that there is a problem here that many students may not think of. Since the first story is fake, can't the second story be fake?"

Speaking of this, Steven smiled slightly, "I think the author of Life School, HYF, is definitely a psychologist, and he is too good at grasping the psychology of readers." The first story is magical, like his name, very fantastical. There are tigers, drifting streams, and holy light that you see after overcoming difficulties, this is simply an inspirational drama. At the same time, I have to admire the author's clever metaphors once again, he allows the protagonist to tell the second story, because the metaphor makes us fall into his trap step by step.

Just as once we know the truth, we will always look for the metaphors that the author has written in the novel. It wasn't until one metaphor after another was dug up that we were already stunned by the author's perfect layout. Eventually, we believe the second story as told by the protagonist. And, think that the first story is false, and the second story is the truth.

Just, is that really the case?"

Steven continued to smile, "I think this kind of writing technique of the Juvenile author is very worthy of our learning, if you want to study Juvenile Pi, then you have to jump out of the trap set by the author." Everyone should remember that all the stories in Pi, including the first story and the second story, whether there is a tiger or not, are actually told by the protagonist. The protagonist can tell the truth and can also tell lies. Or rather, the protagonist can tell half the truth and half the lie. ”

At this point in the plot, it can't be described as complicated.

It's a brain-opening thing you can't even think of.

When the students heard the professor's analysis, their eyes widened.

They thought that their analysis was deep enough, but when the professor analyzed, they realized that their original analysis and understanding of Juvenile Pi probably hadn't even touched the surface. (To be continued.) )