Chapter 504: An Unexpected Confession

The first point is self-redemption.

The premise of self-redemption is the loss of the self, which carries with it the universality of adolescence, which is one of the reasons for the continued popularity of "Norwegian Wood". Just like the existence of 16-year-old fantasy boys and girls has Qiong Yaofever, there are young boys and girls who are young and competitive, and there are readers of Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood". Most of the protagonists are typical of those who lost themselves in adolescence. Watanabe, who is about 19 years old and can't determine his place in the world around him, gets lost; 20-year-old Naoko, who doesn't understand anything and even has difficulty expressing it, is lost; Kizuki, who is forever 17 years old, is lost; Reiko, who "doesn't know where the screw of her head flew", was lost; Yongze and Hatsumi also lost themselves in the youth period. I'm afraid that only Midoriko has never lost herself, for Midoriko, all she has is loneliness, and it is the impulse to knock on the closed doors of her heart. For the author, Haruki Murakami, Midoriko is an oasis, a hope to save the dry in the desert of youth. All she had was pain, the pain of caring for the sick and the constant toiling in the night room. Like Christ Jesus, he is the savior that the author has set up. The savior is blindfolded with pain to get out of the trap of confusion. Of course, Midoriko is not exactly the same as Jesus, and she still has that kind of happiness that comes from her self.

But the author gives the same and simple way of redemption for this loss of adolescence, that is, love, friendship, escape, and fantasy, a simple and identical way that has reaped success in some and failure in others. Kizuki chooses Naoko's love and Watanabe's friendship for self-redemption, and the harvest is death. Naoko chooses Watanabe's love and Reiko's friendship and escape, but in the end, because she is a part of Kizuki and is directly responsible for Kizuki's death, this irretrievable reason still reaps death is failure. In contrast, Reiko chose her husband's love, but it was also unsuccessful, and she lived in "Ameiliao" for recuperation; chose the escape of "Amei Liao", but also did not succeed, and lived here for eight years; Chose the friendship between Naoko and Watanabe.,And with the determination to not want to stay in "Ameliao" until "moldy", he rushed out of the lost desert. He returned to the world and achieved the success of redemption.

Although Haruki Murakami has repeatedly deliberately completed the dissolution of meaning, we can see from the success of the self-redemption of the characters in "Norwegian Wood" that Reiko and Watanabe's self-redemption success has one thing in common, that is, they have completed the self-salvation in the redemption of others. This is also the meaning of "Norwegian Wood". The road to redemption in youth is not the love of the sexes, but the love for society and others. This is because the root cause of all this is not caused by the natural attributes of human beings, but by the social attributes of human beings, and it is this cold capitalist society that is causing trouble.

"That's right, young people should be like this, boldly pursue love, cherish emotions, the same, you will also hesitate and choose to escape, it is precisely because of this that it can be regarded as life." Zhou Ruocheng said.

Zhou Ruocheng's understanding is very general, but it also hits the nail on the head, what are the pedants here, and how many of them haven't read this book? If you want to talk about authority, they are definitely more powerful than Zhou Ruocheng, but even so, these pedants still haven't found a little room to refute from what Zhou Ruocheng said, and they can't be convinced.

The second theme of the work is loneliness.

Younger generations are less bound by traditional ideas, they can easily get lost in the rich material world, and they don't even know how to meet the challenges of the real world. They no longer face difficulties and have difficulty communicating with each other, and this is not only the current situation in Japan, but also young people can be seen all over the world in a state of isolation and loneliness. Naoko and her original lover Kizuki in "Norwegian Wood" ended their lives by suicide, which is nothing more than that the two have been in an environment that is almost isolated from the outside world, and as they grow older, they are unable to communicate with the complicated outside world. When he found that he couldn't integrate into real life, Kizuki chose to commit suicide without any warning; And Naoko has been struggling desperately after Kizuki's death, wanting to get out of the shadow of Kizuki's death and wanting to open her mind to a richer world; The book contains a large description of the beautiful natural scenery of the sanatorium where Naoko lives, and in this poetic and dreamlike artistic conception, it brilliantly highlights and renders the other world that Naoko's heart longs for, a strange spiritual world that is opposed to reality. In a sense, it can be said that this world is just a dream for Naoko, although Naoko struggles in this dream, but the opposition and entanglement between the real world and the dream world make Naoko's deep pain and soul struggle harder, and in the end she can only escape this pain by ending her own life; Even the lively and active Midoriko felt the loneliness of being abandoned in both the home and school environments, and told more than once. And the protagonist Watanabe, who always has a huge loneliness in his heart, walks alone in the journey of life. The writer deliberately portrays the euphemistic and lingering spiritual love between Watanabe and Naoko with desolate and tragic strokes. "Naoko used her simple and fiery love and tragic life of martyrdom to express the conflict between ideals and reality and the purgatory-like spiritual process of a generation."

When Watanabe and Naoko walk aimlessly together on the streets, in the bustling crowd of strangers, the trauma of growing up faintly emerges, the surging traffic and the noisy sound of the city carry the atmosphere of the city, the surrounding completely strange crowd constitutes an empty and crowded environment, the anxious and empty inner world of urban people, the confused and fragile state of existence, is best interpreted behind the author's weightless narrative.

"So, do you feel lonely, students?" Zhou Ruocheng asked as if he was chatting with a friend.

"Sometimes I feel quite lonely, even though I have a family and a large family, but even so. I still feel inexplicably lonely at times... Zhou Ruocheng's expression was a little declining, "Loneliness, it should be said that it is a unique feeling of contemporary youth, sometimes it is really unreasonable, and others can't reach it, but you have to learn to overcome it, and enjoy it." ”

"Teacher, do you have any tips for dealing with loneliness?" One student asked.

"No," Zhou Ruocheng replied very calmly, "You can only endure it slowly, slowly get used to it, this is the so-called growth." ”

"This guy, is you going to take philosophy class again?" Lin Yixuan said helplessly.

"Only in this way can we get to the hearts of students by relying on our own extraordinary talents and close methods, and we can also let students learn something." Jiang Xue commented.

"Okay, that's the third point." Zhou Ruocheng began to introduce the work again, "But this third point is not so much the theme as the artistic characteristics, which are unique to the author and come from the characteristics of Haruki Murakami." ”

"Norwegian Wood" is originally a Beatles song, and the protagonist Naoko in the book feels alone in the depths of the cold and frozen forest every time she listens to this song, which is the characteristic of the hesitation, fear, groping, and confusion that youth must go through. The male protagonist Watanabe has tried many times to save Naoko who is lost in himself, but sometimes even he loses his way. The younger generation living in the city, in contrast to the greater the isolation of the urban space, makes them lose the desire to contact with people, which is the protective shield for the younger generation to avoid injury. Connected by pieces, but without feeling disorganized. "Lots of fragments of everyday life – passing by before our eyes, evoke a familiar and intimate atmosphere, and make people resonate with the heart." The atmosphere exists in the fragments, or in the blank space between the fragments. "The text is clear and elegant, the brushstrokes are natural and smooth, and the continuation of the pieces does not hinder the smoothness, but adds more elasticity and produces an effect." The characters in the characters are all with the "logo of urbanization", the background of the characters is very simple, there are no intricate interpersonal relationships, the protagonist's favorite jazz music continues to appear, and always directly quotes the words of a certain writer to express emotions, making the characters flat and symbolic.

"Only the simplest can be the most popular in people's hearts." Zhou Ruocheng said.

"Having said all that, who can summarize the central idea of the article I just said?" Zhou Ruocheng asked the many students present.

Naturally, many students raised their hands.

"Ahh Are you still so positive? First of all, I'm going to ask only one student today. Zhou Ruocheng said.

"Teacher! I! A loud but familiar voice reached Zhou Ruocheng's ears.

Zhou Ruocheng looked up and saw a girl staring at him.

Zhou Ruocheng remembered... This isn't the ninth class, what's it called? The girl who almost mistook her and Wang Luoning.

It was for this reason that Zhou Ruocheng named her.

"This classmate, you can answer." Zhou Ruocheng still called her up.

"The article is telling us that contemporary young people must endure loneliness, and they must also pursue their own family, friendship, and love. The other party replied.

Zhou Ruocheng also nodded, "Well... You're not wrong about what you say, so sit down first. As he spoke, he was going to turn around and write a summary of the board.

However, at this time, the students behind them began to call themselves again, "So Master, I also want to pursue my own love, in the simplest way!" ”

Zhou Ruocheng was also stunned, this master is really familiar and makes people feel a little afraid.

When I turned my head in a little panic, I saw the girl standing on the table with a serious face, looking at herself, "I like you!" Master! ”