Book Review of "The Worry-Free Grocery Store"

When I finished reading "Jieyou Grocery Store" for the first time, I felt that this work was a "work of coincidence". The author worked hard to put people and things from different eras together one after another. coincidence.

In order to write a book review, I read the book carefully again, and found that the ring structure conceived by Keigo Higashino is ingenious and profound.

?The characters in the book can be divided into two categories. One category is ordinary people who have troubles and sorrows like us. Kosuke, who has a family change, Midori Kawabe, who is pregnant before marriage, and Krona, who pursues his dream of being a singer, are similar because they all have a gap in their hearts, and because of the existence of the gap, the warmth in their hearts is lost little by little; they are different. , because the shapes of the gaps are different. Haojie's gap is about parents, Kawabe Midori's gap is about children, and Kerang's gap is about dreams as well as father and son.

As readers have felt, those involved in the incident are often unable to make up for their own shortcomings and often need to borrow the help of others. In the story, the ones who fill the gap in their hearts are the worry-solvers, namely Yuji Namiya and Shota in the book.

When ordinary people write letters and the worry-solvers reply, the structure of the story will appear linear, with all the worries ending with two worry-solvers at one end and the other at the end. The problem with this structure is that it ignores the fact that Yuji Namiya and Shota are not only people who relieve worries, but also ordinary people. There is also a gap in their hearts. Naniya is worried about whether the person who receives his reply is better off or worse off. Shota, who grew up in an orphanage, still doesn't know where his future lies.

Because the worry-relieving person also needs help from others, No Keigo cleverly used time travel to build a ring structure so that people 32 years later can reply to Namiya and let Namiya write 32 years later. Shota replied, so that the gap between the first and last two people could be bridged. It also gives readers a sense of completion when they close the book.

On the eve of National Day, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the World Cup with 11 consecutive victories, which was quite exciting. Zhu Ting, the captain of the women's volleyball team, even won the MVP title for the second time. In the 2016 Rio Olympics women's volleyball group stage, 22-year-old Zhu Ting did not play well. Her opponent's targeted defense greatly affected her confidence, which also indirectly caused the Chinese team to lose three games in the group stage. In the competition, they had to face the defending champion Brazil in the quarter-finals.

Zhu Ting’s abnormal performance was noticed by head coach Lang Ping. The night before the match with Brazil, Coach Lang used a text message to fill in Zhu Ting’s heart called " "Confidence" gap, the text message read:

"Zhu Ting, I have apprentices all over the world. It is a very lucky thing for you and me to be masters and apprentices. Now that the war is going on, I believe in you, You also have to believe in yourself, you are the best and the best when you are on the court."

The next day, the Chinese team reversed the host country 3:2 at the Brazilian team's home court and advanced to the semi-finals. Later, he won the gold medal.

Me who writes tweets and you who read tweets are also ordinary people, and it is inevitable that there will be gaps in our hearts. Sometimes the gap is small, and a few words with a close friend can suddenly make things clear; sometimes the gap is quite big, and it cannot be easily solved in a few words, so pour a glass of wine, drink slowly, and chat slowly, even if it cannot fill the gap for us. , the kindness of friends can also warm my heart through the gap.

I really like the ring structure in "The Worry-Free Grocery Store" and hope that this ring structure will continue in life. Give our friends and readers some warmth with an egg for breakfast.