Douban 8.6 "Shouting in the Drizzle": Weighing the beauty and ugliness of human nature from the world of children

Having nothing to do in the past few days, I picked up the book "Shouting in the Drizzle" that I bought three months ago and has not yet opened. In fact, I have not read Yu Hua's book before. I have only vaguely heard of the contents of his novels: blood, darkness, death, and humanity. I didn't expect to gain much from reading this book. However, the appeal of this book simply fascinated me. For this reason, I also wrote the first book review in my life. I don’t know much about book reviews, or it can be said that I know nothing. If I write It's not good, or it doesn't feel like a book review, so please forgive me.

This book unfolds in the voice of a child, narrating Sun Guanglin's growth experience in the 1960s and 1970s. As a teenager, he almost ignored the existence of his parents and brothers, or more accurately, their families, and the entire village (except when he was of use). When he was six years old, he was sent to a family in the city. Five years later, he returned to his original family.

Five years later, his family has undergone earth-shaking changes. He even forgot the way home and what his parents and brothers looked like. Accompanying his return was a sudden fire, which made his father think that he was a disaster. From then on, he seemed incompatible with his family. Except for eating and sleeping together, they were like strangers and did not disturb each other.

When I read this book, the scenes of unsightly scenes directly washed away my soul. I really can’t imagine that these bloody scenes have been stored in the mind of a child in his early ten years. What a feeling.

The darkness of human nature fills our childhood with shadows

One of the most memorable passages in this book is that the domineering brother Sun Guangping used a sickle to kill Sun Guanglin one day. There was a cut on his head, and his brother, who was panicking and realizing his mistake, began to beg him for mercy. Sun Guanglin, who was already disliked by his family, finally caught on to his brother's excuse. Instead of accepting his brother's plea for mercy, he confidently ran to the fields to complain to his father.

The father looked at Sun Guanglin whose face was covered with blood, asked for the reason and strode back home. Sun Guanglin was secretly happy because he finally found a sense of existence, but what happened after returning home was enough. Let him remember it for a lifetime. His father tied a rope to the tree, but there was no figure of his brother Sun Guangping on the rope. When he was tied up, he saw a big gap in his brother Sun Guangping's head. At this time, he seemed to understand everything. .

It turned out that Sun Guangping bribed their younger brother Sun Guangming and slashed Sun Guangming's head. He told Sun Guangming: "When my father came back later, he said that he was injured first? I beat him because of you..."

I don’t know what such a misunderstanding means to a teenage child, and I don’t know how bad the relationship between Sun Guanglin and his family can get. Where to. Like Sun Guanglin, Sun Youyuan, Sun Guanglin's grandfather, had always been ignored by his family. Because Sun Youyuan had no ability to work, he had to eat one person's rations every day. This was undoubtedly a huge financial expense for the not-rich family at that time. .

Although his grandfather was often ignored and scolded like him, the elderly Sun Youyuan was a very smart man. Because he only ate and did not cook, Sun Youyuan was often scolded at the dinner table, until one time Sun Youyuan The chair was replaced by a low chair. He could only see the food in front of him, but could not reach the dishes on the table. Also unable to reach the food was his younger brother Sun Guangming. As soon as his younger brother stood up, Sun Guangming's father scolded him, "If anyone dares to stand up to eat, I will break his legs." Sun Youyuan knew that this was referring to Sang and Huai, so from there At that moment he began a long revenge plan.

He kept instilling the idea that the table was too high to his ignorant grandson Sun Guangming, which made the young Sun Guangming start to notice this matter. When Sun Guangming, who thought he was smart, was looking for a solution to the problem, he didn't know that he had walked into his grandfather's trap. In the end, Sun Guangming seemed to have really found a solution to the problem. He shouted loudly: "Saw it off." He said to his grandfather Sun Youyuan: "Take off a section of its leg."

But as soon as he said it, Sun Youyuan denied it: "You can't saw it.

"Obviously Sun Guangming was not very convinced. He tried his best to prove that he could saw. He got a saw from the carpenter and asked his grandfather: "Do you think I can saw it?" His grandfather answered him very dissatisfied: "At most Only one leg can be sawed off. When Sun Guangming cut off half of all four legs, Sun Youyuan said sternly: "If you do evil, your father will beat you to death." ”

Later, grandpa no longer had to bow down when eating. Sun Guangming, who had been severely beaten, began to be afraid of this grandpa who never spoke much from that moment on.

< p> In fact, the sinister nature of human nature mostly comes from a fear in a person’s heart. When something that should happen to oneself does not happen, it will definitely happen to another person, but some things are enough to destroy A child's childhood.

Human beauty always appears in unexpected moments

In fact, what happened to Sun Guanglin was not only endless darkness, but also many beautiful moments. He was lonely since he was a child. Sun Guanglin's only companion is the equally lonely Su Yu, a boy much older than him, but just as shy as him. He exists by Sun Guanglin's side as a big brother, and they like to walk together after school. , *** discussed his inner thoughts and secrets

But Su Yu did something wrong when he entered adolescence: on the way out of school, he couldn't control his behavior and hugged him. After that, he was labeled as a "gangster" and was sent to reeducation through labor for one year.

After that, everyone in the school met Sun Guanglin. They shouted: "When are you going to visit the prison?" Sun Guanglin ignored them at first, but after a long time they still pestered Sun Guanglin relentlessly. At this time, Sun Guanglin really couldn't stand the insult they gave to himself and Su Yu. He went up and punched him, but the thin Sun Guanglin was obviously no match for him, and he was knocked to the ground in one round.

At this time, a tall figure came out, and he was going to knock Sun Guanglin down. The boy gave him a good beating. This person was none other than Su Hang, Su Yu's younger brother. In fact, during this time, it was not only Sun Guanglin who heard "When are you going to visit the prison?", but also Su Yu's younger brother. Su Hang. Su Yu and Su Hang were not like brothers in school before, but like strangers. Sun Guanglin even had a little feud with Su Hang.

Because of Su Hang, they were far apart. Because of Yu, Su Hang and Sun Guanglin had a brief friendship. After walking around the school with a knife that day, he swore to Sun Guanglin: "If anyone dares to say anything bad about Su Yu again, he will immediately Kill that man. "From then on, no one in the school said anything bad about them. As the author said in the book:

When we treat the world fiercely, the world becomes gentle.

Although this experience only gave Sun Guanglin a moment of friendship, this moment of friendship was enough to move Sun Guanglin to tears, because at this special time, Su Hang was the only one who united with him. < /p>

Speaking of the united front, there is actually one person in Sun Guanglin's mind who once gave him warmth, and that was his stepmother Li Xiuying.

That was a frame-up, a complete frame-up. A frame-up made Sun Guanglin suspicious of his life. One day, a classmate accidentally broke the glass while playing ball. The teacher's response was to ask all the students who played ball to write a report, but Sun Guanglin felt that he was not at fault. , so he didn’t want to write, so he persuaded everyone not to write. However, several students who verbally agreed still submitted their papers for review the next day.

When Sun Guanglin returned home, he always felt that he was right, but he didn’t. A reason that could convince him caused him to be absent-minded all day, so he thought of going to his stepmother Li Xiuying to find confidence, and he was not disappointed. He asked Li Xiuying if he could throw the ball on the playground, and someone else broke the glass monster. He didn't blame himself, Li Xiuying's answer made Sun Guanglin very satisfied. He seemed to have the confidence to deal with the teacher.

But when the teacher called him to the office, he regretted it. He looked at the teacher sternly. out of fear, he still said: "I haven't finished writing yet." The late submission of the examination made the teacher feel that he was very dismissive, and even ignored him as a teacher, so the teacher began his long-planned revenge. .

Just like this, a line of slogans directed at a certain teacher appeared inexplicably on the wall. It was obvious that all this was arranged by Sun Guanglin’s teacher. He also bribed Sun Guanglin’s two best friends to attack him. He used coercion and inducement to get Sun Guanglin to admit that he wrote it. When he was still immersed in the trap of the two friends, he was called to the office. What greeted him next was torture and contemplation of his faults.

Because Sun Guanglin refused to admit his death, many teachers in the school were angry, so his stepfather Wang Liqiang was also alarmed. However, Wang Liqiang only listened to the teacher's story and did not listen to his explanation at all. This made Sun Guanglin felt tortured. After returning home, his stepmother Li Xiuying asked him seriously: "Did you write that slogan? Tell the truth." "I didn't write it." At this time, Li Xiuying shouted to Wang Liqiang: "He definitely didn't write it. I can guarantee that when he first came to our house, I secretly put the five cents on the window sill, and he honestly took it and handed it to me." Then she faced Sun Guanglin and said, "I believe you."

This simple belief is so important to Sun Guanglin, just like a drop of nectar when he is thirsty or a ray of sunshine when he is cold, it is enough to keep him warm for a lifetime.

Even in the harshest scenes and environments, there is no lack of beauty in human nature. However, the beauty of human nature likes to be hidden, and we need to discover it with the most pious heart.

We were once glorious, but this situation changed us

After reading this book, what impressed me most is that every ridiculous and heartbreaking story, In the end it all became absurd and lifeless. His younger brother Sun Guangming finally fell into the river and died; his grandfather was angry with the gods and always felt that his death was imminent, but in the end he continued to live a half-life and half-death life for a long time. The brother Sun Guangping, who was originally full of confidence and showed off his power, eventually became a slave to life and returned to his father's old business; the girl who was once admired by all her peers finally turned into an old man who only lost his temper with his own children. of single mother.

Everyone was pretentious when they were young, but in the end they all became the person they least wanted to be. It was not that they did not work hard, but that the small world did not allow them to have any thoughts and actions of their own. , they can only do fixed things according to fixed thinking, generation after generation, generation after generation...