Reading Notes: Mo Bosang's Short Story "The Ranger"

Mr Boniface is a man who loves hunting. He has a woodland near Jumeiger, which is lush, remote and full of rabbits. Every year, he goes hunting there.

He hired a retired gendarme as a ranger. Rangers are honest, grumpy, full of hatred, and "ruthless and fearless to poachers."

The ranger's name is Dad cavalli, and he has a nephew, Marius, who is a little rascal. He has no parents, only one relative, so he was taken in by the ranger and lived with him in a cabin far from the village.

The cabin has two floors. There are two downstairs, one is the kitchen and the other is for storing things. There are two bedrooms upstairs, one for the hunter and one for the knight errant. In addition, there is a small clearing on the top of the stairs between the two bedrooms, which is where the little rascal lives. Whenever Mr. Boniface comes to hunt, an old woman cooks for him, and the little rascal gives this place to the old woman.

The story happened in this woodland and these people.

1854 65438+1October 15, this day is a gloomy and sad day. Mr. Boniface, the hunter, went hunting in the forest again. He came to this beautiful forest with a hound with a keen sense of smell.

In the evening, he arrived at the location of the two-story cabin. Worried and sad rangers and loyal old women greeted them. After some friendly greetings, the ranger led his master's horse to the stable next to the hut.

When the people in the hut appeared in the kitchen one after another, the master found that he had not seen the ranger's nephew Marius.

So he asked, "What about Marius? Where is he? Why don't you come? "

The ranger, who was not ready to speak, was moved by the three question marks that his master cared about, and finally told his nephew's embarrassing story to his master:

It turned out that his nephew didn't take the right path and played tricks with him, becoming a thief he hated. When he was washing clothes for his nephew, he found money in his pocket and figured it out. He was very sad and disappointed when he got the evidence that his nephew was a thief. He beat up his nephew and put him in the stable.

The ranger came to Ma Sili and dragged his nephew to the hut. He wants to educate his nephew with his master.

However, the nephew refused to admit his mistake and angered the ranger again. He beat his nephew again.

His uncle picked him up and slapped him, which made him stumble again. So, "he's gone, and I haven't seen him all night." The ranger said, "This is a bad variety." Father cavalli, a ranger familiar with his nephew, began to feel uneasy and kept saying bad things all night.

In the middle of the night, the hut caught fire and smoke billowed upstairs. Mr Boniface was suddenly awakened by the barking of hounds and found that the fire was coming from downstairs.

He and the hound fled downstairs through the window with sheets. But the ranger still didn't go downstairs. In an emergency, he stuffed two bullets into a shotgun and fired a shot at the window of the ranger's bedroom upstairs.

Gunfire and broken glass woke up the ranger, Father cavalli. When he jumped down from the window, the hut was completely a fireball. Unfortunately, the old woman bent over and could not move was buried in the fire.

Worried about the horses, the ranger hurried to the barn to lead the horses. Unexpectedly, suddenly someone pushed him down and ran away desperately. It turned out to be Marius, the nephew hiding behind the horse.

The old gendarmerie flew into a rage. Jealously, he picked up the shotgun with the last bullet left by his master and shot his nephew.

The nephew died, and the acquitted ranger left and was never seen again.

A stubborn bad boy, because of stealing and disobedience, had a deep hatred for the ranger. He was in the cabin downstairs, full of hay, and regardless, a fire lit the cabin. Wit escaped, but the innocent old woman was swallowed up by the fire, which shows how vicious the boy is.

In the article, the author's account of the bad boy shows the author's attitude. A series of derogatory terms such as "baldness" and "strabismus", as well as huge hands and feet on bad teenagers.

In addition, he also described teenagers as "smelly foxes and badgers". To say that the cunning of teenagers is "this hooligan is simply a weasel or a fox." Use vivid metaphors to further worsen the image of juvenile delinquents.

First of all, my uncle is a retired soldier, honest, hot-tempered, meticulous in executing orders, and especially hates the behavior of those thieves, so he is cruel to them and has nothing to hide.

Then, he further explained this positive image with his own actions. When he caught the thief my nephew, he "suddenly became furious and beat him up, which almost killed him", and said that he would beat him face to face when his master came, which made him "unforgettable for a long time".

But for this disappointing relative, the ranger was merciful and didn't kill him.

For the ranger, he is educating his nephew for his own good! In the nephew's view, uncle is no longer the benefactor who adopted him, but has become the enemy.

After another beating, my uncle, who was a soldier, still showed no sign of repentance. He didn't say a word, but he didn't apologize to his host. When the angry uncle tried to hit him again, he shouted like a fox and escaped the fate of being beaten by shouting "spare my life" with a fake shout.

The human weakness of an ordinary ranger, a humble orphan and a nobody was clearly highlighted through an arson incident.

My nephew's death was of his own making. But for the ranger, the nephew is his only relative, but he shot and killed him himself, which is destined to form a powerful psychological torture for Cavari's father, which is unbearable for ordinary people. Therefore, he is used to running away and making himself disappear forever.

The short story "Ranger" is a literary work that shocks readers' hearts, and it is also the representative work of Mo Bosang's short stories.