Selected Novels and Stories

1. What is the difference between novels and stories

The difference between stories and novels

Generally speaking, the differences between stories and novels are as follows:

First, in terms of materials, the story must have a core plot and exciting details, which is called the story core. The core of the story is like the baggage of cross talk, everything revolves around this core. Talking about cross talk starts off as a pretense, but when the baggage is shaken off, people will laugh. Writing a story also leads the reader astray first, and when the core of the story reveals the truth, the story is over. There is a story called "Love in the Belly". It tells the story of a contractor who sent a woman to the hospital. He was very kind to her and made her defecate and defecate in the spittoon on the bed. He said that he was afraid that she would catch cold. The patient was very envious. But later I found out that the contractor was in a relationship with this woman. The woman stopped working. The man asked her to return everything, but she returned everything except a gold ring. The man robbed her and the woman ate it. She went down, so the man took her to the hospital. When the ring came out, he left the woman in the hospital and ran away. This is the core of the story. The novel is different. It can have such a core plot or not. It can lead to the plot through the character's personality and reflect the theme through the character's language and activities.

Secondly, in terms of expression, stories use narrative methods, while novels use description methods. The scenes, character portraits, action descriptions and dialogues that are most commonly used in novels are rarely used in stories. For example: It was a breezy autumn night. Gao Qiang came to the cinema early with a magazine in his hand, and saw a big poster: Angry Angel, a popular blockbuster imported from the United States. He looked at his watch. It was 7:02, two minutes after the movie started, and she hadn't come yet. Did you not see that the magazine in my hand had gone in? Or something happened? He kept looking at his watch, as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, not knowing whether to go in or wait. At this moment, a girl in a white dress floated over, with long black hair draped over her shoulders like a waterfall. She also held a magazine in her hand. Her big black eyes scanned Gao Qiang up and down, her cherry mouth slightly licking. As soon as he opened it, he revealed his neat white teeth: Are you Gao Qiang? Gao Qiang didn't expect her to be so beautiful, and was so excited that he couldn't speak incoherently: I, I am, you, are you Bai Jie?

This is how novels are written. If it were a story, it should be written like this: That night, Gao Qiang had his first date with his girlfriend in front of the cinema, both of them holding a magazine as a contact mark. The movie is a popular blockbuster imported from the United States called Angry Angel. It has been showing for two minutes. Bai Jie hasn't come yet. Gao Qiang is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He doesn't know whether to go in or wait a little longer. When he was thinking wildly, a girl in a white dress with long hair came over and held a magazine in her hand. She asked him if his name was Gao Qiang. Gao Qiang didn't expect Bai Jie to be so beautiful, so he became incoherent.

You can carefully compare the differences between these two paragraphs to know what description is and what narrative is. When novels are written, they tend to use literary language; when stories are told, they tend to use spoken language.

Thirdly, from the perspective of the main body of expression, novels are about people, and everything is done to create characters. The description of scenes, psychological activities, language, and actions all serve to shape the character's image and must conform to the character's identity and personality. The plot is also determined and developed by the character's personality. Sometimes the author himself does not know what the ending will be. What, we can only go down according to the character of the protagonist in the book. If you compare writing a novel to walking, you only have a general direction in advance. There are forks in the middle, uphills and downhills, and full of twists and turns. You will reach wherever you go. Therefore, a good novel leaves you with living people, not those things. Nowadays, when young people write novels, they don’t care about the identity and personality of the characters. What they say are the author’s own words. The characters cannot stand up, cannot live, and have no distinctive character traits.

Stories are about things, and everything revolves around the core of the story. The various techniques used in the article are intended to lead readers astray first and then to the core of the story.

The core of the story is like the destination, and the author is like a black-hearted taxi driver. He takes the reader, the passenger, in circles, detours, deceives him, seduce him, and lets him see the scenery along the way. Finally, when he reaches the destination, the passenger suddenly realizes and shouts that he has been deceived. , I have gone around so many circles with you, but the road is actually so close, right in front of you. But the passenger was still very happy because he saw very beautiful scenery along the way and was willing to pay the fare. Therefore, the story leaves readers with things, but people are downplayed. For a good story, what will be remembered decades later is the story itself, not the protagonist in the story. Of course, the story itself can also reflect the character's personality traits, but this is only a by-product.

There are still some differences between novels and stories, but it is enough to grasp these main ones.

Reference: Red Sleeves Add Fragrance

2. Summary of all stories in selected short stories of O. Henry

O. Henry, American humor master. He wrote more than 300 short stories in his life, and this book selects 42 short stories for readers. Among them, "The Gift of the Magi", "The Policeman and the Hymn", "The Last Leaf" and "The Gentle Liar" are all familiar classics. His works use the United States of America as the vast background, outlining colorful and bizarre pictures of all aspects of social life. The stories he writes are imaginative, humorous, and often have absurd plots and unexpected endings.

Table of Contents [Return] The Humor of American Life Online Encyclopedia

The Gift of the Magi

Love's Service

The Police and the Hymn

The Cop and the Hymn

Iggy Scornston's ***

The Romance of a Busy Agent

Twenty Years Later

1 Lost in a Costume Travel

The Quick-Talk Messenger

Mike's Ransom

The Price of Friendship

The Marriage Manual

Pimenta Pizza

The Princess and the Cougar

The Rise and Fall of Monopoly

Hypnotist Jeff Peters

Lecture on Mathematics of Charity

Accurate Marriage Science

Experts

Pig Ethics

Re-create a new life

Treasure Hunt

2 Witch's Bread

Shamrock Jornis, the God of Knowledge

Zambra

A Strange Story

Red Chief's Ransom

May of Love

Technical Error

The Waves of Life

The Path We Choose

Tommy and the Thief

The Stingy Lover

While the Car Waits

The Legend of the Rose

The Night of Terror

The Loud Trumpet

3 The Two Gentlemen of Thanksgiving

The Last Leaf

Glowing Gold

To each his own needs

Confessions of a Humorist

Heart and Hand

Cactus

3. What is the difference between a story and a novel?

One of the differences: a novel can psychologically portray a certain character or describe some specific events. It can be a The cross-section of the story has no ending, causing readers to think deeply; and the story must have an ending, otherwise it is not a story.

The second difference: a story is still a story without the psychological portrayal of characters, but a novel cannot be a novel without the psychological portrayal of characters; the writing technique of a novel is more delicate, while the writing technique of a story is more straightforward and concise. For example: When I see other people eating, I feel hungry too.

This is how the story is written. When I saw him eating, my stomach rumbled unsatisfactorily, and I realized that I was already very hungry. This is how novels are written.

The third difference: novels can describe the environment in large sections, but if the story does this, it will cause the plot to stagnate in terms of reading. The novel focuses on description and characterization, while the story focuses on plot, with concise and clear lines.

The fourth difference: the story does not need to consider what the characters are thinking, as long as the process and ending are told, it is a story. For example, in the above-mentioned paragraph in "Love Tribulation", the novel can describe Qiwen's ideological activities, and there is no need to write about whether she will leave with Feng, but the story must state that she is unwilling to leave with him.

Difference 5: From the perspective of the subject of expression, novels are about people. All descriptions of environment, psychological activities, language, and actions serve to shape the image of the characters and must conform to the characteristics of the characters. Identity, characteristics, and the laws of development of things. The plot of the novel is determined and developed by the characters' thoughts. Sometimes the author himself does not know what the ending is and can only follow the character of the protagonist in the book. The ending of the story has already been decided, but the plot is twisty or complicated.

The novel pays attention to details and the story pays attention to plot. The details are slow or even static. They capture the fleeting "shot" of the character's psychology, often alluding to the hidden side of society or daily life, and enlarging the picture to allow readers to think and experience. This is the so-called "subtext" in the work.

The storyline is dynamic, an inevitable process of the development of events, and constitutes the suspense, big or small, in the story. Strictly speaking, some of our "classic" novels are not real novels.

When we read a story, what leaves a deep impression in our minds is often the content of the story, not the characters in the story. When we tell stories to others, we only remember an interesting or unforgettable "story", a story about a man or woman who brought us happiness or sadness; novels, on the other hand, keep us firmly in mind Remember the character in the story, and bring more things worth thinking about behind the character's fate to people, causing people to think deeply.

4. What are the similarities and differences between stories and novels?

Generally speaking, novels and stories can be specifically distinguished as follows:

Novels talk about details, and stories talk about plot. Details are slow or even static. They capture sound, color, light and shadow, and moments hidden in daily life. Plot is flowing or even water falling off a cliff. It is the result of time, one or another. Big or small suspense. Strictly speaking, many "classic" novels are stories, not real novels. For example, some of O. Henry's short stories.

The second difference between novels and stories is that novels can withstand repeated re-reading by the most demanding readers, while stories can only be read once or several times. If the concept of novels is to be good-looking and the story comes first, then novels will definitely be eliminated by new art forms such as movies and television that are constantly emerging due to technological advancements. After all, movies and television not only satisfy the eyes but also the ears. Stories must be told in novels, and stories are the skin of the novel, not its bones. Weakening the story actually increases the difficulty of writing the novel. From this point of view, it may be said that novels are the work of individuals. Stories are what the public eats.

The third difference between novels and stories is: the amount of information. The novel can become a self-sufficient world, with its own unreplicable post office, streets, carriages, and airplanes. Stories basically do not provide information, they just talk about things and the relationships between people and things.

The fourth difference between novels and stories is: artistry. This is reflected in four aspects: language, structure, characters, and conception.

The language of the novel is more refined, fresher, and more worthy of chewing. "Lean's head is sweating", this is the language of the story; "Sweat is jumping from Lean's bare forehead", this is the language of the novel.

The language of novels is often narrated from multiple perspectives, from top to bottom, left to right, surface to interior, and the author's own psychological feelings often join in to cheer, and the language of the story focuses on explaining the Qing novel. causes and consequences. If you talk too much, it’s just nonsense.

The structure of the novel goes back and forth, like a symphony covering the forest. The story should be simple, generally linear, meandering along the riverbed of time, with little concern for space.

The characters in novels can rise to the level of symbols. While illustrating an abstract idea and attitude, they are often three-dimensional, with good and evil mixed in different proportions. The characters in the story often serve to satisfy the plot. They are flat, stereotyped, either loyal or traitorous, and rarely take the middle road.

The idea of ??a novel is more difficult than that of a story. It has to capture the "escaped oneness" from a large number of stories.

What we remember when reading novels are details or characters or a certain interesting sentence. What we remember when reading a story is the plot, and the plot quickly disappears into a lot of similar plots. Except for the temporary satisfaction of emotions, in the end there is nothing in our mind.

Perhaps we can also say this: Stories are doors. As children, we stumble to the door and begin to understand the world through it. The novel is the thinking we get after we enter the "door" and grow up and have real intelligence. The novel is an advanced form of story - just like communism is an advanced form of socialism?

Narratives refer to articles that record people, narratives, scenes, and objects. They belong to a basic style of prose. Due to its wide application and flexible and diverse writing forms, it is favored by candidates in college entrance examination writing. There are various narrative methods in narratives, including narration, flashback, interjection, flat narration and supplementary narration.

5. Discuss the similarities and differences between novels and stories

The essence of novels is to create characters, while the highlight of stories is plot.

The most essential thing between them is The difference is that the story does not need to have distinctive characters, but the novel must have typical characters.

In other words, the criterion for whether a novel is excellent lies in whether it has created typical characters. , and the criterion for an excellent story is whether the plot is attractive.

In novels, the plot serves to shape the characters and show off the characters’ personalities, while in stories, the characters serve the plot, and the characters themselves often don’t have much Pen and ink.

Or simply put, when a person reads a work, if he is most concerned about the fate of the characters in the book, then the work is a novel; if he is most concerned about the plot What will happen next, and you don’t have much idea about the characters in the article, then this work is the story.

6. What is the difference between a novel and a story?

In layman’s terms, the concept of a story is “one thing, two or three people, several turns.”

1. In terms of materials, the story version must have a core plot and exciting details, which is called the story core. The story core is like the baggage of the cross talk, and everything revolves around this core.

Novel is different. It can have such a core plot or not. It can lead to the plot through the character's personality and reflect the theme through the character's language and activities.

2. In terms of expression, the story uses narrative techniques, while the novel is mainly description. Scenes, character portraits, action descriptions and portraits are the most commonly used in novels, but stories are rarely used. To put it simply, novels are written and tend to be literary; stories are told and tend to be spoken.

3. From the perspective of the theme of expression, the novel is mainly about people. Everything is to shape the character image, the description of scenes, psychological activities, language, and actions are all in service of shaping the character image. It must conform to the character's identity and personality, and the plot is also determined and developed by the character's personality.

Stories are about things, and everything revolves around the core of the story.

The purpose of all the techniques used in the article is to first lead the readers elsewhere and finally to the core of the story. However, the detours must be done skillfully and the suspense should be set appropriately instead of deliberately detouring, otherwise the readers will lose interest in the article. interest. After reading a story, what should leave an impression on the reader is the events, not the characters.

7. What are the similarities and differences between the writing methods of novels and stories?

The shortest and longest stories are at most about the word count of a small novel. They mainly describe the main characters of the narrative, the male and female protagonists. , one or several stories that happened to various supporting characters, passers-by, etc., and the events caused by them. The focus can be to describe the inner world of the characters, reflect certain opinions, etc. The novel is different. First of all, there is the difference in length, and the creation time of the novel is relatively long. Then there is the richness of the content, the continuous change of supporting roles, and the detail of the interweaving of the characters in each incident. On the one hand, it is not as detailed as the story, but the overall effect, general framework, etc. are far beyond the level of writing a story. Generally, when writing a novel, you first collect the types of subject creation, etc., then write the outline of the story, select the character traits of the characters, etc., then write the general outline of the novel, and then describe it in detail step by step (of course based on Everyone’s writing characteristics are also different, and everyone’s creative style is also different, such as getting a good weapon, getting a certain ability, what kind of help, etc.) When writing a story, choose the theme to be created and focus on it: the characters are in Pay attention to the details of what happened with the supporting characters at a certain place at a specific time. You can choose flashbacks and other techniques for detective crime solving. For example: write the ending (someone dies) at the beginning, and then find out through various arduous investigations. The process of the real murder, in which certain key clues can be arranged, the contact person dies or loses memory, etc. The middle part can be interrupted because no clues can be found, and then the key clues are discovered under special coincidences (here you can use (Written in the form of time travel), and then discover the real murderer because he is inextricably linked to himself or people close to him, such as long-lost people or others, and then the story ends. Hope this helps, thank you

8. What is the difference between novels and stories

What is the difference between novels and stories

Generally speaking, stories and novels are two different things. There are the following differences:

First, in terms of materials, the story must have a core plot and exciting details, which is called the story core. The core of the story is like the baggage of cross talk, everything revolves around this core. Talking about cross talk starts off as a pretense, but when the baggage is shaken off, people will laugh. Writing a story also leads the reader astray first, and when the core of the story reveals the truth, the story is over. There is a story called "Love in the Belly". It tells the story of a contractor who sent a woman to the hospital. He was very kind to her and made her defecate and defecate in the spittoon on the bed. He said that he was afraid that she would catch cold. The patient was very envious. But later I found out that the contractor was in a relationship with this woman. The woman stopped working. The man asked her to return everything, but she returned everything except a gold ring. The man robbed her and the woman ate it. She went down, so the man took her to the hospital. When the ring came out, he left the woman in the hospital and ran away. This is the core of the story. The novel is different. It can have such a core plot or not. It can lead to the plot through the character's personality and reflect the theme through the character's language and activities.

Secondly, in terms of expression, stories use narrative methods, while novels use description methods. The scenes, character portraits, action descriptions and dialogues that are most commonly used in novels are rarely used in stories. For example: It was a breezy autumn night. Gao Qiang came to the cinema early with a magazine in his hand, and saw a big poster: Angry Angel, a popular blockbuster imported from the United States. He looked at his watch. It was 7:02, two minutes after the movie started, and she hadn't come yet. Did you not see that the magazine in my hand had gone in? Or something happened? He kept looking at his watch, as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, not knowing whether to go in or wait.

At this moment, a girl in a white dress floated over, with long black hair draped over her shoulders like a waterfall. She also held a magazine in her hand. Her big black eyes scanned Gao Qiang up and down, her cherry mouth slightly licking. As soon as he opened it, he revealed his neat white teeth: Are you Gao Qiang? Gao Qiang didn't expect her to be so beautiful, and was so excited that he couldn't speak incoherently: I, I am, you, are you Bai Jie?

This is how novels are written. If it were a story, it should be written like this: That night, Gao Qiang had his first date with his girlfriend in front of the cinema, both of them holding a magazine as a contact mark. The movie is a popular blockbuster imported from the United States called Angry Angel. It has been showing for two minutes. Bai Jie hasn't come yet. Gao Qiang is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He doesn't know whether to go in or wait a little longer. When he was thinking wildly, a girl wearing a white dress with long hair came over and held a magazine in her hand. She asked him if his name was Gao Qiang. Gao Qiang didn't expect Bai Jie to be so beautiful, so he became incoherent.

You can carefully compare the differences between these two paragraphs to know what description is and what narrative is. When novels are written, they tend to use literary language; when stories are told, they tend to use spoken language.

Thirdly, from the perspective of the main body of expression, novels are about people, and everything is done to create characters. The description of scenes, psychological activities, language, and actions all serve to shape the character's image and must conform to the character's identity and personality. The plot is also determined and developed by the character's personality. Sometimes the author himself does not know what the ending will be. What, we can only go down according to the character of the protagonist in the book. If you compare writing a novel to walking, you only have a general direction in advance. There are forks in the middle, uphills and downhills, and full of twists and turns. You will reach wherever you go. Therefore, a good novel leaves you with living people, not those things. Nowadays, when young people write novels, they don’t care about the identity and personality of the characters. What they say are the author’s own words. The characters cannot stand up, cannot live, and have no distinctive character traits.

Stories are about things, and everything revolves around the core of the story. The various techniques used in the article are intended to lead readers astray first and then to the core of the story. The core of the story is like the destination, and the author is like a black-hearted taxi driver. He takes the reader, the passenger, in circles, detours, deceives him, seduce him, and lets him see the scenery along the way. Finally, when he reaches the destination, the passenger suddenly realizes and shouts that he has been deceived. , I have gone around so many circles with you, but the road is actually so close, right in front of you. But the passenger was still very happy because he saw very beautiful scenery along the way and was willing to pay the fare. Therefore, the story leaves readers with things, but people are downplayed. For a good story, what will be remembered decades later is the story itself, not the protagonist in the story. Of course, the story itself can also reflect the character's personality traits, but this is only a by-product.

There are still some differences between novels and stories, but it is enough to grasp these main ones.

9. What is the difference between a story and a novel?

Strictly speaking:

Story: "So" the past and the past focus on the thing itself

Novel: Fiction should have ups and downs and should have all aspects of describing scenes, characters and dialogue... Even if there is a story as a prototype, it is a re-creation

But now people regard stories as coaxing Children's "fairy tales" began to be made up randomly

10. What is the difference between novels and stories

The main source of both novels and stories is the same, which lies in " "Narrative" is what we usually call storytelling. However, there are indeed differences between novels and stories, so we can only find out the differences between the two from their mutual differences and grasp the differences between novels and stories as much as possible.

First of all, in terms of form, novels and stories are expressed in different ways. Stories focus on narrative methods, that is, language expression, while novels focus on description methods.

But we seem to have seen such words before in novels or stories. Therefore, words like this are just narratives in the form of a running account.

"I haven’t seen such a beautiful girl for a long time. A beautiful girl appeared on this street. I don’t know that from that day on, she will pass by this time every day, and he will also be here every day. The street is waiting for her to appear. "Okay, the story has begun, but this is not enough, because there is not yet the core of the story we are telling - that is, the plot of the story. "One day, it was raining lightly. Pedestrians passed by him in a hurry, and she also passed by him in a hurry. Maybe she was walking too hastily, and he, who was only looking at her, bumped into a passing woman. The woman screamed, and he quickly closed the umbrella in his hand. When he was closing the umbrella, the umbrella accidentally lifted up the woman's skirt again. The woman yelled, "Rogue!" ” and shouted “Rogue!” "He was so ashamed that he didn't even have time to apologize and turned around to leave. "Squeak——" The car in the rain had knocked him to the ground...

He left, but passers-by were still passing by in a hurry as usual. ”

How is it? But it can only be regarded as a story up to this point. If you want to make this story a novel, you need to expand the plot of the story. For example, he hit the woman and he hit the car. The author can expand the details of the collision or the two. If you don't associate it with the collision, you can also describe his inner feelings when he saw the girl and his inner feelings when he bumped into her. Then this should be regarded as a short novel, right? We can also think of other endings after "The woman yelled, 'Rogue!'".

Finally, let’s take a look at the essay "Ghosts Are Not Ghosts" written by Yang Liu Hanyan

Once upon a time, there was an old house outside the city. Because of its age, the ruins of the courtyard were covered with weeds. There is an old sycamore tree in the courtyard. Its dense branches and leaves cover the entire space, and it seems that even a trace of sunlight cannot enter. It really feels like the sycamore tree is deep in the courtyard in autumn. And the house is a paradise for spider webs. People say that this old house often hears cries that sound like ghosts at night, and they believe that this old house is often haunted by evil spirits. Therefore, when people mention the old house, they are often creepy, and no one dares to approach it, let alone stay in it. .

One day, there was a man who claimed to be brave and said, "I want to enter this old house to stay for one night." After saying this, he actually went in. Later, another person who claimed to be brave heard that this place was often haunted and wanted to test his courage and planned to stay there. He opened the door and was about to go in. At this time, the person who entered first thought that the person pushing the door was a ghost, so he blocked the door hard to prevent the ghost from entering. Later, this person also believed that there was a ghost in the house. So the two "ghosts" fought with each other, and there was no winner. They kept fighting until dawn. The man inside was exhausted. His curiosity prompted him to take a closer look and said to himself: This ghost is quite powerful. . So he opened the door quietly. Later, this man also sat down tiredly at the door, thinking, at dawn, I will guard the door and see where you, the evil ghost, escape in broad daylight. At this time the door opened, and when both parties saw each other clearly, they were stunned in surprise.

It turns out that both of them are humans and not ghosts.

In order to lead readers astray, the first paragraph of the story provides necessary descriptions of the story’s scenes, but the author grasped the scale of writing the story and did not use too many pens here. (If the author Excessive expansion here will lead to a lag in the sense of speed of the story.) Instead, it goes straight to the core plot of the story to reveal the truth that ghosts are not ghosts, and the story is over.