Wind in the willows Chapter 5 Introduction

Chapter 5: "Warm Old Residence" is finished in one breath. The mole went into the wild forest alone on a snowy winter afternoon and got lost in the forest. The rat found the exhausted mole, and two uninvited guests happened to break into Mr. Badger's house and were warmly treated.

The wind in the willows, a children's novel, takes animals as the narrative subject, observes and feels nature and human society from the perspective of animals, subverting the traditional narrative that animals are objectified.

In the novel, animals have replaced human beings as the aesthetic subject of nature. Through the perspective of these animals, readers can directly experience the attachment of animals to nature and their sense of belonging in nature, and feel the emotional affinity between people and other animals, thus tracing the homology between people and animals.

This urges people to reduce their sense of superiority towards animals, re-examine the survival significance and life value of animals, reflect on the position of anthropocentrism, rethink the distinction between people and other animals in traditional thinking, rebuild their moral conscience towards other creatures, and expand the object of ethics from people themselves to other animals and even the whole organism.

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Creative background:

As for the specific reasons for the creation of The Wind in the Willows, it is generally believed that it began with Graham's experience of telling stories to his son at the bedside at night, especially the story about toad's adventure. In fact, since May 1904, Graham always tells stories to his 4-year-old son "Mouse" before going to bed at night.

In the original story, besides animals such as toads, moles and mice, there were also giants such as giraffes, but they were later abandoned because they were not suitable for entering the animal world along the Liulin River. 1907 In May, my son alastair went on vacation with the governess as planned.

But he didn't want to leave, because he wanted to continue listening to his father's story, so Graham promised to continue telling his son by writing. He didn't break his promise. He wrote a story for several months on time and sent it to his son, who read it to the female teacher. These stories written in letters naturally become a part of Wind in the Willows.

In addition, in the month of 1903, 1 1, Graham was threatened with a gun or even shot by a radical eccentric person at the Bank of England for three consecutive times. Critics believe that this incident may have been conceived in a story: when toad tried to find out his occupied mansion, the mink on guard shot him to death.