Appreciate the blind child and his shadow

First, the overall grasp

We can interpret and grasp the text as a whole from the following aspects.

(A) the text conception

We should grasp the key sentences that show the emotional changes of blind children.

"His life is very lonely." -"Blind children seem to feel the light and see the color. He is very happy. " -"Ah, I see, firefly ... he has never been so happy." -"The blind boy looked at his own shadow and cried in surprise:' Ah! My shadow, is that you? I think I see you! "Really, I see you!" "-"he saw everything around him! "

(B) the development of the plot

The blind child is lonely-the company of "shadow" makes him happy and brings him warmth-the love from fireflies, shadows and the sun and moon in trouble makes him bright.

(c) thematic overview

From the care and help of "shadow" and "firefly" to blind children, it is concluded that everyone should care for the weak, and only "love" can make them feel the light and beauty of life.

Shadow finally came to life, from which it summed up the theme of giving others happiness and getting happiness by yourself.

Second, the problem research

This is a beautiful fairy tale, which creates a pure and friendly atmosphere and a poetic realm.

(A) the artistic conception of beauty. Blind children love life, yearn for the light, feel relaxed and happy, and have colorful scenes, such as "cows bleating in Cleisthenes, sheep bleating", "picking flowers and fruits", "listening to running water", fireflies "blue" green "light," sun ""moon "and" curved rainbow ". All this weaves into a gorgeous realm, attracting and infecting readers, and letting readers get the edification of beauty.

(2) Beautiful language. Sort by sentence, short, lively, jumping, like a stream, natural and smooth, crisp voice, suitable for expressing fairy tale content and children's reading psychology. Reduplicated words, such as quiet, gentle, gurgling, intermittent, vague, vague and stumbling, are widely used. These words not only vividly describe modality, but also soften the tone and are catchy.

Practice note

The theme of this text can be understood from different angles. Can you agree with the following two statements? Do you have any other opinions? Briefly explain why.

1. We should care for lonely and weak people like blind children and let them feel the light and beauty of life.

2. While the blind child gains the light, the "shadow" also gains life and becomes a beautiful child, which shows that if you bring happiness to others, you can also get happiness.

Intention: Help students understand the theme of fairy tales more accurately and deeply. The reasons for choosing peace talks can inspire students, reduce the difficulty and encourage them to think and understand from multiple angles.

Solution: a material, an article, can understand its theme from different angles and get different answers. Therefore, the two understandings listed in the exercise are correct. Of course, we can also understand and summarize from the aspects of loving life, persistent pursuit, everyone extending a warm hand, and everyone giving a little love. As long as it is justified, it should be affirmed. Of course, there are different answers. The first kind of understanding is closer to the overall content of fairy tales.

Dichotomy role recites the text. It is best to match it with appropriate background music.

Intention: Reading aloud by different roles can stimulate interest, and more importantly, you can really feel the "love" atmosphere and poetic artistic conception of fairy tales. In reading aloud, stimulate associative imagination and reproduce the picture image shown in the article in each student's mind.

Role distribution: one person reads narrative language, one person reads the words of "blind children", one person reads the words of "shadow" and reads a lot of words of "fireflies" together. The background music can be warm and cheerful, consistent with the emotional rhythm of the article.

Teaching suggestion

First, reading aloud and deeply feeling the text is the basis for further understanding and generalization. Therefore, the quality and quantity of reading aloud are very important. Read the tone, rhythm and emotion several times to make the story familiar and live in your heart.

Second, we should discuss the understanding of the main idea. Teachers should encourage students to think in many ways, dare to express different opinions, and cultivate students' habit of thinking extensively and being good at thinking.

Third, word reading and writing is not limited to after-school exercises. You can extract a large number of reduplicated words from the text, copy them down in sentences, and then read them repeatedly as the accumulation of language materials.

related data

I. Introduction to the author

Yuan Ke, 19 16, was born in Xinfan, Sichuan. He is the author of Ancient Myths of China, Selected Explanations of Ancient Myths, Collation of Classics of Mountains and Seas, Essays on Myths, China Dictionary of Myths and Legends, etc. China Ancient Myth is the first monograph in China to study the ancient myths of the Han nationality. The author makes textual research, correction, comparison and synthesis on the vast amount of ancient documents, casts the materials of ancient myths of Han nationality in China into a systematic whole, and provides a literary work with the characteristics and styles of ancient myths of Han nationality.

Second, about myth.

Myth is a story of ancient people's understanding and imagination of natural and cultural phenomena. It is an early unconscious artistic creation of human beings. Myth is not a scientific reflection of real life, but the result that people can't scientifically explain the origin and change of the world, natural phenomena and primitive social and cultural life because of the low level of productivity in ancient times. On the basis of their poor life experience, they personify the natural forces and the objective world with the help of imagination and fantasy.

The emergence of myths is closely related to ancient people's struggle for survival and natural forces, to ancient life and history, and often shows ancient people's resistance to natural forces and their desire to improve their own abilities. Marx said: "Any myth uses imagination to conquer, dominate and visualize natural forces." Myth is "the natural and social form itself processed by people's fantasy in an unconscious artistic way".

Ancient people lived together, and created primitive tools, woodcut symbols, pictures and characters, original music and dances in collective labor and common life. At the same time, they also created primitive myths, which originated from primitive clan society and were constantly created and developed with the long historical process.

Myth is full of magical fantasy, which casts a strange color on the understanding of the ancients and the growth and change of everything in the world. Most of the characters in mythology have superhuman strength, which is imagined according to the image, production situation, understanding of natural forces and the requirements of improving their own abilities of primitive people.

Primitive myth is the product of the unique historical conditions of human childhood and a form of primitive people's understanding of nature and society. It reflects the early thinking activities of human beings. The ancients in the age of ignorance could not surpass the low productivity and struggle against nature in their understanding of the objective world. Therefore, in the observation of natural and social phenomena, most of them are intuition, speculation and conjecture. Under the condition of high development of social productive forces and human intelligence, primitive myths are generally no longer produced. However, due to the development of society and the imbalance of people's cultural knowledge, myths and fantasies are still inevitable or unavoidable in some regions and nations that cannot effectively control nature in practice and scientifically explain the origin of the world and the changes of natural phenomena in understanding. But these works are different from the original myth.

There are various naive thoughts and pursuits of the ancients in the myth, which reflect the original world outlook in many ways. It often includes primitive science, primitive philosophy and primitive religion. Believing in supernatural masters, believing in animism, believing in the existence of souls and gods and other primitive concepts and consciousness, as well as totem worship, witchcraft belief, nature worship, ancestor worship and other factors that constitute the ancient world outlook. In mythology, all natural phenomena and even some social people are considered to be alive and endowed with human characteristics and supernatural abilities. The mythical forms of exaggerated imagination, such as rare birds and animals, strange gods, clan gods, tribal gods, Raytheon and rain gods, are inseparable from these concepts. The understanding and imagination of the relationship between man and animals, man and nature, and nature and nature in mythology exists as various manifestations of people's ideology in the mythical era.

Third, the records of Nu Wa in ancient books.

Chu Ci Tian Wen: "Nu Wa has a body, who made it?" Wang Yi's note: "Nu Wa's head is a snake."

"Shuo Wen Jie Zi": "Well, the ancient saint, the person who transformed everything."

"Shan Hai Jing Xi Ye Jing" Guo Pu's note: "Nuwa, an ancient goddess, an emperor, a snake-faced snake body, changes seventy times a day."

"Huai Nan Zi Shuo Lin Pian": "The Yellow Emperor gave birth to Yin and Yang, the upper jaw gave birth to ears, and the mulberry forest gave birth to arms and hands, making it seventy."

"Peaceful Magnolia" Volume 78 quoted "Customs Pass": "It is said that heaven and earth are open and there are no people. Nu Wa is a person in the loess. If the audience can't supply it, they lead the rope in the mud and lift it like a human. "

"Yi Shi" Volume III quotes "Customs Pass": "Nu Wa became a female media when she sought a shrine, because of marriage."

Huainan Zilan Ming Chapter: "In the past, the four poles were abandoned, Kyushu was split, the sky did not overlap, the land was underdeveloped, the fire did not go out, the water was endless, animals ate people, and birds took the old and the weak." So Nu Wa refined five-colored stones to make up the sky, and the turtle's feet stood on four poles, killing the black dragon to help Jizhou, and accumulating reed ash to stop the lewd water. "

Fourth, about the myth of creation.

Creation myth, also known as creation myth, is a myth about the creation of heaven and earth, the origin of human beings and all things. The myth of creation is the naive explanation and description of nature and the universe in the form of fantasy in human childhood, which reflects the primitive ideas of primitive people on heaven, earth, the universe and the origin of human beings.

There are two main aspects in the creation myth: ① explaining and describing the opening of heaven and earth, including the formation of the world and everything; (2) Explain the origin of human beings, including the origin of nations.

The myth about the creation of heaven and earth was almost universal in the early days of all ethnic groups. Primitive people can't understand the origin of the natural universe because of their low productivity and weak intelligence, so they can only imagine and speculate based on their poor life experience, thus producing this creation myth.

The creation myth of heaven and earth can be roughly divided into three categories: God created heaven and earth, giants transformed everything, and naturally evolved to form the world. There are some great metaplasia myths here. In addition to the Pangu myth of the Han nationality, there is also Shepa Ma and Shemi Ma written by Achang nationality, which tells the story of these two goddesses, whose breasts turn into the Sun Mountain and Taiyin Mountain, their throats take off as a shuttle, their hair is pulled out to weave soil, their faces turn into the sea, and the goddess holds up the earth with her flesh. Some of this metaplasia myth also describes that everything in the world was born by a man of God. For example, the Yi people's Nizhi Xiajin, the giant who created everything, said that everything in the world, such as leaves, Artemisia branches, wild grapes, morning glory, weeds, ferns, apes, people, camels, bears, dogs, frogs and birds, was born by Nizhi Xiajin.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Emotion, Artistic Conception and Language —— On the writing of The Blind Child and His Shadow (Jin Bo)

I have been publishing works since my college days, mostly poems. Writing poetry is good for me to write fairy tales. Poetry is characterized by lyricism. If you can touch yourself, you can write well and touch others. Poetry often expresses their feelings directly. Writing fairy tales takes twists and turns. The author hides behind the work, and the author's feelings permeate between the lines.

I often think that the blind are the most painful. Without a vision, it is like losing the whole world. When I am writing The Blind Child and His Shadow, I often close my eyes and experience the eternal night of the blind, which makes me feel the pain of the blind. I sympathize with them, love them, want to comfort them, want to inspire more people to care about them, and enhance their life value in the process of caring for others. This kind of thoughts and feelings have been stirring in my heart for a long time, which has become my emotional sustenance and motivation to create this fairy tale.

I remember an unforgettable scene in my life: a blind child sitting in the garden in the street, listening to a group of peers playing around him noisily. Although he was amused by their jokes, more often, he just listened silently, and he couldn't participate in their games. What I saw was his lonely expression.

He sat there motionless, dragging long shadows around him. Only shadows accompany him.

This scene reminds me of one of my poems: "Reading My Shadow": "I couldn't read when I was a child,/I always liked to sit there and read my shadow,/just like reading a fairy tale. //Always thinking about a black bear,/or some very black rabbits,/sitting at my feet,/I have endless words. //until the sun goes down,/the shadow disappears,/leaving me alone. /I know, tomorrow/shadow will come again,/there will be a new story ... "

I relive my childhood experiences and fantasies and integrate the past with reality.

In this way, I think the idea of a fairy tale is gradually clear.

When I conceived the plot, I put myself in the other's shoes, with the desire of blind children to care, with the sympathy and care of a healthy person. Therefore, in the way of telling stories, I pay more attention to writing inner feelings and setting off the atmosphere, rather than pursuing the ups and downs of the plot. I pay attention to the rendering of artistic conception. Because the hero is blind, he can only feel the environment by hearing: he "likes to listen to the birds at dawn, the sound of spring breeze blowing through his ears, and even the sound of bees flapping their wings." This writing can be seen in many places in the work.

The second is to write "light" and "shadow": when a blind child asks the shadow, "Where are you from?" The shadow replied, "I come from sunshine, moonlight and light ..." As the shadow said, "It's just my mother. She asked me to come to your side to accompany you." Wait a minute.

When the blind boy gradually recovered his sight, he wrote about vision and color: "I saw a faint light moving in his hand for the first time", "Countless fireflies combined into a beautiful light, flashing blue light for a while and green light for a while." There is also the ending part, about the sun, moon, rainbow, flowers, green grass, dew ... colorful, all use light, shadow and color to express an artistic conception, and express the development of the plot through the change of artistic conception.