The characters, events, and psychology depicted in the book "Life" are full of a series of contradictions and conflicts, the contradictions between fairy tale love and the tragic and cruel real society, the conflict between ignorance, ignorance and civilization, etc., but it can also make readers fall into deep life thinking.
The full text mainly takes the urban and rural life of the northern Shaanxi Plateau during the reform period as the background, and describes the life change process of Gao Jialin, an intellectual young man who graduated from high school, who returned to his hometown (rural area) and left his hometown (to the city) and then returned to his hometown. The emotional entanglement between the protagonist Gao Jialin and the uneducated rural girl Liu Qiaozhen and the city girl Huang Yaping constitutes a contradiction in the development of the story, and the difficult choice between love and career, ideal and reality that he faces just reflects a painful and unspeakable tragedy, and at the same time has a huge empathetic power, expressing the dilemma, expectations and pursuits of everyone, especially young people.
Gogarin is described as so unconscionable and despised, but if you think about it seriously in the light of the era in which he lived, you can't criticize it outright. In the face of tragic reality, harsh natural environment and feudal stereotypes and bad Xi, his heart is full of ideals, his personality is greatly suppressed, his ideals are greatly hindered, and his spirit is extremely depressed.
Qiaozhen is so simple and kind, but she lacks the knowledge and ambition that Gao Jialin has, perhaps because she has not received education and has not been dyed by the dye vat of society, Lu Yao's pen highlights her simple beauty and fairytale love. Gogarin's educated and ambitious desire to escape from the land, but he does not possess the wild beauty of nature that Qiaozhen possesses, is the contradiction between the rational and the unreasonable.
"The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. ”We should have dreams and face real life properly, and we can't completely deviate from the track, so that we are not easy to be beaten back to the original shape. As Lu Yao said:
Yes, reality cannot be transferred by the will of the individual. Whoever wants to leave his reality is tantamount to leaving the earth. A person should have ideals and even fantasies, but he must not leave real life behind and blindly pursue things that he cannot actually get. This should be one of the most important realizations, especially for young people who are just starting out in life. ”
No matter how hard life is, there will always be its beauty and moving, don't complain, don't be discouraged, don't be blind, introspective, and do and cherish!
No one's path in life is straight and without forks. Some forks in the road, such as a fork in politics, a fork in the road in your career, a fork in your personal life, you take a wrong step, which can affect a period of your life, or it can affect a lifetime. - Liu Qing.Lu Yao once said: "A truly powerful feature** does not rely on the plot to win." A thrilling plot may not be written as a thrilling **. A writer's greatest talent should be to be able to interpret the huge content that makes people's hearts tremble in the daily fragments of life. And this intellect should be based not only on a deep understanding of life, but also on a deep insight and understanding of those lives. ”
Lu Yao is committed to expressing the bitterness and struggle of rural youth in his works, from 1979 to 1981, more than 140,000 words were written for three years, because he was not satisfied with his several deletions, the role of Gao Jialin, injected too much personal emotion into Lu Yao. He once said: "If you think about it, the best days of my life so far were more than 20 days when I wrote the first draft of Life. At that time, Lu Yao, facing his writing life, was also full of spirit.
"Life".What is presented to the reader is such a unique picture of the contemporary rural world, which does not need a thrilling plot to shock people, and does not have a commanding character to save the world, but gives us the most profound thinking and the most primitive touching with the most simple beauty in life.
In 2018, this book was selected as the "Most Influential ** in the 40th Anniversary of China's Reform and Opening-up", and we may have finished reading it"Life".is also as inspired and excited as Jack Ma was when he first finished reading it, but in the end he couldn't become a person who controlled his destiny like him. But we can be like"Life".In Gogarin, he turned suffering into motivation and had the courage to take a step forward in every difficult moment of his life. Unable to change your life, you learn to reconcile with it. 
Reading is the best cultural investment for yourself, and when you meet a good book, you meet a better version of yourself. "Life" is recommended for you who love to read.
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