In the worry-free grocery store in Keigo Higashino, the real protagonists are three thieves, not the owner of the grocery store. Unemployed, stealing, and with low education, they are full of sympathy on the way to escape, forgetting that they are thieves. Their mission is to escape, but they are actually solving worries for some promising and "good life" guys.
I wonder why the author arranged for three thieves to be consultants. Why not write it in Xiong Ji? Although this can make the novel reflect suspense, it is also a necessary arrangement for the story to travel through time and space. But the author can also take any ordinary person as the protagonist to complete this crossing, such as an adventurous student or a lost and tired office worker who strays into a grocery store that can travel through time and space. ......
(A) a special hero, produced a special story.
In the novel class: the secret of torturing readers, the English novelist Green is mentioned. Green's tombstone is engraved with a passage, "I love to see the dangerous edge of things." Honest thief, soft-hearted assassin, atheist who doubts heaven. "In this way, a fascinating story often contains a dilemma. Because of the contradiction between the hero's internal character or external situation and the work he wants to complete, an extraordinary story is produced.
So I understand the author's intention. For the development of the plot, for the change of the protagonist's fate choice, for the next fascinating story.
The protagonist's original goal was to abscond, but the contradiction appeared. Because they were hiding in the grocery store, they accidentally received a consultation letter from the helper. At this time, they are faced with the dilemma of rationality and sensibility, their own goals and helping others. After some struggle, they decided to be consultants. However, when they choose to be consultants, their inherent limitations conflict with this new task. Their education level is not high since childhood, which is far from the consulting ability of Hongzhi, the real old owner of the grocery store. What advice can such people give to people whose lives are a hundred times better than theirs? This is what the novel is about. They did it in their own way.
The plot continued to develop like a snowball. The story begins with a simple attempt to help others find a way. After writing several letters, some things have changed subtly. Not for consultants, but for thieves who have escaped, they have experienced the feeling of putting aside gains and losses and truly thinking of others-a feeling that they have never experienced as social losers. Finally, they waited for dawn to continue their escape, but at this time, the plot reversed. They were surprised to learn that they had robbed people they had helped in the past. The accident was enough to shock them, and they felt guilty for their actions. Finally, they decided to turn themselves in.
Such a plot conforms to the basic framework of a good story:
So it can be seen that this good story is closely related to the special identity of the protagonist. A different hero is the beginning of a good story.
(2) How can a lovely thief relieve people's worries?
In the eyes of normal people, people who can help us solve difficulties and troubles should naturally be people who are taller than us in all aspects, just like the real grocery store owner Hongzhi. But these three people are not. They often steal to laugh, and their language ability to speak nice words is really limited, even the words written in reply are crooked. The author arranged for them to do a task much worse than their own. In addition to making the story more exciting, they may even want to present a unique thief image for readers, so that readers can get rid of the theft forced by life. They are no different from countless other ordinary people-kind, soft-hearted, compassionate and considerate-thus expressing (the theme of the novel) that this is the most important quality for a person to solve the worries of others.
Let's see how people with low self-esteem solve their troubles.
1 Limited educational level and poor consulting skills.
When they learned that the musicians in the fish shop were entangled in inheriting their family business and musical dreams, they rudely reprimanded this person's waywardness from their own perspective. In their eyes, it is a luxury to have a family business to inherit and a job to do. They couldn't understand what was going on in the young man's mind.
This makes musicians very angry and fully exposes their poor consulting skills, especially compared with real shopkeepers. Although their advice is really for the musicians, here, this gentleness is a bit rude. Because of their personal experience, it is difficult for them to sympathize with such a "good life" person who has no worries about food and clothing.
In all the consultations they give people, there are many times when they berate the consultants. They hope to give correct advice to people in the past from the known results as much as possible. It's just that the consultant got into his own predicament. Even if it is the right suggestion, it will take a hard struggle to make the two choices play incisively and vividly, and finally the real choice will appear in his heart. The thief consultant unconsciously played the role of this catalyst, allowing the consultant to finally clarify his inner direction in the confrontation between rationality and sensibility.
2 There is also delicacy and intimacy in coarseness.
In addition to direct criticism, the thieves' consultants also showed warmth. In the previous letters with Moon Rabbit, these three people realized that they might be communicating with people in the past. So I want to know the age of the consultant, but I am worried about scaring the consultant. I thought about it, asked a few very wise questions, and cleverly determined the age of the consultant. Because the letter was written by another person, they specially indicated at the end of the letter that there really should be applause here. No matter what their answer is, it can be concluded that they are very concerned about the troubles of consultants.
3 anxious people are anxious and empathetic.
In the face of everyone's problems, there is a strong dispute within the advisory group, because everyone regards the consultant's problems as their own. In front of Harumi, the most controversial issue is whether to earn more money as a hostess or to work for a poorly paid class. Shota wants to support Harumi, thinking that Harumi is also under consideration. This fastest way to make money can make her fast and economically independent. Dun also replaced his feelings for his mother who abandoned him (the mother is the hostess), thinking that being the hostess would only cause trouble and strongly opposed her idea. In this stalemate, the three talents found a more balanced and cautious position and a more mature solution.
(3) Characterization: As a thief, kindness is also courtesy.
One of the four elements of the novel is the character. Let me know the characters created by the author.
The three men fled to this grocery store just after stealing. In this tense situation, I have to admit that Ya Dun's reaction is the most normal and mature. He was cautious and suspicious, refused to participate in unimportant things, just didn't want to get into any trouble, waiting for dawn to blend in with the crowd and escape. Just to Taihe Xingping, I can't bear to ignore the letter from Moon Rabbit. Denton also urged them to go to bed quickly and spread paper on the floor. In this small detail, Xiang Tai and Xing Ping, one said "thank you" and the other said "thank you". Seeing this, I have to say that even if they are thieves, it is natural to be polite even under great pressure.
Facing whether Harumi is a hostess or working in a company, Dun also said emotionally, "If I am a hostess, I will be cheated by an irresponsible man, and finally I will give birth to a child without a father, which will cause trouble to people around me!" At this moment, Shota bowed his head and stopped talking. Because they all know that Dunn is such a child. If you know the pain of others, you won't argue. Silence is their way of caring for the fragile hearts of their companions.
Although Dun has always been indifferent to the troubles of the people in the letter, he has his own special growth experience. In fact, he is still a caring person. When he left the grocery store angrily for the first time, he saw a 24-hour convenience store on the roadside and immediately remembered that Xing Ping said he was hungry. Cautious, he still sneaked in to buy food and went back to the grocery store to deliver it to the two. Although he has always stressed that "people like us" just mind their own business and are not qualified to give advice to others. But he gradually integrated into this think tank. The contradiction and dispute between him and the other two people only better externalizes the contradiction between the identity and goal of a thief and the desire to relieve others' worries.
At the end of the novel, in the face of the dispute between Ya Dun and Shota on the issue of beauty, Ya Dun's life story is skillfully brought out, and a hole can give you a panoramic view. Only Ya Dun is enough for readers to immediately understand their experiences, how they were forced by life to steal, and how their inner world was simpler than ordinary people. At this point, the characters have successfully penetrated into the reader's heart, causing the reader's love and hate.