A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 195: Use the pen as a blade and ink as a tip! How can we talk about darkness when reality is like this? The significance of realistic literature!

There may not be absolute kindness in this world.

The so-called human nature is good, but it is nothing more than a theoretical doctrine put forward by Confucianism for the ruling class to maintain stability.

Human nature is evil. This is Xunzi's ultimate interpretation of human nature.

A death row inmate who tortured someone to death would always beg the judge with a remorseful look on his face when he was about to be executed:
"I feel sorry for that girl, I feel sorry for the people, and I feel sorry for society."

"Your Honor, please give me another chance."

Do you think he really realized his mistake?

No.

He didn't know that he was wrong, but he knew that he was going to die.

Out of fear of death, he expressed his confession in front of the camera in panic.

If there is a place in this world where the sun never shines.

Lost moral constraints.

There is no legal discipline.

When the perpetrators tear off their hypocritical masks and show their true colors, they treat everything around them with absolute viciousness.
When vulnerable groups know that they are in hell, they have suffered almost inhuman torture both mentally and physically, but they have no way to escape.
When all those things that restrain the evil of human nature are eliminated, what kind of ugliness can human nature reveal?

The film "The Crucible" depicts such a world full of sin to readers in an absolutely rational tone:
"The teacher who talks about morality and justice is actually a bastard who is almost pathological in private."

"The dean of studies may seem gentle and refined on the surface, but in private, he is a paranoid violent maniac. He enjoys beating and scolding students. When he encounters students who disobey his discipline, he will torture them in a way that is almost inhumane."

"The principal, who is called a charity ambassador by the locals, always appears kind and amiable in front of the media, but once he returns to the school for the deaf and dumb, his tyrannical and paranoid nature is immediately exposed. All students under his jurisdiction, regardless of gender, will be subjected to inhuman attacks."

shocking!

An unprecedented feeling of suffocation suddenly came over me!
I witnessed with my own eyes that these deaf-mute children, who are already in a disadvantaged group, were being treated in such an inhumane way in a welfare school that was supposedly set up to help them.

At this moment, Yuhang's father only felt chest tightness and discomfort, and he couldn't breathe at all.

I flipped through the pages of the book one by one, and the more I flipped through, the more frightened I felt.

After a while.

Don’t even have the courage to continue turning the page?

Father Yuhang closed his copy of The Crucible with trembling hands. He looked at the child who was sitting on the ground and crying silently with an incredulous look:

"You, you've been looking at this stuff all afternoon?"

It is hard to believe that as a child, he could not believe the plot that an adult would find extremely depressing.
Can you read this book silently?
The main point is to look at one and keep silent?

In fact, Yuhang, as the person involved, was also in great pain. He had clearly told his father:

“I really can’t finish reading this book!”

And not once, but several times!
But this old man not only didn't care about his feelings at all, every time he raised doubts, he would be madly accused by his father:
"Don't pretend, you just want to be lazy"

"Hurry up and go in and study!"

Am I really your biological child?

Even though Yuhang had a lot of doubts in his mind, he had almost finished reading "The Crucible" and didn't have time to think too much.

When I saw the protagonist Jiang Renhao, who wanted to save the children from hell, died tragically on the way to speak for the children.
At this moment, he just felt exhausted.

"I, I'm tired." As if he had been drained of time and didn't have time to think about too many things, Yuhang turned around silently and returned to the room.

He feels so tired.

My whole body feels really tired.

“Is justice delayed still justice?”

"Isn't it said that justice will eventually triumph over evil? Why is justice still absent at the end of the book?"

"They just want to fight!"

"They just want to survive!"

"Why did they try so hard to live, but still end up with such a tragic ending?"

Obviously, the values ​​​​shown in the book "The Crucible" are not completely different from the education I received in school.

It can be said that there is no connection at all!
If all justice in this world is as described in "The Crucible", there will never be dawn before darkness dawns.

When this world is in the darkest place, what is impossible to happen?
I don’t know how much time had passed, but it was as if my values ​​had suffered a great shock, and my mind was in a state of chaos.

In a daze, Yuhang lay in the quilt and fell into a deep sleep.

Yuhang had a dream.

A very long dream.

As if in a dream, he seemed to have become a student in the school for the deaf and dumb in the book "The Crucible".

It was a dawning morning.

He didn't even have time to open his eyes before the instructor pulled him up to work. If he wasn't careful, he would be beaten and kicked.
He silently endured it all, enduring fists as big as sandbags, which kept coming at him like raindrops.
Just when I was covered in wounds and feeling pain all over my body.

Late in the evening after lunch.

He also had to endure the double disgust of physical and psychological pain to take care of the sick and outrageous illegitimate child.
The next morning, he returned to school again, dragging his exhausted body.

After school, he felt a little unwell.

When he came to the restroom, he immediately found a middle-aged man with a big belly, committing violence in the toilet.
Yuhang wanted to ask for help. He wanted to help his classmates escape the clutches of this demon. He tried to attract the attention of others by shouting. At that moment, he despairingly discovered that he was a mute. No matter how he struggled -

There was no sound at all.
He could only watch all this happen, but he was powerless to do anything about it.
"what!!!!!"

late at night.

A scream almost like a pig being slaughtered was heard in the room.

As if he had received a great shock, Yuhang woke up from his nightmare and quickly curled up beside the bed:

"Don't come over here, don't come over here, all of you, don't come over here."

The scream immediately attracted the attention of the parents.

Yuhang's mother came out of the bedroom in her pajamas and looked at Yuhang with a worried look on her face:

"What's wrong with this kid?"

Yuhang's father swallowed his saliva guiltily and responded in a low voice:
"Maybe it was a nightmare."

For several days in a row, Yuhang had the same nightmare. Every time he dreamed of those horrific experiences, he was too distressed to fall asleep.

Perhaps it’s because our values ​​have suffered a huge blow.

Yuhang, who was originally cheerful, began to become taciturn. Under the extremely tense situation, he began to treat everything with a bit of panic.
I didn't sleep well for several days and always woke up in the middle of the night.

This resulted in Yuhang's mental state being extremely bad.

His eyes were bloodshot, and one could see the fatigue emanating from him with the naked eye.

Yuhang's mother felt sorry for her son and gave him a fruit basket:
"Son, don't think about those things. Eat something first to relax."

Unexpectedly, when he saw the fruit in his mother's hand, Yuhang lost control of himself.

I vomited it out on the spot:
"Uh-huh, uh-huh"

Banana is a very good fruit. It can supplement the dietary fiber needed by the human body, supplement vitamin C, and enhance human immunity.

but
For some reason, whenever Yuhang saw the fruit in his mother's hand, he would think of the outrageous and extremely unacceptable plots in "The Crucible", which made him feel nauseous and he couldn't eat anything.

It is based on this situation.

"Uh-huh, uh-huh"

In an instant, Yuhang vomited even more violently.

It’s okay if you don’t sleep, but how can you not eat?
What will happen if this continues?

The astronaut parents, who were worried about their son's health, immediately called a psychologist for the child:
"Doctor, please help me see what's wrong with our child. What's wrong with him?"

Diagnosis is done through questionnaires and a series of professional diagnostic assessments.

Finally, the psychologist concluded:

"Depression, mid to late stage."

depression????

Upon hearing the news, Yuhang's mother panicked:
"How can such a healthy child suddenly suffer from depression???"

The moment I heard the word "depression" from the psychologist's mouth, I felt really sad.

At this moment, Yuhang's father lost his mind.

At this moment, he just wanted to roar to the sky and curse:
"furnace--"

"I (W) went to (C) eight (N) early (M)!"

It is hard to believe that a child who was originally an extrovert could become depressed just by reading a crappy book? This depression is not the fake depression of an artistic youth pretending to be artistic, but the real severe depression that makes him lose his appetite, unable to eat or sleep, and even affects his normal life!
It is also based on a series of tragic experiences of his own children.

Yuhang's father immediately posted on WeChat Moments, wanting to give some reminders to other parents:
"Don't let your children watch "The Crucible", remember"

But who would have thought that when he made a series of remarks criticizing "The Crucible".

Suddenly, I saw the boastful message Zi Han’s mother posted on WeChat Moments:

"Ten copies of The Crucible have arrived!"

"I will not only let my own children watch it, I will also promote it to other relatives and let their children watch it together with our Zi Han."

"Want to eat alone? That's impossible."

so.
My kind reminder turned into something you guys are just taking for granted?
Seeing Zi Han's mother being so smart, Yu Hang's father was immediately furious:

"This woman is a real tiger."

Let alone children, even an adult with higher education would find it difficult to read the entire story of The Crucible.
Maybe it’s not easy?

Watch for a while, take a break.

Watch for half a day, then take a day off.

This should be the normal rhythm of reading "The Crucible"?

On the recommendation of his student Song Shiqing.

Zhang Hongguang, Dean of the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University, spent a whole week before he could barely finish reading "The Crucible" recommended to him by Song Shiqing.

Zhang Hongguang is a highly respected professor who enjoys a high reputation in the domestic literary field.

Although few people know this person's name, it is no exaggeration to say that Zhang Hongguang's influence in the contemporary literary world is not inferior to Liu Zhenyun.

Naturally, there is no need to doubt Zhang Hongguang's literary attainments.

However, everyone has weaknesses.

Zhang Hongguang's weakness is that he is old and not in good health, and is prone to angina
"Gudong gudong." Zhang Hongguang picked up the hot water on the table and drank two sips of the quick-saving heart pills. When the heart pills flowed down his throat along with the hot water and finally reached his stomach, he breathed a sigh of relief, "I finally finished reading it."

Looking at the current literary market, it is rare to see something like Jiang Hai's "The Crucible"——

Pure darkness!

A literary work in which almost all the characters are villains?

How dark is "The Crucible"?
It’s so dark that there’s no hope!

It’s so dark that no one can see the dawn!

From the beginning to the end, an extremely depressed mood runs through the beginning of the article to the end.
If ordinary writers were to write "The Crucible", they would consider the readers' emotions and write after the depressing plot ends.
Is it bound to have an extremely positive ending?

The so-called positive ending means that the bad guys are eventually brought to justice, light eventually defeats darkness, the children are finally rescued from hell, and everything ushers in a new beginning.

But Jiang Hai not only did not do so, he even deepened the depressing plot of the whole book -

Those villains who made people grit their teeth in hatred, not only did they not die, but they are living better than each other?

The violent villain A, the vicious villain C, and the vicious villain D not only did not suffer any punishment, but they even escaped legal sanctions?

Even the dean of the welfare college, his evil deeds were not disclosed by reporters, and he was even applauded and given flowers.
He reached the end of his life with a happy family, a happy life and good health.

After he passed away, people would express gratitude to him when they mentioned him:

"Good man! This is a really good man!"

"This dean is a well-known kind man. He has helped many homeless children here for free."

On the contrary, those reporters and teachers who wanted to reveal the truth and save the children from the fire and water not only fell in the pursuit of justice, but even burned their own lives, it was still of no avail.

Even at the end of the article, they are still condemned by the masses who are unaware of the truth:

"Don't worry!"

"Just to gain a little traffic and attention, you fabricate rumors and slander our principal and teachers?"

“These people are such rubbish.”

This ironic ending is worth pondering.

When I saw the ending of "The Crucible":

【We fight all the way, not to change the world, but to prevent the world from changing us. 】

Then think of the principal of the school for the deaf and dumb, who has retired after achieving success, and that ironic smile.

Suddenly, I became angry.

Couldn't help it.

Dean Zhang Hongguang quickly took two quick-acting heart-saving pills and stuffed them into his mouth:

“This book really makes me feel uncomfortable.”

For ordinary people, when reading "The Crucible", the focus must be on the cruel and inhumane plots in the book that are simply unacceptable. After reading it once, people will feel depressed and suffocated and can never forget it.

However, in the eyes of intellectuals, these dark plots are not the theme that the entire book wants to express.

According to Dean Zhang Hongguang, the literary work "The Crucible" is -

It is a book with great practical significance.

"On the surface, it is about writing about the ugliness of human nature, but in reality, it is a metaphor and satire of the darkness of Korean society by depicting the atrocities of these beastly teachers and students."

Whether it is collusion between the courts and the police, or inaction by various government departments.

These all reflect the ugliness of human nature and highlight one point:

The ugliness of human nature has no bottom line!

Even though Zhang Hongguang was well-read and had seen many ups and downs, when he turned the page to the end of The Crucible, he saw the bloody words:
【This novel is adapted from real events. 】

His heart would ache terribly.

Sometimes it is really hard to believe that this is already the 21st century. In this era that prides itself on being civilized, how can such cruel and inhumane things still happen?

Even though Zhang Hongguang thought he was well-read and had strong enough psychological endurance, when he saw this line of handwriting with his own eyes.

Instantly, he almost fainted:
"My heart can't take it anymore"

Words should be as sharp as a knife.

It is to be like the sharpest sword, piercing people's souls.

If a writer cannot use his pen as a blade and ink as a tip, then what is the meaning of such literature?
As an author, Zhang Hongguang naturally knew how much pressure Jiang Hai had to bear in publishing such a purely realistic literary work.

But even under such tremendous pressure.

Jiang Hai still sticks to his bottom line and does not use words to whitewash the situation, but chooses to face the readers with the cruel and bloody reality.
"This Jiang Hai is really a character."

It takes a week.

Finally I finished reading Jiang Hai's book "The Crucible" word by word.

Zhang Hongguang immediately used his cell phone to send a message to his student Song Shiqing:
"Shi Qing, come here. I want to discuss the book "The Crucible" with you."

But who would have thought that the moment this message was sent, Zhang Hongguang received an extremely shocking message -

"Teacher, I'm afraid we can't discuss this because I haven't finished reading it."

Song Shiqing had originally recommended The Crucible to him, but Song Shiqing, as the recommender, not only did he not finish reading The Crucible, but he also asked him back:
"Will the subsequent plot continue the dark trend from before?"

“If it’s too painful to read, I won’t read it.”

The teacher and you are connected in heart, do you use your brains with the teacher?
I finished reading the book you recommended to me while taking quick-acting and careful pills, but you were afraid of being abused.
Don't even look?
"So I'm your test subject right???"

Zhang Hongguang was so furious when he heard the news that he almost lost his temper again.

He closed his eyes and kept adjusting his breathing:
"Don't get angry, don't get angry. If you get angry and become sick, no one can help you."

After a while of silence.

Zhang Hongguang immediately controlled his emotions and sent a message to Song Shiqing:
“This is an extremely classic realistic literature!”

"I guarantee in the name of a teacher that the sequel to the story will not continue the dark direction of the previous one."

If we die, we die together. No one can escape!
I've been caught in the rain, so I'll tear your umbrellas into pieces!

This sentence should be a true portrayal of Dean Zhang Hongguang at this moment?

Just as he was thinking about how to convince Song Shiqing to finish reading the sequel to "The Crucible".

Just by coincidence, he glanced and saw a piece of news on the Internet:
[The Crucible, an original literary work by Chinese writer Jiang Hai, will be officially released in Korean theaters.]

"Don't want to read novels?"

"Then it's not impossible to watch a movie adapted from a novel."

(End of this chapter)