
The Trapped Cocoon
困蛹
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 428k Words
- Genre
- Danmei (BL)
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 2y ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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Recommendation: This article is really good. My wife's writing style is very good. The two books in the column, "Southern Chao" and "Jiangdu Boy", are also very good! Strongly share with sisters!
Teacher, why don't you write a side story? It's hard to deny your kindness. 555. Can you write a dimension where Zhou Chan is still alive?
Four years have passed since Asuyu, please write some extra stories for us.
I agree very much with what Li Jianheng said in Chapter 124, "People are frightened by the word mental illness, but in fact, mental patients are the ones who are afraid of people." The formula that mental illness = abnormality has been engraved in the bones of everyone, including mental patients. It is not uncommon for mentally ill patients to be discriminated against and excluded in reality. For example, when people hear about split personality in reality, their first reaction is to be afraid, because many film and television dramas and stereotypes label split personality as "crazy", which leads to patients with split personality in reality (whether good or bad) to be looked at in a strange way. (Even though many people now accept most mental illnesses well, it is inevitable that some people will look down upon mental patients. Take high school and junior high school, where depression and anxiety are the most severe. When a person is suddenly depressed/anxious, there will be some people who say that he is pretending but is not real, but is actually hypocritical. , Even if this phenomenon is common among parents and children, there is no shortage of students who will also make such remarks. In addition, there are always some good people among middle and high school students (no shooting, all middle and high school students are not allowed to dance with me, jumping by default will hurt your feet), which will cause him to be stared at in a strange way in school, or attacked by those remarks, or both) Back to the article When I read it, I actually felt that this article was not a novel, but a memoir of a person. There would be sentences like "Yeah, he hadn't thought of it yet..." In the article. If it were replaced by other articles, it might have a strange sense of separation (like it feels like this sentence was inserted into the trailer, and there would be a strong sense of separation). But when I read this article, it didn't. The reason may be because the entire article is written from Duan Lan's perspective. This is what I like the most and is the unique part of this article. There are very few supporting characters in the entire article, but it is described from Duan Lan's perspective, which makes the sense of substitution and emotional transmission of this article even stronger. When reading the article, I have a sense of déjà vu as the recorder was sitting at the desk and writing down these people's stories one by one. This also gives the whole article a strong sense of "living people". The author chooses to depict these sad and human stories from Duan Lan's perspective, tearing apart those sad wounds and showing them to us, telling us that this world is really rotten. Duan Lan's boyhood is like a weird drama. Everyone is acting out their sad but necessary boyhood on the stage. Jiang Pu, she has good grades because she wants her parents to take a look at her. Zhuang Yan, who worked hard with her mother to study well, ended up committing suicide and transferring to another school. (But I have to say that Zhuang Yan's despair when she asked Duan Lan, "Are we monsters?" Was really strong. Obviously I am not her, nor am I a psychopath, but I felt her despair and helplessness at that moment. "Are we monsters?" Was her question about the world. It's a question about myself and a despair for myself. It's very shocking.) I especially want to talk about the character Jiang Pu. Her perception is very complicated. I felt she was hateful and pitiful when she stole notes and framed others. I felt sorry for her when she called her after the college entrance examination. She has a family that values boys over girls. It was originally her expectation to get her parents' attention, but later it turned into an obsession, which also led to her sadness. Let's talk about Jiang Lintao again. My impressions of him are also very complicated. As far as teaching is concerned, he is a good teacher, but for Duan Lan and Zhou Jing, , he was the last straw that broke the camel's back. If he had not helped Zhou's father change his will, maybe Zhou Pu would not have died, and Duan Lan also had the ability to believe in people. But because he changed his will, it led to Zhou Pu's death and the collapse of Duan Lan's trust in others. I agree with what Jiang Lintao said about idealists: "Idealists are either crazy or dead." I don't completely agree (please don't argue with your personal opinion, you have your own reasons). I agree because idealists are paranoid, and paranoid idealists are destined to end up on the road of no return (of course, it does not necessarily mean that). However, there are also some normal idealists, but there is a high probability that these latter idealists will become realists. Finally, let's talk about Duan Lan and Li Jianheng. Duan Lan is the sad protagonist and perspective in the memories. All his sadness comes from two words, human world and redemption. When he was a boy, he suffered from mental illness due to exam pressure and pressure from Liu Yao. Those pains from the world are like snowflakes in an avalanche. If Laoguai's death is the beginning of the avalanche, then Jiang Lintao's betrayal and Zhou Pu's death are the end of the avalanche. Duan Lan actually had a strong sense of redemption. He grabbed Nie Qingluo, who was about to take revenge, and accompanied Zhou Jing in the corner of the library. He grabbed Li Jianheng, who was on the verge of collapse, and grabbed Tang Ruokui, who was on the verge of giving up. He helped Su Qiang. , Shen Chong and others, as Li Jianheng said, his heart knot is redemption and the recurrence of sorrow. Because he is afraid of the recurrence of sorrow, he wants to redeem, but the redemption fails, and he is afraid of the recurrence of sorrow and yet goes to redemption. This leads to the creation of an endless loop and knot. And Li Jianheng is a very tough and powerful character. His core is stable (although he was not very stable in those ten years). When faced with Duan Lan's escape time and time again, he desperately helped him get out of the abyss and loved Duan Lan desperately. He is a very great person, because this is difficult for many people to do. Finally, I would like to say that this article is actually a very classic routine. Mental illness in school is a commonplace topic, but no article has written the author's feeling (praise! It's so awesome!). The author did not write about a wanton and sunny boyhood, but used every character to depict a sad boyhood. Every supporting role is an important part of this tragic stage. [Blue Heart]
Finished spreading flowers!!!! It's so pretty! It's so pretty! The writing style, story-telling, and philosophy of this novel are beyond comparison with many books that have collected tens of thousands of dollars! Give me fire!!!
I feel it is the best book I have read this year. It was so depressing when it was written in high school, and it even made me think that the reunion later was like a fantasy. Fortunately, it's not. It's so rare to find happiness after all the hardships.
The only regret is that the matter about grandma has not been explained clearly, and it has always been pressing in my heart. I can't get up and down. It's so uncomfortable.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I finished reading it, I feel so empty. . Author, you are so cruel. Why don't you have a side story? I downloaded Jinjiang just for you. It's really, really good.
I thought that in the middle, Li Jianyan would tell Duan Lan why he didn't answer his call in the first place, but when I saw the end, he still didn't say it. I think this is also to prevent Duan Lan from thinking wildly. Sometimes there are things that are left unsaid or the best choice for the ending. Fortunately... They have been redeeming and loving each other. The writing is really good, I read it in one sitting.
After reading it, it does seem like the author said it has a rather depressing tone. The novel may have some exaggerated and idealized elements, but the most breathless aspect of high school life in the whole novel seems so real, and that is the path that many people have walked. "You can start your life over, but you only have one college entrance examination." Such a ridiculous sentence has been believed by people for so many years. The students in the attached middle school are all the proud ones of heaven, but why are their endings unworthy of the ups and downs they have endured along the way? It is the lifeless atmosphere, the pressure from teachers, and the expectations of their families that overwhelm them, constantly squeezing their already barren spiritual world, and finally leading to one tragedy after another. What shocked and moved me the most in the whole book was actually the story of Zhou Cicada. The cicada hibernated underground for eighteen years and only sang for three months. Zhou Chan's endurance in the first eighteen years of his life was originally meant to endure humiliation and bear the burden of pursuing his dream in college. He is the same as Duan Lan, but different. Duan Lan's depression was caused by the pain of boiling a frog in warm water, while Zhou Chan, in addition to a high-pressure environment, also had sexual pain that accompanied him when he was a boy. Therefore, he matured earlier than Duan Lan, packaged himself up, and begged for real relief after the college entrance examination, so he could give rational advice. Because he has a dream in his heart, people will not fall down, and they must climb to the end. So when he found out that his wish had been changed, his dream was shattered. This situation was more serious than Duan Lan, because at that moment, what he endured was the backlash of eighteen years of suppressed pain, the absurdity of life's destiny, and the collapse of faith. Such a smart person, how could he not have thought during the more than four hours on the rooftop that his father could change his mind without the help of his class teacher. The betrayal of his mentor and friend became the last straw that crushed him, and his love finally turned into ashes, Zhou Chan, Zhou Chan. But he did not live to the age of eighteen when Xia Chan ended. Let's talk about Jiang Lintao. I think this person is a very important character in the whole book. He is Duan Lan's teacher, who briefly brought light to his high school life; he was the biggest accomplice in Zhou Chan's death, pushing him to jump off the rooftop. A good guy and a bad guy. I was very happy when I first saw this man appear. I thought he would be the guide who would lead these little bitter melons to find a way out of the prison. I never thought that he would be the gravedigger who leads the students to their death. After thinking about it again, I realized that everything was traceable. He was just an atypical refined egoist. Are those words that enlightened Duan Lan true? Yes. But he also talked about the compromises he made in life and the physics teacher who didn't like physics. His courage as a young boy who rebelled against the world had long been smoothed away in the dust. He gave up his hobbies for a living, so why wouldn't he give up being a student because of the pressure? I think this is a wonderful foreshadowing by the author. Jiang Lintao never said that he was a good person. No matter what impact he had on his students, what he cared about most was always himself. But this is the normal state of society, but Duan Lan and Jiang Chan learned this bloody lesson in advance, which is completely contrary to what is taught in books, and is enough to shake the faith of young people, especially these "top students" who are newly devoted to learning and are slightly green in life. In this test of college entrance examination, those of us who come ashore are not winners, but survivors. High school life can only be recalled and cannot be repeated. The memory may be beautified, but the impact it has will haunt us throughout our lives. Duan Lan and Zhou Chan are not just one person, but thousands of us, whose fate is determined by this obedience test. I hope Duan Lan will get better and better in the future, rediscover the meaning of the world, and slowly heal the trauma of his youth; if there is an afterlife, I hope Zhou Chanmeng will embrace his dream and no longer be just a desperate summer cicada, enjoying life after the age of eighteen.