Recovery and reconstruction
“I” was assigned to count the people walking on the new bridge because of injury, but “I” was perfunctory because of dissatisfaction with the monotonous and boring life. In such a boring environment, “I” met a beautiful girl and refused to include her in the number of people he counted, because “I” refused to include his beloved girl in meaningless numbers. Later, he was lucky and went to count the carriages.
According to the writing background of the article, the author wants to express that the purpose of reconstruction is recovery, but if the reconstruction is not the original intention, then the recovery will lose its significance.
In the author’s eyes, the reconstruction of Germany has not completely solved the problem, only achieved material construction. But “I” found that the current recovery is not what I had at the beginning, that is, “yes – no – yes – no”. The reconstruction is not consistent with the previous one. “I” need to look for the previous “yes”, that is, “yes – no – yes – no – yes”.
At the same time, “I” found that it is impossible to resist powerful political institutions with personal strength, even the crisis of unemployment. However, when “I” was faced with the inspection of the chief statistician, “I” counted the number of people seriously, but still missed the number of the girl “I” loved.
Omission is a crisis, but it shows the maintenance and persistence of good things and a spiritual pursuit.
However, the result turned out to be unexpectedly “lucky”. The author wants to reveal that once people find that what they have recovered is not what they had, they need to reflect and pursue, but there is no need for revolution.
Because the original intention is to rebuild, there is no need for another war and destruction. Because of the limited power, we need wisdom to restore the original “beauty” and possession with wisdom. This is the author’s real rational thinking to be revealed in the process of reconstruction and recovery.
1. Story and plot
The plot is one of the most important factors in the narrative structure of the novel. It is the planning or design of events and main stories in literary works. It is the gradual expansion of a series of events linked by causality.
Everything that is told has a plot and a beginning and a end is called a story.
The plot is of great significance to storytelling novels, and is one of the most important links in the achievement of novels. A wonderful story originates from a wonderful plot. The plot is the core of the story, which determines the direction and development of the story as a whole.
At the beginning of “By the Bridge”, the plot is a bit confusing. The appearance of the girl injected live water into the calm plot and also into the protagonist’s emotions. The change of plot is the opportunity of emotional change. Finally, I went to count the carriages without danger, which seemed to give me hope. But when I think about it carefully, this kind of unintentional meaning is endless. His girl is doomed to be a flash in the pan, but the desire for freedom and the protection of human nature are still impressive.
2. Occurrence of the plot
The plot with antecedents and consequences has the ability of adhesion. It can be generated, like the nuclear explosion, which tightly gathers the whole novel in its tension. “I”‘s secret love for girls is closely related to the professional requirements for counting work. The girl is a flash of vitality to “me” and should not be regarded as meaningless figures. But counting the wrong number will affect “I”‘s hard-won job. In this irreconcilable contradiction, the author’s emotion is strongly stimulated, and the desire to rebuild the spiritual ruins is also highlighted.
3. Plot and details
The expressive and moving details can cover almost all our impressions of a novel. The details are inseparable from the plot. The details have a strong expressive force and play a finishing role in the plot and characters. Compared with the plot, the details are more specific and targeted. The plot is the skeleton, and the details are flesh and blood.
The details of the number of “I” make readers more intuitively feel the tedium of work and the severity of war sequelae. When “I” saw the details of the girl’s psychological activities, it also reflected “I”‘s attention to life and resistance to meaningless life. The details should be added selectively, and the details should be described according to the details of the article, so as to highlight the key points and deepen the impression. It is these specific details that make the whole plot full and substantial, and the novel also appears alive.
4. Basic mode of plot operation
Occurrence – “I” fell in love with a girl who crossed the bridge, and nearly broke her job because of her;
Development – inspection of “master statistician”;
High tide – how “I” deal with the boss and suppress my feelings for the girl;
The ending – “I” finally passed the test and turned into good luck.
5. Swing
In a novel, even if the beginning and ending are very simple, the writer will never let the character choose a shortcut to reach the end at one time, but let him turn around a hundred times and finally reach the other side of victory. So the novel is in a state of hesitation for many times.
In the process of swaying, the characters collide constantly in the novel world. Collision at different levels and angles will show different characteristics of the characters, so that readers can see a more three-dimensional and full character. Such characters are closer to real life, not absolutely black or white, nor monotonous good or bad.
It seems that people don’t like peace. Pushing forward the article in the swing enhances the visibility of the article, fully attracts readers’ attention, and makes readers unable to stop. We expect the hero and the girl to have a beautiful love, and hope that this love can become a bright light in the dark life of the hero. When this love ended in nothing, we deeply sighed for the powerlessness of the hero, and thought more deeply about how profound the physical and spiritual damage caused by the war was. The plot is like a clue that leads readers to understand the hidden inner world of the protagonist and even the author.
Faced with the uncertain plot and the increasingly clear protagonist, our feelings for such a life are also increasingly clear. The war destroyed not only the body, but also the mental trauma that took longer to repair. Decadent or life can’t be loved, happy in time or drunk in dreams, such a life state makes people walk away like corpses. Living is not just breathing. Pain and disaster should not stop the pace of life. The light of life hidden by the smoke of war needs a strong heart to wipe it clean. When a few people start a war for their interests, please consider the life in the world. Can you afford the price of their suffering?
