It turned out that my best friend was stabbed in the back by a colleague, which not only ruined his promotion opportunity, but also was criticized by the leader. Colleagues also benefited from it.

Whether in the workplace or in life, we can often see the selfishness and darkness of human nature. Many people choose to trample on and sacrifice others for their own interests. They create light for themselves, but they trap others in darkness.

My best friend especially hates people like colleagues and vows to make her look good.

However, when she overheard that her colleague had recently divorced and was fighting for the custody of her children with her husband, she urgently needed a promotion to prove her financial ability.

Human nature is a very complicated thing. Sometimes it looks black and white, but when you know more things, you may change your mind: although it is not "white", it doesn't look so "black". Then, in the face of the complexity and problems of human nature, should we choose to compromise or fight?

Just when I was puzzled, I came across the book Bear Town, which gave me some new thoughts.

Bear Town, planned and published by Mo Tie Books, is a new work by Swedish novelist Fredrik Backman after A Man named Ovi, Grandma's Apology Letter and Life on the List. After its publication, it was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literature Award and the People's Choice Award. Goodreads won the praise of more than 65,438+065,438+000,000 readers, entered the annual novel selection and won the Swedish book of the year. At present, the book has been published in the United States, Britain, Denmark, Sweden and other places.

The story of Bear Town takes place in a remote, cold and depressing town. The ice hockey team is the hope to save this town. It can be said that the rise and fall of the ice hockey team is related to the life and death of the town and the vital interests of every resident in the town.

So, everyone in town believes this: you can sacrifice everything for yourself for the ice hockey team.

It happened that at the critical moment when the ice hockey team was about to confront other teams, an accident happened: Kevin, the star player of the ice hockey team, raped Maya, the daughter of Peter, the director of the ice hockey team. Defend Maya, sentence Kevin, the ice hockey team will be hit hard, the future of the town will be gloomy, and the interests of every resident will be damaged; Protecting Kevin will plunge fifteen-year-old Maya into darkness. Even if the final facts have come out, no one can make a choice wholeheartedly in the sharp conflict between interests and conscience. Ice hockey is like a prism, reflecting the ugliness and kindness of everyone in the town. At this point, the facts are not important, and the test is human nature.

At the beginning, the author set a suspense for the reader by flashback.

"One night at the end of March, a girl went straight into the forest with a double-barreled shotgun, put a gun to a person's forehead and pulled the trigger."

Then, the author slowly describes the town, the ice hockey team and players in the town, and the residents in the town. The reader is anxious to know the result of this suspense, but the author seems to be in no hurry. It was not until the middle of the book that the reader saw the accident of rape. It can be said that the narrative rhythm is quite slow.

Then, around the accident, the author describes the reactions of all walks of life and various stakeholders in the town. The darkness of human nature is enough for readers to feel the unprecedented humiliation and pressure faced by Maya. For example:

As night fell, the truth spread, and no one wrote "Maya" on the computer and mobile phone in Bear Town. They only wrote "M", or "that young woman" or "bitch". Nobody said "rape", everyone said "accusation". They first said "nothing happened", then said "even if something did happen, it was voluntary", and then escalated to "even if it wasn't voluntary, she had only herself to blame. She was drunk and followed his room. She thought something would happen. " . At first, she thought, but in the end, she deserved it.

This makes readers guess that justice cannot be done, and it seems natural for Maya to kill Kevin. This also makes readers sweat for Maya. But the author didn't turn the pen until the end of the book. Maya pulled the trigger, but she didn't load it. Ten years later, Maya lived a successful and sunny life. The reader breathed a sigh of relief for Maya and was even more proud of her bravery.

The story is not complicated, but the author wrote a thick novel of nearly 400 pages. On the premise of thin plot, the author can still win the readers' love, which benefits from the author's superb writing style.

Unique narrative style. The author boldly broke through the narrative mode he was good at, and adopted the montage-like way of movies to frequently switch between different characters and scenes and describe them alternately. At the same time, in the description of characters, psychological description is widely used to explore the inner world of characters and the reasons for their behavior. This description makes the novel more vivid, three-dimensional and spatial.

Unique language style. The author is good at mixing humor, satire and incisive comments in narration and description. One is a lone ranger, and the other is a mother who inculcates like a hen. They are bound to be jealous of each other. ""When Maya went to Anna's house for the first time and heard her parents quarreling, she understood: Anna may be familiar with the lake, but deep down, there is no guarantee that she will not walk on thin ice in other aspects. " Such language books abound.

Vivid detail description. The author is good at capturing details and using some small moves to make the characters come alive. For example, a colleague who wrote about Maya mother, "licked her tongue with her teeth before and after, and her face showed a disgusting look", "Bite off a cracked nail and spit it into the wastebasket".

Because of this, readers are deeply attracted before they know the specific plot.

With the progress of reading, the author's keen insight into the world is also amazing. In the process of reading, sometimes I feel "really so" and "too thorough". Some people say that a good author can arouse the hearts of readers. No wonder Bear Town was a great success as soon as it was published.

? The genius of this book lies in that although the author describes the complexity of human nature in depth, he does not presuppose a position, but digs into the reasons for the formation of characters' personalities, the motives behind behaviors and the hearts behind activities. Even Kevin, a rapist, has mixed feelings for him when readers know his love for ice hockey, his family situation, his parents' alienated upbringing, his inner desire and fragility.

In the book, the author does not arbitrarily tell readers what is good and what is bad, but profoundly reveals how a person becomes who he is now and how he makes the choice of appearing. In this process, it is more to arouse readers' deep thinking about complex human nature.

Through the author's description, "creating light for yourself and trapping others in darkness" seems to be less hateful.

Ice hockey sponsors want to force Peter to leave the ice hockey team for profit. Kevin's father chased the Maya family to protect the lives of his son and his family. Ice hockey players humiliated and intimidated the Maya for the continued existence and development of the ice hockey team. The parents of hockey players chose to side with Kevin for their children. ...

Each of us will face such a choice to some extent. These people in Bear Town, they may not really want to push Maya into the dark abyss, they just want to create their own light.

This also makes people feel deeply sorry and helpless. People live in this world and have so many necessities. Sometimes, people have to do things against their will for their families and for themselves.

The most vivid part of this book is that although it is difficult to stick to the heart, human nature continues to shine.

Ama, a hockey player who lives at the bottom of society and is discriminated against because she comes from other places, is very eager to change her mother and her destiny through ice hockey, so she spends much more time and energy on ice hockey than others. But he resisted the threat and temptation of Kevin's father and chose to tell the truth he saw in front of everyone.

Ramona, the small owner of the bar, and several men adopted by her knew that they would stand on Maya's side and be isolated by the whole town, but they still chose to openly support Maya.

The mother of ice hockey player Bobo stopped a young man twice his age and protected Yamaraja who told the truth.

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It is the brilliance of human nature that makes us still full of hope for the beauty of the world. The brilliance of human nature can not be separated from the power of love in friendship and affection: mother's guidance to Maya, parents' and younger brothers' love to Maya, girlfriends' support to Maya, and some small town residents' silent support to Maya in their own way. ...

Life is hard and human nature is complicated, but with love, we will eventually walk through the darkness, redeem ourselves, follow our hearts and live a sunny life like Maya.

When our immediate interests conflict with justice, do we create light for ourselves or keep others in the dark? In the face of the darkness of human nature, are we fighting or compromising? After reading this book, perhaps, everyone has his own answer. No matter how we choose, we will never forget these deafening words in the book:

In the end, everything will exist between you and God, and it has nothing to do with you and everyone else.

They are also voting to decide the future of the town, their own future and even everyone's future.

They're just scared. They're just looking for a scapegoat.

Learn to admit failure and take responsibility for your mistakes.

Few things in life are more difficult than admitting your hypocrisy.

What is society? Society is the sum of our choices.

(DoubanNo.: Day 10)