First, the creative characteristics of Rao Xueman's novels
(A) the emotion of teenagers as the theme
Love is an eternal theme in Rao Xueman's works. She uses delicate brushstrokes to outline the love feelings of teenagers with relatives, friends and lovers. She keenly observes the details of the growth of teenagers, and expresses them through sad and caring words in her novels. The description of the characters' emotions in the novel shows the troubles of family, friendship and love in the process of teenagers' growth, and arouses our deep understanding of the emotional pain of generations.
In his series of novels, affection, friendship and love are expressed in different degrees. The first is the affection of "moistening things silently". The characters in Rao Xueman's works are reserved in the expression of affection. They don't want to impress you vigorously, but inadvertently moisten your heart and mine. In many of the author's novels, the positive description of family affection is as precious as ink, but this has not reduced the touch brought by this simple emotion to readers. It is this kind of understatement that makes people remember deeply. In The Little Devil's Golden Castle, Bao Baolan, one of the heroines, divorced her parents when she was a child and lived with her grandmother. The affection between Bao Baolan and grandma goes back to ancient times, but the author only used two ordinary details of life to show this deep affection incisively and vividly. This is even worse than the emotional implication expressed in a lot of space. [2] Secondly, it is simple and pure friendship. Rao Xueman's grasp of the friendship between teenagers is very accurate, with less glitz and hypocrisy in daily life and more simplicity and purity. All kinds of colored labels that should not be added to teenagers, such as good children and bad children, have been removed. As long as both sides respect each other and treat each other sincerely, friendship will exist. In The Hourglass, the simple and simple emotion between Mo Woxing and Misa is touching. [3] Again, it is brave, persistent and painful love. Love is the main theme of Rao Xueman's youth series novels, and every work uses a lot of pen and ink to describe the ignorant feelings of boys and girls. The characters in the author's works are brave and persistent in their pursuit of love. They are desperate, dare to love and hate, and even reckless. In Left Ear, the bad girl's pursuit of love is a typical example described by the author. Of course, behind this persistence and courage, a tender heart has long been devastated and scarred, which also shows us the ups and downs of youth love from another side. [4] Another example is "The Hourglass". The girl Jiang Lan broke the mainstream values and pursued love by hook or by crook, and her youthful emotions sprouted, which was doomed to be long and painful. [3]
(B) Multi-perspective narrative structure and unique psychological description
Throughout Rao Xueman's youth series, we can see that they all have such a similar feature in form: the story is unfolded in chapters and sections, and each chapter is an independent story, which can be separated or combined to form a big clue of plot development. Each chapter of it is based on the self-report of a hero in the novel, and it changes at will in the past, present and future, thus forming the author's unique multi-perspective narrative structure. This unique narrative method makes the narrative closely related, and the story ups and downs, which not only leaves the reader with room for imagination, but also ensures the integrity of the story. The bittersweet, The Golden Castle of the Little Demon, The Left Ear, The Hourglass and The Song of Parting apply this multi-perspective narrative structure to the flow. For example, Sweet and Sour tells the story from two different angles: Tian and Linzhi. In the first chapter, from Tian's perspective, the author takes readers as familiar with everything around them as flowing water, all the characters appear, the scene is gradually revealed, and the structure of the whole novel is gradually presented to the readers. At the same time, due to the limitation of a single perspective, this chapter has left many mysteries, and the understanding of the second protagonist Linzhi is still quite superficial. Subsequently, in the second chapter, the author skillfully changed the narrative angle and recounted the previous characters from Linzhi's perspective. The fog that just left was cleared away one by one, and the understanding of Linzhi was more three-dimensional and full. [4] This narrative method not only effectively stimulates readers' desire to read, but also makes the plot more complete, fills the defect of single narrative angle, and makes the characters more full and three-dimensional. The biggest advantage of this way is that it can penetrate into the hearts of teenagers through the monologue of the protagonist and reproduce their emotional experiences more comprehensively and truly.
Book entertainment-images, audio and video.
The entertainment of books is a new publishing and cultural phenomenon in the era of reading pictures with increasingly diversified and three-dimensional book binding and marketing. Specifically, some trendy writers and publishers shoot the covers and text illustrations of books with beautiful models, and even they appear in singles, MVs and even movies adapted from books to cooperate with the release of books and win the recognition of a new generation of readers.
In the field of youth literature, Rao Xueman first put forward the concept of book entertainment, trying to lead an unprecedented revolution in the field of literature. When the book industry was secretly entertaining, Rao Xueman made a high-profile book entertainment brand everywhere. She shoots MVs for her book works, selects book models, and drafts the leading role in movies. Rao Xueman made his books almost a model of all-round entertainment. By adding a series of entertainment and fashion elements, and adding picture and sound elements to the novel, Rao Xueman's works have been adapted into film and television dramas and sold together with books. Her works have gained a bumper harvest in the market and have been on the bestseller list for many times, so her worth ranks among the top three in the rich list of writers. Meanwhile, critics have been criticizing her works. In this regard, she said many times in the interview that books have been entertaining since ancient times. Poetry, music, writing and other literary classics have the characteristics of entertainment from the beginning. They are often accompanied by pictures and tunes, but they are artificially separated later, but we cannot deny their literary value because of this. However, Rao Xueman, who benefited from the exploration of book entertainment, also stressed: "Book packaging is only a means, 80% of which lies in the work itself, but good packaging can enhance the influence of the work by more than 20%, maybe 200%." This is undoubtedly a blow to some critics' doubts about the poor content of books and entertainment works.
Second, the value and influence of Rao Xueman's literary creation
(A) the practical significance and value of Rao Xueman's literary creation
First of all, a wide range of topics provide educators with rich realistic materials. In Rao Xueman's youth literature series, the protagonist's growing environment is rich and varied, including single-parent family, zero-parent family and two-parent family. Not only that, the author also continued to branch out on the basis of the above three growing environments, and wrote about the life and emotional situation of teenagers under various family faces, such as I am not a bad girl, a single-parent family with divorced parents, [5] The Hourglass, a single-parent family with one parent dying early, [3] The "Bala Bala" in Left Ear comes from a family with zero parents and lives with grandparents. In a two-parent family, some parents live in different places for work reasons, and some parents are always around. [2] Based on keen observation, the author explored and learned a lot of realistic materials, and through the careful construction of different growth environments for young heroes, he exposed the possible problems in the growth process of contemporary teenagers in an all-round way, providing rich cases for youth education.