A few days after the start of school, I saw "Little Egg" reading Osamu Dazai's Disqualification on Earth, and I couldn't help but plop: Can a sixth-grade child read such a "mourning" literary work? I went over and asked tentatively, "Can you understand it?" She looked up with a charming smile: "Yes!" In the following days, I read several of her essays, all about "humanity" and "deception", which made my heart seem to be intertwined. "How do you feel recently?" Finally I got up the courage to ask her. "Not bad." "Little Egg" raised her snow-white face and looked at me with a smile. "Nothing unhappy, right?" "no!" She continued to smile sweetly, and the golden sunshine spread all over her body, making her look transparent and bright. I'm relieved. It seems that I worry too much.
Osamu Dazai is like a wonderful flower in the literary world, with bright colors and rich fragrance, reaching to the depths of people's hearts. Anyone who has read him will be deeply shocked by a thorn. Osamu Dazai's personal experience is rich, tortuous and tragic. Many of his works, such as Disqualification in the World, are created with the theme of "the distress of life" and are called "hooliganism" in literary thought. The word "hooliganism" comes from the declaration of the protagonist in Osamu Dazai's Pandora's Box: "I am a hooligan, resisting bondage." Osamu Dazai's works are popular again in China, which is related to "mourning culture". Its fans tend to be "younger", and some shout "human beings are disqualified" and "I am sorry for being born" all the time, giving them reasonable excuses for bad behavior such as not working hard and eating the elderly. So many parents shake their heads when they hear Osamu Dazai, and stop their children from reading his books.
Xiaohui is the second child in our class to read Osamu Dazai's book. She was born with a melancholy face and hid herself with a mask all day. Her articles are also "in-depth", often involving topics such as friendship, affection, concern and betrayal. She is a girl who is good at thinking. At this reading meeting, she took a handwritten "speech" to the podium. In this speech entitled Forever Youth, she first introduces the background of Osamu Dazai's novels coming into readers' sight for the first time in Chinese mainland. She said that Osamu Dazai's literature "aroused readers' weakest and most stubborn homesickness", and I quite agree. Next, the child briefly introduced Osamu Dazai's personal experience and some famous sayings in his works. Finally, Xiaohui expressed her love for Osamu Dazai in her own way: "As for why she didn't mention anything about the contents of the book, I just want to say that I don't want to defile this godlike work." She called on us to "go and see" and praised Osamu Dazai's "eternal youth" and "eternal youth as a god" and Osamu Dazai's literature.
After listening to her story, I was shocked-children's horizons are much broader than ours. We only saw Osamu Dazai's Mourning, but in the eyes of this sixth-grade child, Osamu Dazai and his works have a "perfect and beautiful wreath". Then, instead of letting Xiaohui return to her seat easily, I continued to ask, "What is your deepest feeling after reading his book?" Xiaohui did not hesitate for a moment, and immediately replied: "What impressed me most about this book" Disqualification on Earth "was not the sad plot and paragraphs, but the way different people handled different problems. Although their ways are right and wrong, I have seen the emotions and wisdom of different people. This impressed me deeply. "
Look, these are our students. Their growth in reading and thinking is enough to reassure teachers: Osamu Dazai and Osamu Dazai's seemingly "forbidden books" can completely make them read and taste. The world is rich and colorful. We should try our best to let children see the multifaceted nature of life and let them learn to distinguish and choose. This is a positive attitude towards study and life, just like "Little Egg" and Xiaohui.