The theme of Frog is rural doctors and family planning. It's not that Mo Yan deliberately wrote this sensitive theme, but that Mo Yan was sent to this world by his aunt, so Mo Yan always wants to write about his aunt in the novel one day. Family planning that has been implemented for more than 30 years must be involved.
2, content overview:
Mainly tells the life of the rural doctor "Auntie". Aunt's father is a military doctor of the Eighth Route Army and is very famous in Jiaodong. "Auntie" inherited the mantle and began to implement new delivery methods in rural areas, which soon replaced the position of "old lady and grandmother" in women's hearts and delivered one baby after another with new methods. Babies delivered by Auntie are all over the northeast of Gaomi, and unborn babies that can be killed by Auntie are also all over the northeast of Gaomi. While practicing medicine, my aunt led her disciples to implement the family planning policy. Letting the man who gave birth to a child be ligated and the pregnant woman who gave birth to a child have an abortion have become two major events of "aunt".
The novel tells the life experiences of rural female doctors and aunts who have been engaged in obstetrics and gynecology for more than 50 years, reflects the ups and downs of rural fertility history in the past 60 years in New China, and describes the arduous and complicated historical process that the country has gone through to control the rapid population growth and implement the national policy of family planning.
3. Frog appreciation:
Frog is Mo Yan's eleventh novel, which has been brewing for more than ten years, writing for four years, revising three drafts and concentrating on creation. Compared with Mo Yan's other important novels, Wine Country, Sandalwood Punishment and Fatigue of Life and Death, Frog continues their persistent exploration of the epic reflection of novel structure, narrative language, aesthetic taste, characterization and social changes.
The central word of Mo Yan's novel Frog (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2009, 65438+February edition) is "family planning", but this is only a superficial phenomenon. Behind this central word lies Mo Yan's sincere reverence and worship for life (reproduction).
Frog is a realistic work, which truly reflects the difficult implementation process of the national policy of family planning in the northeast of Gaomi, Shandong Province. Wan Xin has two contradictory identities: one is a rural doctor, who has delivered nearly 10 thousand babies in his life and is called the "goddess who sends children"; The other is a family planning cadre who resolutely implements the national policy of family planning, which is also commonly known as the "murderer". For Wan Xin, to achieve reunification, she has lived in unavoidable extreme contradictions and pains all her life. When reading Frog, readers always feel cruel: first, the plot of the novel and the fate of the characters are cruel; second, Mo Yan objectively and calmly wrote the cruelty of extreme pain in other people's souls.
Gaomi Northeast Township is not only the place where the story takes place, but also a region in a general sense. At the beginning of the implementation of the national family planning policy, there were countless towns and villages in Northeast China, and there were many family planning cadres like Wan Xin. Therefore, Mo Yan's writing has extensive representativeness and practical significance.
Everything in Frog points to the word "life", and the names of the main characters, stories and even the titles of publications are all singing for life. All these allegorical and symbolic management techniques push the novel to a higher level, that is, caring for life, praising life and fearing life.
The world has praised Mo Yan's works, mostly because of his clever conception but unrestrained language. Frogs are uncharacteristic, with clean language and few side branches. The writing of Frog is unique, with five chapters consisting of four long letters and a nine-act film crew. The epistolary narrative not only facilitates Mo Yan's writing, but also narrows the distance between time and space and the distance between the author and the reader. Drama is a new narrative and effective supplement to Xin from another angle, which pushes Mo Yan's fear and worship complex of life to a deeper level and makes the whole novel more meaningful and tense.