After seeing the news, Zhang nodded. He didn't care much about Xu Zizai's status as an anchor. In his eyes, there was no essential difference between Xu Zizai and other young people who loved reading.
"The Call of the Wild" only has more than 80,000 words, which is relatively short. Some fast readers can read it in less than two hours. Therefore, not long after the new book was released, there was already a lot of discussion about the new book on the Internet.
This novel is not entirely from Abu's perspective, but from an omniscient perspective. The omniscient perspective is nothing special and can also be called God's perspective.
There is nothing to say about the narrative technique. Even some elementary school students can use this narrative technique flexibly. However, Jack London is not an elementary school student after all, and the novel has been heavily polished, with some changes in the narrative technique.
Different from the ordinary omniscient perspective, this "Call of the Wild" intersperses the perspective of the outside world and Abu's main perspective, and also stirs up the time gap in the story line from time to time.
The former is Jack London's own thing, while the latter was added by Zhang Zhong.
This does not mean that Zhang Zhong is better than Jack London, but he can stand on the shoulders of Jack London and others and accomplish things more easily that Jack London cannot.
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Fang Ya put down the "Call of the Wild" in his hand and frowned.
After "Lord of the Flies", Zhang Zhong brought another fable to readers. As a scholar, Fang Ya's first thought when reading a book was to explore the author's writing motivation.
We must first find out why he wrote such a work, and then we can know how he wrote such a work.
In "The Call of the Wild", Fang Ya can feel a kind of cold survivalism of "survival of the fittest", and also feel the work's criticism of anthropocentrism.
At the end of the novel, Abu obeys the call of the wilderness and breaks away from the shackles of civilization, which is also his resistance to mankind.
What surprised Fang Ya most about this novel was its very shocking and epic language, which is rarely seen in Zhang Zhong's other works.
Except for some of Zhang Zhong's detective novels, his other novels, especially those in traditional literature, rarely use exquisite language to attract readers' attention.
The language used in works such as "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" and "Alive" is extremely ordinary and concise, and even long single sentences rarely appear, let alone descriptions of magnificent scenes.
The language of "Border Town" is beautiful, but it mainly focuses on the scenery and does not deliberately use language to create a special atmosphere.
"Sophie's World" is even more obvious. The sentences are extremely ordinary, neither beautiful nor concise. Many places are straightforward.
Fang Ya never doubted Zhang Zhong's language ability. He believed that Zhang Zhong's language style should be due to his literary preference.
Literary language usage preferences cannot be said to be right or wrong, nor can they be said to be better or worse.
Fang Ya gave an example before when teaching students. For example, there is a mountain in the distance. The writer wants to describe the mountain. Some writers will use extremely detailed language to describe the mountain and try to describe the mountain as much as possible.
The beauty and majesty of the mountain are presented in front of readers. However, some writers only write about a certain part of the mountain, such as the top of the mountain. Readers cannot know the whole mountain, but they can feel its beauty and towering when they see the top of the mountain.
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Which of these two writing techniques is more advanced?
No.
Readers can feel the different beauty from the two descriptions.
However, Zhang Zhong happened to use something he had never used before this time.
"Research has become more difficult."
Fang Ya sighed deeply.
Closing the book, Fang Ya rubbed his eyes, then turned on his phone to see what other book friends in the group thought of the new book.
However, no one in the group was discussing the new book at this time, but a game anchor.
After reading the discussion in the group, Fang Ya was surprised to find that the game anchor they were discussing was actually his "brother" Xu Wule.
It turns out that Xu Wule is a game anchor. The reason why everyone is talking about him is because he said an affectionate confession in today's live broadcast.
Fang Ya scratched his head. He had never thought that Xu Wule was actually a game anchor. He thought that his cheap brother was a college student who loved reading.
He also specially found the video of Xu Wule's confession to Zhang Zhong and watched it.
The young man is quite handsome and his confession is very affectionate.
When chatting in the group, Xu Wule behaved more lively, but in the video, he looked like an honest and friendly boy next door.
After thinking about it, Fang Ya found his cheap brother in his friends list and made a voice call.
"Hello, fourth brother?" Xu Zizai was a little surprised when he received Fang Ya's call. They had been friends with each other for a long time, but they had always communicated by text. This was the first time they had made a voice call.
Fang Ya smiled and said, "Listen to your voice, did you just wake up?"
"Well." In fact, he didn't just wake up, but was sleeping. It was Fang Ya's phone call that woke him up, "Fourth brother, what are you doing calling me?"
"I saw your news." Fang Ya said.
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and Xu Zizai said with some embarrassment, "I'll make you laugh, Fourth Brother."
"Why are you laughing? I watched the video, and the performance was very good. By the way, you said before that you were in Yanjing."
"Well, yes." There was some confusion in Xu Zizai's voice. He didn't know why Fang Ya suddenly mentioned this.
"I'm also in Yanjing. Do you have time in the past two days? Let's go out to have a meal together." Fang Ya said.
"Okay...Eh, that's not right, fourth brother, I remember you said that you were a Chinese teacher in a primary school in Jinling. How..."
"That's not important." Fang Ya laughed.
Hearing what Fang Ya said, Xu Zizai also realized that it seemed that his fourth brother had been wearing a vest before, and his identity as a primary school teacher was fabricated.
Xu Zizai didn't mind this too much. Wearing vests on the Internet was so common. Didn't he never tell anyone that he was a game anchor?
"Okay, where do you live? I live here at the north gate."
"I live in Nanmen, which is a bit far away."
"It's okay, I'll go find you. I have a good night's rest tonight," Xu Zizai said.
"Well, it's settled then. I'll send you the specific address later."
After the matter was settled, Xu Zizai hung up the phone. He was quite excited at the thought of meeting his fourth brother. But listening to his voice, he seemed to be quite young. He didn't know what kind of person he would be.
The reason why Fang Ya wanted to meet Xu Zizai was, on the one hand, because he found things like "running to the present" very interesting, and on the other hand, he really needed a different perspective to help him study Zhang Zhong, and as a lover
Xu Wule is a very good choice for a game anchor who studies.