Douban 8.4: At the trial scene of the murder, do you choose love or justice?

An obscure author, for ten years of amateur writing, after the novel was rejected by several consecutive publishers, he was finally published in the evaluation of editing "expecting is not high". Unexpectedly, once this book was published, it was sold well in the country and won numerous awards.

——Hhe, this is not a cool text full of imagination, but the story of American contemporary writer David Gaterson.

David Gaterson was born in Seattle in 1956. His father was a very famous and respected criminal defense lawyer in the local area. After graduating from college, he became a teacher and amateur reporter from a high school near Seattle. Essence

When he led students to visit the Museum of concentration of Japanese residents during the war, he had the idea of ​​creating a novel for it.

In the end, there is a classic work of this American contemporary literature- "Snow Falling Fruits Tree".

The novel began from a trial. The case of the case and the historical past were like snow, and they were full of circular islands near Seattle.

Once it was published, it won the annual book selection of the Fakina Award, the Bano Bookstore's discovery and the American publisher association. In 1999, the movie of the same name was released, and the stage dramas adapted from the novel also performed many times.

5 million readers have opened this book to calm themselves, looking for the sound of the instructions that indicate wisdom and rationality, kindness and justice.

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The truth to be buried by "prejudice and discrimination"

In the early morning of December 7, 1941, a team of Japanese planes quietly came to the calm and quiet Pearl Harbor, and the explosion sounded immediately -this was the Pearl Harbor incident that shocked the world, and the Pacific War broke out.

In this war, the situation is particularly embarrassing and is a group of Japanese Americans.

At this time, the US hatred of Japan reached its peak, and the American people vent their anger to the domestic Japanese.

"Little Boys" is hostile to the whole town.

One of the US government's wartime measures was to send more than 100,000 Japanese residents in the United States to a temporary concentration camp in the desert area on the grounds of "war security needs" and repatriated until the end of the war.

This is a unfortunate encounter that brings trouble, pain, and humiliation for the second -generation immigrants born in the United States.

Stills of the movie "Little Boy"

This history is the background of "Snow Fall".

The novel fictional is a fir in Seattle, a circular cricket, and the islands of strawberries, San Peizuo, which is closed from sea water to a relatively isolated small world, and people's days are calm and peaceful. However, the war still affects this paradise.

The juvenile Ishmel and his Japanese -American girl who had a young child began their first love. They met the cedar tree hole every day and depended on each other. However, the war interrupted the love of this young boy -the Japanese residents on the island were deported to the concentration camp, and the first branch family was no exception.

Stills of the Movie "Snow Fall"

Soon, Ishmel received a breakup letter from the first branch. With the pain of falling in love, he embarked on the battlefield of World War II. The cruelty of the war caused him to lose a arm. At the end of the war, he returned to his hometown to inherit his father's business and became a journalist.

At the trial site suspected of murder, Ishmel once again saw the first branch. At this time, the first branch was a woman, and her husband Miyamoto was accused of murdering the fisherman Karl Hein.

Stills of the Movie "Snow Fall"

In fact, this trial is actually completely out of discrimination and prejudice: the murder itself does not have conclusive evidence. Most of them are the hostile emotions of white people on the island to Japanese residents. The evidence of the arguments makes the situation extremely unfavorable to Miyamoto Tiandao.

However, Ishmel, a reporter, discovered evidence that he could prove that the "love enemy" Miyamoto Tiandao was not guilty. In the balance of emotions and morality, he fell into a difficult choice.

Stills of the Movie "Snow Fall"

The three protagonists in the love story gather again at the intersection of fate again.

The soul of an island faces the court's interrogation with a Japanese suspect: good and evil, love and forgiveness, justice and prejudice, the theme of kindness and indifferent themes are on each unpredictable key and string, Establish a magnificent and sophisticated human symphony.

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Rebate back, fall off the snow without marks

Go to listen to the pure response of the inner heart

How did David Gaterson use the evidence of the eye -like eye to connect the entire case to complete a trial of good and evil, love and forgiveness, justice and prejudice, kindness and indifference?

The narrative of "Snow Family Fir Tree" is as dense as heavy snow, and the surface of the story is a three -day trial of a suspense case.

Taking the trial as the main line, the author uses a ring -shaped narrative similar to the Fox novel, which is different from the straight -line narrative. From the free switching of the multi -person limited perspective, interweaving and returning, gradually synthesize the small in the readers' minds The mini society on the island San Peizuo and the difficult situation and choice of the three heroes in the trend of history and fate.

Stills of the Movie "Snow Fall"

Within the framework of the trial story, the memories and telling of the characters have gradually appeared in many other stories, just like Van Gogh's "Dad Tang Ji", his father is the appearance of the painting. Behind his father, there are many paintings. "Painting in China".

The story behind the trial is not only the emotional story of Ishmel, Chu Zhi, and Tiandao's staggered and rapidly rotating, but also a life story of Japanese residents who came to the island and slowly rooted. The story of the Miyamoto family and the deceased's family about the land of land ... They are interspersed in the main line of trial, and with the perspective of different characters, they emerge one by one, forming a novel author with literary ambitions and ten years of patient painting. Guangshen's fine huge islands Ukiyo -Shi.

The third person's limited perspective also allowed the author to retreat from the work.

In a story about others, he is a bystander. Calm and objective, never make sound interference narrative. Readers listen to the pure response of their hearts in the snow.

Unexpected unification of the universe all things

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Except for people's hearts

The theme of "Snow Family" is related to war and trauma, ethnicity and prejudice, love and justice, and eventually return to writing to the hearts of the human heart.

The novel finally ended in this sentence: "The unexpectedly unified the universe, except for people's hearts."

The war of unexpected advent caused Ishmel to lose her arm and loses their lover; let some people on the island lose their minds and lose their basic judgments; it also caused the Japanese people to lose their dignity, lose their spoken speaking, and speak. courage.

Even during the trial of the heavenly way, the Japanese descent on the island could only sit in the last row of courts.

Stills of the Movie "Snow Fall"

However, despite the coincidence and accident, the noble justice and morality in the hearts will still shine at the intersection of destiny.

Miyamoto Tiandao, who was sitting on the defendant, went to the European battlefield as American citizens after the outbreak of the war. It is still regarded as "damn Japanese devil".

However, the night when the victim Karl Hailin had an unexpected night, he rescued Karl, who was drifting on the sea, and reached a settlement of the family's grievances -he finally bought the strawberry land of Carl's family. The immigrants who can only be a farmer finally have land that can take root in the United States.

Stills of the Movie "Snow Fall"

And Ishmel, who had lost his arms and lover because of the war, was witnessed his father who was an objective voice of Japanese residents and was unreasonable by residents on the island.

However, when he verified the evidence of Miyamoto Tiandao, after struggling, he made the same choice as his father -hand over the evidence to the Chu Zhi family.

At this moment, he let go of his pain and narrowness, forgive the betrayal of the first love for his first love, and to relieve himself under the shadow of war.

Stills of the Movie "Snow Fall"

On the way to Ishmel's first branch, he had witnessed the fir forest that witnessed their first love.

The branches of the fir tree are white snow, and the sky outside the branches and leaves is clear, and the cold stars are shining.

At this moment, he suddenly realized the fact that he had escaped but understood: "This world is silent, cold, naked, and this is the terrible beauty of it."

In the face of accidents and fate, human beings always seem so weak and helpless, but "the universal universe is all the hearts of the universe, except for people's hearts."

This sentence may include the author's most important expression intention: the world is disorderly, the individual is small, and the accidental character determines the fate of fate. Because of this, in the face of this silent, cold, naked world, the glory of the human heart is particularly beautiful.

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