About The Narrating Character Of Hawthom Tree Forever

Hawthorn Tree Forever is an outstanding work which is deeply concerned by the novelists.As a charming love tragedy,it is considered the purest love up till now. The story happened in about 1975 when people were poor but filled with dreams. Being based on the facts,this novel evokes resounding response of the readers.The brief plots are as followed:Jingqiu,a urban girl,was put to great inconvenience because she was the latter generation of a landowner.As a result,she was very self-abased.During the time that she lived in the countryside,she got to know Laosan whose father was a commander. Laosan fell in love with Jingqiu,but she always tried to hide from him at first with the fear of being deceived.As a handsome and talented young man,Laosan thought highly of love,he made his efforts to satisfy Jingqiu.From Jingqiu graduated to her getting a job till she became a regular worker,Laosan was in the company of her. However,by the time all Jingqiu's dreams came true,Laosan died of Leukemia.Seen from the other aspect,this novel is worthy of studying and appreciating on its achievement and artistic level.By now,no articles that study this novel from the subject of narrating are found.So this article aims at expressing its narrating techniques and features and reveal its unique qualities on its composing and artistic style by developing its characterization.What is more,by the comments on Hawthorn Tree Forever,the author wishes to arouse more attention to this novel.Generally,this article is divided into three sections:The first section analyses the narrating aspects,the style and the way of narrating to this novel.Emmy is affected by the foreign writers with Chinese origin, especially the female ones.But she doesn't merely write after their style,instead,she evolves a style of her own by absorbing their quintessence and creating her own works,which can be seen on the portraying of the image and the events and its narrating style.Compared to Emmy's other works,her narrating preference and skills are shown.These preferences and skills come from not only the personal habit and interests,but also the use of narrating ways that are helpful to the writing.After all,what is the most important and decisive is the overall structures and the whole effect.For this,Emmy created the novel with a strong-subjectivity omnipotent view. At the same time,she draws the narrator away from the story,so that she can describe the events and its background information,by this way,she is able to carry out her wide and all-around writing,so as to show the whole situation and the emotion.Meanwhile,the inward-looking view is fit for a recollection novel.Under an all-around view,the sense of subject that infiltrated into the first view make the story move the readers with more conviction.And it is more effective than the single expressing way with more appeal.In the second section,the emotion experience and the marks of time in the narrating are analyzed.As a recollection novel,Hawthorn Tree Forever makes use of experiencing narrating.That is to say,the emotion experience of the characters comes from the author's own experience.In this novel,by telling the past,the author expressed her sigh for Laosan-Sun Jianxin,and pours out the yearning of Emmy and Jingqiu for pure love.In this recollection,there is embarrassment,unreasoning passion and public experience.This novel expressed Jingqiu's childlike,pure and romantic experience from the aspect of a woman's personal experience,which makes this novel successful.In addition to this,there are two consciousnesses in this novel,they attract each other and repel each other,which makes the narrator appears as little as possible,in the end disappear.By this way,it is more lifelike.With the direction of the dialogue and the mutual interaction,the comparison and the interaction between the two characters from the drama tension of this novel.In the third part,the author tries to associate the narrating with the portraying of the characters.This shows us that events are indispensable to the characters and their personalities.The plots and characters are portrayed according to the character's experience.Jingqiu is a guiding clue of the story.Emmy builds different personalities by describing Jingqiu's experience,which can be carried out currently without coming into conflict.In this article,actions,information and features of different characters are mixed together and become a clue of characters.Apart from this,the characterization is not persistent since Jingqiu's experience is changeable. The readers can feel the personalities of the characters from Jingqiu's feeling and words.What makes it more important is,with too much subjective idea and no cases, Emmy successfully portrayed different characters and makes them acceptable by choosing this special narrating way.Emmy chooses different views and ways of description,which generates distinctive characters with particular personality of their own and achieves wonderful effects.