Author: Anthony Browne
Translation: Ajia
Publishing: Beijing United Publishing Company
Time: June 2017
Pricing: 45.8 yuan
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Colorful knit vests, green striped trousers, and the familiar little orangutan Willie are back. Someone may have read several stories of Willie. Under the creator of his singer Anthony Brown, Willie is a small, slightly hunched, sensitive and timid person, and a little bit socialized. Fortunately, it has boundless fantasy, always enriching its inner world with the imaginary world, eager to become free and powerful one day. This time, what happened to it?
The story has not yet begun, it makes people feel that this situation is extraordinary. Why do you think so? Because the entire page after the cover is bright red. Red is a full, intense color, sometimes exhilarating, full of joy, sometimes disturbing and confusing, especially the big red that has no patterns, stay in such an environment, everyone wants Leave quickly.
With the speculation of red, the beginning of the story is particularly dull. On a sunny and awkward day, Willie went to the park with a small blanket. It might want to sit on the grass, smell the flowers, look at the small insects... It was such a simple wish, but it was stirred up by a cloud. Willie didn't want to see this cloud, he began to hide, began to flee quickly, and finally fled home, shut himself up, and accumulated in his heart, finally burst into thunder.
However, for a small reader with a keen eye and a delicate mind, you should realize that the cloud on the surface is actually a symbol. What it specifically represents, the author does not give a clear answer, but we can often see similar descriptions in some stories: when someone hears a bad news, or is affected by bad emotions, there will be a surge in the heart. Mission cloud. Therefore, this seemingly harmless cloud, no matter what it stands for, is definitely not a good thing.
Finally, after Willie was "caught" at home by the cloud, it had to turn to the authority of his heart - the police for help, and the result was ridiculed by the other party. When you can't feel empathy, you really can't understand each other. How to do it? Willie was helpless, it pulled the curtains and pondered, and in the process, the clouds were isolated and temporarily disappeared. But escaping is obviously useless. In the gap that Willie escaped, the clouds have become bigger, covering the entire sky and becoming dark clouds. Willie realized that there was no alternative to facing his own fears.
Next, a close-up Face of Willie appears on the page. In order to express Willy's determination and enhance the dramatic effect, the author imitates the self-portrait of the Mexican painter Frida, including the thick eyebrows and the eagle that are connected in front of the forehead. Bright flowers in the Eyes and background. This is both an interesting borrowing and a tribute to the female painter who fought against fate. Later, Willie appeared to be the goddess of freedom under Delacroix's pen, screaming at the sky, and declaring war on the inner bad feelings.
At this time, the cloud is not the little cloud that appeared at the beginning of the story. It is reasonable to say that it should become extremely powerful and will not be shocked by Willie’s shouts. But the wonderful thing is that when Willy has the courage to face it, the cloud is no longer threatening, it turns into a pleasant and pleasant rain.
Willie danced in the rain with a street lamp, and this scene completely borrowed the poster of "Rain in the Rain". If we look at the lyrics of "The Rain in the Rain", we can better understand the feelings of Willy's victory over his inner anxiety.
Many Anthony Brown's fans know that his style is deeply influenced by Surrealism and is clearly reflected in his work. When surrealist painters portray the real world, they often add elements such as subconsciousness, dreams, and illusions. They also create an inner world while recording the world in front of them.
For example, surrealist master Renee Magritte likes to add specific things as symbols in his paintings. He has a famous painting, "This is not a pipe." There is a realistic pipe on the painting, but there is a line of annotations below. "This is not a pipe." This sentence clearly tells you that what you see is not what you think. As for how everyone understands, it is another complicated matter.
In Willie and a Cloud, the cloud is a symbol. In addition, the extension, the shadows, walls, and windows are used as hints, and the frequency of appearance in surrealist paintings is also high, and it also appears frequently in Anthony Brown's works, including this book. We can simply understand these specific things as the projection of the subconscious to the real world, such as the open window as the release channel of the inner world.
Child psychology is a very important field in the whole psychology. With the rapid development of society, children's depression and anxiety have gradually become a problem that cannot be ignored in modern society. Children, like adults, have small emotions and small problems of one kind or another, but their thinking is still not perfect. When these negative emotions appear, they often don’t realize it. If adults turn a blind eye, these small things may develop into big events. In the end, it even became a disease that is difficult to cure. Anthony Brown may just want to pass such a story and let everyone realize that the world of children is not all colorful, and it is not all carefree. I hope that children can understand these by reading this story and learn to face these negative emotions and overcome them.
Of course, it is really difficult to treat a picture book as a cure for medicine, but it is still a sigh of the happiness of the children. They can access a large number of excellent picture books from an early age. Through observation and reading over and over again, they can learn a lot from the pictures. thing. The author of Anthony Brown, who is involved in graphic writing, has no need to cooperate with others. The degree of freedom in the creative process will be great. His wisdom, emotional changes, whim, and game psychology are hidden in the works. This is also his communication with readers. a pleasure. And like many of his works, "Willie and a Cloud" are also suitable for reading many times, each time can have different concerns, for example, we can find out how many characters come from other books. The author deliberately draws the wrong contradiction, more surrealistic painting elements... On a certain page, the reader and the author will smile through time and space. Isn't this a hard-to-buy reading experience?
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