Big fish and small fish immigrant liar

Read Calvino's collection of short stories, starting with Big Fish.

"Big Fish, Small Fish" is not long, about four or five thousand words, just telling a very simple story. But it is such a simple story that makes people feel warm and spread in their hearts after reading it; It is also like the fragrance floating from all directions, and the whole body and mind are dense and have inexhaustible comfort.

A father and son are playing their own games in the bay. My father's hobby is mussels. He picks mussels in the rocks, and sometimes he eats mussels just picked. "He sucks wet and sour shellfish, just like from a spoon." But it is crabs, octopus, jellyfish and other kinds of fish that attract his son Ze Filino's attention.

In the eyes of others, the young man Zefilino is just a child, a careful and thorough child. For Zeferino, the sea is beautiful and clear. He is so good at hunting in water that few other boys can catch up with him.

While fishing in the water, Ze Filino found a woman crying on the edge of the reef. Zeferino doesn't know how to speak, and he can't even comfort people, but watching a young lady cry is very worrying for him. Therefore, he has nothing to say; Lend her your mask to go swimming; And guide her to touch the shiny scales of the wolf bass she hunted. He wants to distract her and make her happy. When he saw that her interest in wolf bass began to spread gradually, he jumped into the water with confidence and prepared to hunt another one for her.

Women cry because they are lovelorn. In any case, she can't solve the sadness of lovelorn love, and she always feels that there are endless tears in her eyes. However, when she faced the wolf habitat, she temporarily put aside her sadness. Because she found that there was no fish more unfortunate than this wolf bass.

Facing this wolf bass, she is almost forgetful. "She touched its round mouth, gills and fishtail with her fingers; Only then did I see thousands of small holes in its beautiful silver figure. The water fleas and micro parasites on the wolf have been on it for a long time, and they are still eating the meat on it to open the way for themselves. " . She also found that "there is a thin and deep wound between the fins, which is older than the hole pierced by the harpoon." It should be that seagulls pecked a hole in the fish's back with great strength. What makes people wonder is why that bite didn't kill it. Who knows how long that little shadow has been burdened with this pain. "

Ze Felino always wants to see if a woman "stops crying" before she goes fishing. If she doesn't stop crying, "what can comfort her?" Fortunately, women are paying attention to the wolf bass.

Zeferino kept pouring water out of the water. He showed the rare results to women and explained the scene to them, and he was so excited that he was tongue-tied. "He hopes that women" can finally participate in his joy. "

The woman looked at the fish that Zeferino hunted back and thought: The small fish was eaten by the big fish, and the big fish endured all kinds of injuries and was finally destroyed by the harpoon. This is the life of the whole ocean.

Ze Felino keeps making new achievements. Women keep finding "harpoon wounds" on those fish, as well as "bite marks bitten by water fleas, spots of an unknown parasite, or hooks stuck in the throat for a long time." She thought, "The bay discovered by the water gang, where all kinds of fish meet, may be an animal shelter sentenced to long-term dying state, a hospital for marine infectious diseases, and an arena for desperate duel."

Finally, Zeferino hunted an octopus. The woman also carefully observed the octopus. "Look at its slippery body, mouth with sucker, and its reddish, almost liquid eyes." This octopus is "the only thing that makes her feel neither bruised nor painful." It "evokes people's thinking about health and life."

The woman "is touching the octopus, and her fingers imitate the twitching movements made by the octopus, getting closer and closer to it, almost touching it." At this time, the octopus's tentacles "trembled in the wind, like a whip, and suddenly tried their best" to grab the woman's arm, and at the same time extended the other tentacles to her throat. The woman let out a tearless cry and then fainted.

When the woman woke up, the octopus had been cut into pieces. It was Ze Felino's father who saved her.

Then, several times, Zeferino thought she was going to cry again. She "didn't shed a tear." At this point, the woman has come out of the sad shadow of lovelorn.

Zeferino's kindness warms a woman's heart; The woman's own kindness caused her to pay attention to the pain of wolves, bass and other fish. When the healthy and overbearing octopus appeared in front of her, her inner desire for health and life was finally awakened. Especially when Zeferino's father rescued her from the evil tentacles of octopus, she completely got rid of the sadness of lovelorn.

I think, "Big Fish, Small Fish" probably wants to tell us that kindness can save people and save themselves.