Chapter 253: Polarized Response
"Secretary Lin, what does your wife think? Why did you write such a tragic story?
Couldn't Jiang Shugen have lived a better life? Why did he die? Couldn't he have left a relative behind?
He longed to go home, but when he got back, he found that everyone in his family had died, and even his niece who he had raised with great effort had died. He had no hope in life, so how could he live, wuwu..."
Seeing that she started crying again, Lin Yuzhu sighed and told Zhao Yanshu the story about trafficking that she had told him.
"My wife got the inspiration from reading this story. Someone once advised him to give the protagonist a good ending, but my wife said that when the character Jiang Shugen appeared, the ending was predetermined. I don't quite understand what he meant, but I think that in his heart Jiang Shugen has a soul and he can't change it."
After hearing what she said, her colleagues fell silent.
Sister Wang who was standing by also sighed after hearing this. She had just read the book as well, and although she didn't cry as badly as everyone else, her eyes were also slightly red at this moment.
"Hey, Xiaolin is right. I can probably understand what your lover means. He is the author and he must have put a lot of effort into creating the characters.
I just thought about it. If the protagonist was given a good ending, I would be happy, but it would not be a memorable one.
Now, I have a lot of regrets and emotions in my heart. Maybe this is what your lover wants to express. "
Lin Yuzhu nodded. She didn’t expect Sister Wang to say that. It seemed that she had read it carefully.
The other people in the office also seemed to be deep in thought after hearing this, or perhaps they were still immersed in the plot, and no one spoke until the end of the get off work day.
Lin Yuzhu didn't think much about it when she saw this. She knew how powerful the book was. Even she took several days to recover after reading it.
So I packed up and planned to go home.
When she was leaving, she met Sun Yulian who was also going out. She saw that her eyes and nose were also red, and she glared at her when she passed by her.
Seeing this, Lin Yuzhu gave her a speechless look and followed her away.
After that day, discussions about the book "Going Home" gradually appeared in newspapers.
Readers' reactions are polarized. Those who like it think that the book is well written. Although the protagonist is miserable, it reflects many social realities and can't help but make people think and reflect a lot after reading it.
People who don't like it think that its content is too tragic, as if it is suffering for the sake of suffering. It seems that no matter how hard the protagonist tries, there is no good ending, and the thinking is too negative.
The author was even mentioned vaguely, saying that he had dark thoughts and could only write such a story.
Of course, there are also many people who find fault with the book, still dwelling on the previous topic, saying that he deliberately wrote about suffering, and that the book sold so well abroad because it deliberately belittled their country.
In short, this book aroused unprecedented discussion. In less than a week, the publishing house received hundreds of letters from readers.
Of course, Zhao Yanshu couldn't read all of them, so he asked the editors to take a rough look and select some letters that actually discussed the content with him and show them to him. If he had any thoughts after reading them, he would write back.
Of course, in addition to discussing the content, there were also people asking him for help.
For example, during this period he received a letter from a junior high school student. In the letter, he said that he accidentally found out that he was not his parents' biological child, but was bought by them, and he didn't know what to do.
His adoptive parents treated him very well and sold all they had to send him to school. But after reading Zhao Yanyu's book, he wondered if his biological parents were also looking for him, so he hesitated as to whether or not to report to the police.
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