Marquez's Narrative Structure

Marquez is an experienced embroiderer. His words pass through pinholes, and the complicated scenes are clearly arranged.

Storytelling is a writer's duty, not a dodge, but the way of storytelling has its own surprises.

Wang Zengqi and Shen Congwen tell stories without stories, only pictures, thousands of pictures, and thousands of interpretations of a picture, all of which are traceless operations. That person and that matter are all in the mountains and rivers, and the mountains and rivers are in people's words. You can't tell how beautiful it is, but you don't remember going out.

Lao She, he tells stories without pictures, only people, and the joys and sorrows of the story are in people's eyebrows, words and thoughts.

Hemingway and Jack London are very interesting. There are no pictures, no characters, only thoughts in their stories. Hemingway's view of infinite life, Jack's view of life and death.

It's too far. I said I would go back to Marquez.

Where's Marquez? He is a journalist above all. His story is full of logic, fascinating logic.

At the beginning of every story, he throws a line to the reader. It is not an era background, nor a grand scene, but a microscopic scene, a small thread close to the characters themselves. Yes, that's how he won the readers. The large visual scene was rejected, leaving a small window eloquence that people can't help but find out.

"Mom asked me to sell the house with her" —— "If I live, I will say it"

"When I live to be ninety years old, I want to find a young virgin and send myself a night full of crazy love" —— Memoirs of a Bitter Prostitute

"On the third day after the rain, they have killed too many crabs at home ..."-The Old Man with Huge Wings

"On the day Santiago Nassar was killed, he got up at 5: 30 in the morning ..." —— "A murder made public in advance"

"Before getting on the bus, she looked back to make sure that no one was following her." -"Serial Kidnapping News"

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Among them, "Living to Tell" is a biography, and "News of Serial Kidnapping" is a documentary literature. Most nonfiction works have a reading threshold. After all, what really happens is either superficial or complicated. Marquez's nonfiction narrative is another new possibility.

I read Alive with great interest. I don't know what attracted me about this scattered and lengthy biographical chronicle, so I studied its narrative structure while watching the news of a serial kidnapping case.

Marquez's narrative is calculated.

The Relationship between Narrative Structure and Character Relationship

In Lian Tie, the abductees and rescuers are described by a main line. The former expounds the victims' experiences in the whole kidnapping process from the perspectives of Maluha, Beatrice and Marina, while the latter presents the causes of the kidnapping case and the official and social responses and responses from a broader perspective of misar.

The two main lines outline the "war" between Pablo escobar and the government. Other details are classified by auxiliary lines and secondary auxiliary lines. When several people experience the same event, the best way is to let them divide their work and restore a more complete story. That's what marquez did.

The details about Diana are her mother Nydia. The fact that her daughter was kidnapped made Nidia heartbroken. At first, she pinned her hopes for the rescue operation on the families of other victims. When she found that there was no hope, she began to take the initiative quickly. She did the best job of putting pressure on the president. Later, gaviria agreed to amend the second law, which has a lot to do with her persistent efforts. In exchange for this amendment, a hostage (Beatrice) was released. In fact, before the law was amended, Nydia had lost her daughter. But she didn't end the battle. As Biya misar felt, she remembered that her daughter died for peace, not because of pain or hatred. In this attitude and spirit, she wrote to Pablo escobar, begging him to release the other two abductees. After being arrested, the latter admitted that she was too painful to reply to her after reading the letter.

Compared with others, Pacho experienced an unconventional kidnapping. The guard is almost "integrated" with him. They went to the theatre, played cards and played chess with him. A guard satisfied his demand for books by stealing them from his grandfather. He also kept a good correspondence with another guardian mother until he was banned. When he was finally released, the guards hugged him goodbye and thanked him for letting them learn a lot. After 244 days of "imprisonment", the reporters saw a "rejuvenated" Pachu. In his cousin's words, "they sent him back as it is."

Orlando Acevedo, as a photographer of the press corps, is the most insignificant one among the abductees. When he had an accident, his wife Liliana was still with their one-and-a-half-year-old son. The 24-year-old wife collapsed every day, but she did not forget to show her son his father in front of the TV during the news broadcast until the kidnapping was over.

Plain news is natural and fair, but "wily" writers know that calm facts are difficult to penetrate the hearts of the people.

So, after in-depth investigation, Marquez told people a story with complete structure and sufficient details: the cause-a large-scale political action (guard Don Pacho confirmed that there is a carefully selected list of journalists and important people, as long as the kidnappers have interests, they will kidnap them); What happened-the kidnapping process of Maluha and Beatrice; Climax-the death of Marina and Diana; Turning point-Pablo meets the priest; End-Maluha is released; Eggs-The Final Fate of Prisoner Pablo.

Of course, how can there be no love in a complete story?

After all, even iron is a news fact, and emotions should be restrained. But the horse's brushwork, a small amount of generation is profound enough. Maluha is married with five children and is with Biya misar. This kind of marriage is doomed to be difficult. In Marquez's words, life has taught them that the happiness of love is not used to make them sit back and relax, but to make them unlucky together. Nevertheless, nothing can stop Biya misar from taking all unimaginable risks to rescue Maruha.

In the news of a serial kidnapping case, there is actually a line called "love" hidden in the narrative structure of several main and auxiliary lines. The genius of a storyteller is that he never gives more and never ignores the most difficult one to give up.