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In the article titled To some I have talked with by the Fire<\/em> by Wu Mingyi, a Taiwanese novelist, he stated that the idea of his novel The Man With the Compound Eyes<\/em> was first inspired by one piece of news talking about the Great Pacific Trash Vortex. Later on, his imagination about this huge Trash Vortex carrying all people\u2019s garbage would appear in his mind whether he was out in the wild or by the sea or walking through those small towns. With time goes on, Wu started to mention this event in his lectures and speeches. Then there was a young man appearing in Wu\u2019s imagined island, and he named the boy Ateli\u2019e. Eventually, the book \u201cwas well on the way to being born.\u201d Different from Wu\u2019s other fictions arose from his previous memory, the writer did not presuppose any of the characters in The Man With the Compound Eyes which indicates none of the events in the book purely belongs to the writer\u2019s memory. Therefore, it took Wu a long time to narrate the entire story. As he said, \u201cDuring the writing process I would finish a section and the story would stall.\u201d \u00a0Then, only the appearance of a new character could lead the writer and his story in a new direction. The writer did not intend to write the reality into the book. Instead, he was simply applying the materials in his mind into the storytelling.<\/p>\n In this novel, besides the complex storylines and the switch of the narrative point of views, the most amazing part is Wu Mingyi\u2019s description of the nature. As we all know, Wu Mingyi as a environmental activist, is also one of the representative writers of nature writing in Taiwan. Therefore, the majority of his literary works are aiming to communicate the ecological concepts with the readers. For instance, it is easy to find that Wu Mingyi has put lots of efforts in the study of butterfly while reading this book. As he claimed in the video<\/a>, only when we remember the names of the species can we better protect them. Of course, what the novel carries is not only a simple environmental protection issue. Wu Mingyi considers more about the interdependence between human beings and the relationship between humanity and nature.<\/p>\n At the end of the novel, the lyrics<\/a> of Bob Dylan\u2019s classic song A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall<\/em> is quoted in large part.http:\/\/www.bobdylan.com\/songs\/hard-rains-gonna-fall\/ These lyrics are as poetry as they are full of rich images and surreal symbolism, depicting a doomsday scene. This song was adopted as the unofficial theme song of the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit<\/a> in 2009, hoping to awaken people’s environmental awareness. The lyrics constantly repeat the image of “the rain is coming”, appearing many times in the novel as well, showing a sense of oppression and urgency to life. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “\u4eff\u4f5b\u5728\u4e00\u4e2a\u5c06\u7184\u672a\u5ab3\u7684\u7089\u706b\u524d\uff0c\u4e3a\u90a3\u5c0f\u5c0f\u7684\uff0c\u56f4\u805a\u7684\u542c\u4f17\uff0c\u7f16\u7ec7\u4e00\u4e2a\u6545\u4e8b\u3002\u201c \u2014\u2014\u5434\u660e\u76ca To Some I Have Talked With By the Fire In the article titled To some I have talked with by the Fire by Wu Mingyi, a Taiwanese novelist, he stated that the idea of his novel The Man With the Compound Eyes was first inspired by one piece of news talking about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pair-scribes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Man with the Compound Eyes<\/h4>\n
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\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWU Mingyi, \u201cThe Mysterious Revelations of Nature Writing\u201d<\/h4>\n
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