Disciplines/Subjects: Chinese Language Arts
Key Themes: Fiction, Creative writing, Exaggeration, Alienation, Metaphor
From a corner of the world, observing people and society.
Art originates from life, higher than life. "Novelists from ancient and modern times, both domestic and foreign, reflect social reality through their writing, describe it with warmth, criticize it sharply, or depict human nature through unique artistic techniques. They transport readers to a whole new world and showcase different life experiences. This power is not based on argumentation or facts, but on the illusion that life is happening on paper, which is the life of their characters.
Through the intensive reading of each unit's representative novel and relevant supplementary materials, learners can understand the expression techniques and techniques of various novels, choose one of the following three topics, imitate and learn from its artistic techniques, understand the basic methods of novel creation, create a mini-novel, and present their attitudes and reflections on certain social phenomena, trends of thought or popular culture.
A. What phenomena in real society do you want to criticize? Please shape a typical character based on this, using exaggeration, contrast, and satire techniques, designing necessary plot conflicts, showcasing their core characteristics, and writing their story and your stance
B. The alienation of human beings "reflects the alienation of the body and the misalignment of thoughts, as well as the dilemma of human survival. Based on your observation, in real life, which person/individuals have you seen facing survival difficulties? Please write a story about 'human alienation transformation' through passive explicit transformation, showcasing their struggles and difficulties, as well as the inner world of the characters.
C. The metaphorical technique helps us better understand the connections or behaviors between specific things. By observing and experiencing life (historical events, small things that reflect truth in life, social hotspots), you can choose a theme and use metaphorical techniques to create a group story through the setting of images, scenes, plots, and details. This will reveal the essence of something or the truth of life, or subtly express your views and positions on a sensitive event.
Core Competency:
Creativity: Confirm the artistic techniques of the novel, choose the artistic techniques to be used from exaggeration, distortion, and metaphor, and form a reasonable writing creativity
Connection: Drawing from social life to clarify the theme of the novel and the author's stance
Present: Complete the story by shaping character scenes, designing contradictory plots, dialogues, and descriptions
Expressing: Show language expression ability and artistic appeal
Content Knowledge:
Literary and artistic expression techniques: exaggeration, alienation and deformation, metaphor
Basic methods of novel creation: character setting, character shaping, plot structure, conflict development and escalation, person and perspective, beginning and ending, and title setting