In narratives, people and things are inseparable. The key is to see what the title requires. When writing about things, the people in the article must serve people; when writing about people, the people in the article must serve people. To write a narrative that focuses on people is to express one or more qualities of the characters through one or several things. When writing about people, the narrative does not need to be complete; when describing events, the narrative needs to be complete, and it must run through the entire article.
Methods/Steps
1. Write about people through one thing
Writing about people through one thing usually expresses a quality or quality of the character. An aspect of character. In order to portray the characters, the necessary descriptions of appearance, language, movements, psychology and other aspects of the characters must be made. However, from the perspective of writing about people based on events, it is best to choose an event that best reflects a certain characteristic of the person and write about it well.
When writing about things, choose typical examples. The so-called typical is something that can reflect the central idea, something that can express the character's good thoughts, good qualities, and beautiful emotions. For primary school students, when choosing typical examples, we should focus on small things and choose those small things that best reflect the profound meaning. On the surface, such things may seem like ordinary trivial matters, but they contain profound meanings. This is what we often call "seeing the big from the small".
2. Writing about a person through several things
There are two situations: so using several things to express a quality of a person; second, using several things to express a certain quality Various qualities of an individual.
Note: Use several things to write about a person. These things can be complete. The author must clearly explain the time, place, characters, and events (cause, process, and result) when the things happened. It can also be incomplete and only focus on certain points. More often than not, in an article, some things should be written in detail; some things should be written briefly; some things should be written more completely, and some things should be written more simply.
When writing about people through several things, it is also necessary to describe the characters' appearance, actions, language, and psychology as necessary.
3. Learn to describe characters
When writing about people, you must be able to describe the appearance, language, movements, and psychological activities that best express the characters’ thoughts, feelings, and personality traits during the narrative process. To describe in other aspects, that is, to learn to portray characters.
(1) Appearance description
Also called portrait description, it is a description of the character’s appearance, expression, clothing, posture, tone, and physical characteristics. A way to reveal a character's personality. There is a close connection between the character's appearance and the character's inner world. Specifically: through appearance description, the character's image is made fuller and can leave a deep impression on readers; through appearance description, the character's identity is revealed; through appearance description, the character's inner world is shown. The inner world of a specific occasion; expressing the character's personality, mental outlook and ideological quality through appearance description.
In short, the description of appearance should be closely coordinated with the expression of character characteristics and the highlighting of the central idea of ??the article. The description of the appearance should be vivid, and avoid facial expressions. We are opposed to the writing method of partial priority, from head to toe, and the same appearance for thousands of people.
(2) Language description
Language description includes dialogue and monologue.
Dialogue is a conversation between two or several people; monologue is a character talking to himself. Language is the direct expression of the character's inner world and plays an important role in expressing the character's thoughts and personality. Language with individual characteristics can play the role of "hearing the words and seeing the people". When describing language, we should pay attention to the following two points: first, the language of the characters in the article must be carefully selected, and the language that can express the personality characteristics of the characters and the central idea best should be included in the article; second, good language description must be It is in line with the situation at that time and the character's personality, identity, gender, age and cultural accomplishment.
There are four forms of dialogue description: what is said is written at the end, and quotation marks are used after the speaker; what is said is written first, and the speaker is written after, using quotation marks and periods; one or more quotes before and after Use commas in the middle to explain who said it; only write the character's language, not the speaker. These four forms should be flexible according to actual needs and avoid rigid writing.
(3) Action description
Action description is a method to express the character's thoughts and personality through the character's actions and movements. A person's behavior and actions are often the truest expression of his thoughts, feelings, and personality traits. To see a person, you should not only listen to what he says, but also how he acts. As the saying goes, "listen to his words and watch his actions." Therefore, action description is to directly portray the character's image, show the character's mental outlook, and make the character "live" "an important means. So, how to describe the characters’ actions
First of all, we must choose the key actions to write. When a person does something, there are many actions. But it is impossible and unnecessary for them to write out all these actions one by one. This requires choosing those key and most meaningful actions to write. Secondly, write accurately. The same action can be expressed by many verbs, but only those verbs that are distinctive and best reflect the character's temperament can make a person "alive". A writer once said that the most difficult thing is not to write actions, but to write distinctive actions and to write people from the actions.
4. Psychological description
The inner activities of psychological characters are silent language.
The inner world of a character refers to the complex emotions of joy, sorrow, joy, sadness, hesitation, jealousy, yearning and other complex emotions in the character's heart. In articles about people, properly describing the character's psychology can more effectively portray the character and highlight the central idea. The requirements for psychological description are: it must be true and well-founded; the psychological changes of the characters must be natural and reasonable; the psychological description must serve the central idea of ??the article; when describing the psychological activities of the characters, it must be objective and cautious, and cannot be based on one's own thoughts. , meaning to save people.
When primary school students compose, most of them use the first person ("I" or "we"). If you use this kind of person to write, you cannot use the form of "he thinks" to write about the character's psychological activities, because "I" "It's impossible to get into someone else's head and look. At this time, you can change the way - work hard on describing the characters' language, expression, and actions. This may be more reasonable and make people feel real and credible.
In addition to using "I think" in psychological description, the following methods can also be used.
(1) Ask questions and introduce what you want.
(2) Use assumptions to reveal psychological activities.
(3) There is "thinking" between the lines.
(4) Express what is on your mind directly.