Chapter 5 Chapter 4 What kind of person do you want to be?

Chapter 4 What kind of person do you want to be? 1 I often receive social survey postcards from junior high school students or high school freshman students.Among the many birth questions, there is often this one: what did you want to be when you were a child? When I read these postcards, four or five boys and girls would gather their heads together in the classroom after school to discuss extracurricular group activities before my eyes.I imagined that after they completed the social survey questionnaire, they either chatted, or continued to think about something in their hearts without making a sound.

For example, if I say that I have always wanted to be the person I am now, some of them will probably think: There are still such self-satisfied types among adults.Or if I say, I haven't been able to become the person I always wanted to be when I was a child, they will think: How pitiful or something. Perhaps, the boys and girls had already imagined "the result will be like this" before reading the survey results.It is not a good thing to take a questionnaire without thinking about how the questions you ask will be answered.In fact, it is basically not a good thing not to consider the answer after asking the question until receiving the answer.

After doing a lot of consideration on this matter, I decided not to answer the social survey questionnaire.However, unconsciously, I conceived the article in my mind as follows. When I was young, every time I thought about this question, I probably thought about "what kind of person I want to be" with different connotations.Because I was a child in the war, the children I played with seemed to have the desire to become fighter pilots.However, in fact, this is just something that stays on the surface of my heart, and deep down I am saying no.I don't think I have the flexible movement ability necessary to be a pilot, the ability to judge the situation quickly in a narrow control seat, and the ability to fight heroically with enemy planes after comprehensive calculation of data.The way my mind works probably isn't of this type, I think.

In fact, in my opinion, the question of "what kind of person do you want to be" does not refer to what kind of job you want to do, but refers to what kind of mind you want to have and what kind of attitude towards life you want to be.At that time, I had a specific person in my heart.I want to wait until I grow up, not start now.I just want to be like him.A man of courage. In a composition essay titled "Someone You Respect", I wrote about that person.Because the Chinese teacher read my composition in the class, no one in the class did not laugh.Even the girls who developed to the senior grades came to the corridor in front of our classroom, stood there pointing at me and laughing, because of this, I tore up the composition after it was sent out, and since then The matter was never mentioned again.But even so, I have never forgotten about that person. Even today, the scene of being moved at that time is still vivid in my mind.I can't remember that person's name clearly—it seems to be surnamed Kouno—if I recall it through related events, according to the name at the time, it probably happened before the third grade of the national school.

2 Kouno is a very old-looking man.He was in elementary school, and in today's parlance, he was a school clerk.Back then we called him the handyman.In English, it is pepper and salt.His hair was cut short and short, his hair was white and black, and his untrimmed beard was messy on his cheeks and chin, which was very eye-catching.A small man, wearing a black stand-up collar uniform, always sweeping the corners of the campus with a broom.His image even scares our junior students, and the teachers don't pay much attention to his greetings.This is the impression he left on me. After I gradually became familiar with the school, I stopped paying attention to him.

At this moment, the "Mountain Dog Incident" occurred. The mountain dog originally referred to the Japanese wolf, a small Japanese wolf that died out a long time ago.During the war, food dwindled and fewer families could afford dogs.A small number of dogs ran on the slopes surrounding the small village, and gradually the wildness returned to them.The mountain dogs that people said at that time were these dogs, and the mountain dogs that were not originally intended reappeared in the village.But adults and children in the village are very afraid of this wild mountain dog. One day, the largest of the mountain dogs ran into the campus during the lunch break and chased the students in circles. Fortunately, no one was bitten by it.However, the crying and screaming of the girls had already shaken the entire school.Finally, we all ran into the classroom to take refuge.The mountain dog still runs around the deserted campus.We kept staring at the dog in the classroom, and some teachers even said that the mountain dog might have rabies.

At that moment, three girls from the advanced department who were hiding in the hut next to the drinking pool fled to the school building, but they were discovered by the mountain dog.Everyone in the school building was so nervous that they screamed.At that time, there were no middle schools or girls' schools in the village, and advanced subjects were what we called students who stayed after graduating from national schools to continue their studies. At this time, Kouno held the bamboo broom tightly, and rushed towards the mountain dog like a black dog, and immediately fought with the mountain dog that was howling and about to bite the female student.Finally, the mountain dog was repulsed and retreated to the back of the mountain along the path between the school buildings.The teachers and students were still afraid of retaliation, and kept hiding in the classroom, not daring to come out. Kouno moved a little away from the three girls who were squatting and crying, and stood on the campus with his head down.

That's the kind of person I want to be.I look forward to it.I once learned about trees and wanted to work in a forest cooperative in the future. This ideal also includes protecting female students from being harmed by mountain dogs in the forest. 3 Now my hair is also gray, and it is also less black and more white, probably ten years older than Kouno back then.Now that I think about it, when I was a kid, and really anytime, I wanted to be this or that.I think no matter who you are, you will have a few idols engraved in your heart.I reviewed my life so far, and found that no matter who I wanted to be, I was not exactly like that person in the end; but at the same time, I also found that I still resembled that person bit by bit.

Therefore, it can be said that it is a good thing to have a deep impression of a certain person's behavior and life attitude since childhood, and to have the determination to become that person. Personality is a person.Children should explore people's inner world in a child's way.I feel that when I was a child, I was right about people, and there were indeed some mistakes, which were caused by the influence of adults' sayings such as "that person is not good", and now I erase it together with shame.But on the contrary, don't be swayed by adults' "that person is amazing".If you feel and think about everything with your own heart, generally speaking, it will be right.

4 The following example is an article written by a teenager.After seeing with his own eyes and thinking with his own mind, he made the judgment of "this is a remarkable person" In 1923, the 12th year of Taisho, the Great Kanto Earthquake occurred in Japan.The composition was written by a fourth-grade elementary school student who experienced the earthquake in Tokyo at that time. The earthquake and fire this time were most severe in the Fukagawa and Honjo areas.The principal of Sarue Elementary School in Fukagawa said on the day of the earthquake that the school is a reinforced concrete building and should be safe.Therefore, let a large number of nearby residents come in for refuge.Even the playground and other places that are usually used on rainy days are full of refugees and luggage.But after the earthquake, the fire rushed towards the refugees fiercely. "Oops! If so many people don't evacuate immediately..." After the principal finished speaking, he immediately evacuated the asylum seekers together with other teachers. After that, he handed "Yu Makage" to the vice principal, and asked him to evacuate together with other teachers...

At this point, I will temporarily stop the quotation and talk about the points that need to be paid attention to when writing the article.Have you all read the books in the library or on your dad's shelf?The "notes" in those books are always printed next to the main text or at the end of the article in a smaller font than the main text.What I want to say here is to pay attention to the method of making "notes". First of all, let me talk about a small problem in the citation composition, but it may be a typographical error in the citation article. It is better not to add "," after the "fiercely" in "the fire is fierce, rushing towards the refugees". "Gomakage" is a photo of the Emperor and Empress that every school had until the defeat.When I was a child, I heard rumors that were both horrifying and deeply unreasonable.It is said that a certain school was burned because of a fire, and the principal committed suicide knowing that the responsibility was heavy. Secondly, talk about the method of continuation of the article.At the place where the quotation was interrupted above, that is, after "...let him take refuge with other teachers" and before the turning point "But", it would be better to put a full stop first, and then use another sentence to continue the following.That is... Afterwards, "Yu Maying" was handed over to the vice principal, and he was asked to evacuate with other teachers.But... because the sentence after "but" is also relatively long.The boy who wrote this article must have been deeply moved when he heard about the deeds of the principal of Sarue Elementary School, so he faithfully wrote the atmosphere and inner feelings he felt at that time.Following the place where it was disconnected above, the boy continued to write: He probably felt that he had no time to escape anyway, so he was already mentally prepared to die. Of course, this sentence is fine as it is, but if it were me, I would write it longer.Replace the period after "prepare" with a comma.Next he wrote: So when people found him later, they saw him sitting on the playground in an orderly manner, holding the key in his hand, with his arms crossed on his chest, and he was dead.Instead of letting go of everyone and running for their lives, they evacuated the asylum seekers.With no time to escape from a dangerous situation, a person faces a tragic death with dignity.This is really a beautiful story. The "tragic death" here was originally pronounced sansi, but now most people pronounce it zanzi.Although this is the case, when it is used for "tragic death", the pronunciation of sansi is correct.Please also remember this small place - it means to die cruelly. The young man wrote down the posture of the principal when he died, the things he held in his hand, the shape of his arms, etc. in such detail and clearly, precisely because when he listened to the story, he heard it in his mind as if he had witnessed it with his own eyes. A picture is formed.He recalled this picture and wrote what was the most real and left the deepest impression on his heart.In addition, the boy also revealed the significance of the principal's words and deeds in everyone's actions on the day when the earthquake and fire occurred concurrently: "This is really a beautiful story", expressing his own feelings. Opinion. The boy also wrote a longer record called "Seventy Years After the Great Kanto Earthquake".It is now 2000 AD, and the Great Kanto Earthquake happened 77 years ago.That teenager later grew up to be a great scholar in the history of political thought.I have worked with researchers who have studied under this great scholar named Masao Maruyama many times in universities in the United States, and their memories of this great scholar also include the face of this young man, which makes me feel Deep in their hearts, they have an unchanging respect and love for Mr. Maruyama.