《Anansi Boys》 actually has a serious and profound core. The core question in the discussion is about how boys grow up, and this question has more or less plagued everybody’s growth process. It is related to a struggle between self-power, how to deal with negativity during growth, and how to get rid of pessimism, sadness,
timid and overcautious, low self-esteem, etc. All of these black struggles that
always hang over my heart from time to time,
《AnansiBoys》 is not cumbersome or gorgeous, but it hits the depths of the soul.
Fat Charlie is not an enviable character. However, in the description of fat Charlie,
more people find themselves as familiar. Like fat Charlie, they are timid and overcautious, inferior, overwhelmed, and they are afraid of others’ attention, failed to accept other people’s ridicule, they are more willing to curling up on a comfortable
sofa to live passively. At a certain moment, they felt that they had just done something inappropriate, and they wanted to make a hole in the ground and go down.
The truth is exactly the same. Most people in life are as ordinary as fat Charlie, so
ordinary that we are too lazy to look at him, and dislike saying hello to him.
In our daily life, countless fat Charlie walks by our side, living a three-point line of
life.
Yes, everyone is looking forward to a radiant and charming self, but unfortunately,
more often, people have to face the conflict between their inner expectations and the external environment, and we accept a fact that is not so pleasant: Oneself is often
ordinary, unattractive, inconspicuous in the crowd.
In our own mind, oneself is the center in the world; however, in front of the world,
individual may be smaller than sand...
If there were no spider classmates, then fat Charlie might repeat the same life for the rest of his life and treat it as a normal life with peace of mind. The arrival of the spider changed everything. In the end, fat Charlie subverted his past self.
It is often the charm of literary works that arouses the resonance of readers through
the projection of the individual’s emotions and destiny and deep depiction.
Neil Gaiman uses spiders as a catalyst to invade fat Charlie’s life, to help fat
Charlie to achieve self-transformation. He used sharp and delicate brushstrokes to portray the inner world of fat Charlie. However, unfortunately, in real life, no one
is so lucky to have a spider that suddenly comes to fulfill this great mission.
Many times, the change of life trajectory is only in one thought. People are never afraid of short-lived failures. People are afraid of being accustomed to mediocrity,
taking mediocre life for granted, and treating themselves as scorned and manipulated by others, Regarding the personable person as out of reach, when an individual gets used to all of this in his mentality, he has become a true loser. Without spiders, we must also create our own spiders by ourselves. Only in this way can we break the shackles of life.
The cognition and positioning of oneself is an extremely important topic in the process of personal growth. Everyone has two selves in their bodies. One is as sensitive and cautious as fat Charlie, who is constantly self-doubt, and the other is as easy as a spider. Behind the ups and downs of 《Anansi Boys》 and the two characters with very different characteristics, fat Charlie and Spider, reveal the preciousness and difficulty of breaking through the shackles of self-denial in the process of personal growth. This is the most important enlightenment 《AnansiBoys》 to every reader.
