Chapter 291 The Character Creation of Sherlock Holmes!!

To summarize the story of "The Sign of Four" in one sentence, this case tells the story of the greedy officer Sholto, who betrayed his loyalty and wanted to take the treasure for himself, and was in a state of anxiety for many years, which eventually brought disaster to his family.

A box of treasure, four signatures.

After that, this book writes about the test of human nature.

This kind of plot and emotion is easy for readers to understand in modern society, whether it is family affection, friendship or love.

In the face of huge wealth, human greed will be exposed!

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"Great..."

"It's really great."

This "The Sign of Four" is also not long. Li Liyue couldn't help but admire it in her heart while reading it.

"The Sign of Four" and "A Study in Scarlet" have many similarities. The first is the overall structure.

The first half tells the story of solving the case, and the second half tells the stories of many prisoners.

Second, the motive of each murderer can be written as a "tragic" emotion that earns sympathy points. This is the signature style of Lao Zei.

Not to mention the distant past, let's talk about "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" which is popular in Kyushu. The upper and lower demons in this work all have their own tragic stories.

Perhaps because they are not forgiven for their many evil deeds, but the audience can empathize with them.

This empathy is not sympathy, but understanding the character in the work, why such behavior occurs. Once empathy is achieved, the emotions of the characters in the book can be said to be all established.

Compared with "A Study in Scarlet", why "The Sign of Four" can get such praise from Li Liyue is because the story of this work is very attractive. From the moment Mrs. Merry found Holmes, readers gradually understood the whole picture of the matter from an ignorant perspective.

Finally, Lao Zei revealed all the truth.

This kind of pleasure is difficult to bring about in "A Study in Scarlet". "A Study in Scarlet" gives readers the feeling that they are enjoying themselves, and then it ends so suddenly, and they are exhausted!

The readers were very confused.

"Is it over?"

There was too little writing about the case, and Holmes solved it too easily.

But "The Sign of Four" is different. Although it still does not put all the writing on "suspense reasoning", it focuses more on the description of the crime story of "The Sign of Four".

But the wonderful plot still makes the audience ignore this point.

There is a plot, which is the part about chasing the murderer on the Thames River, which makes thousands of readers excited!

"The sense of picture is really too strong!!"

"This is the advantage of Lao Zei, which is a sense of picture that is difficult for suspense writers to write..."

This description made Li Liyue a little speechless. From this aspect alone, she was ashamed.

Lao Zei came from online writing. The most important thing for online writing is the sense of picture. He racked his brains to describe it from all aspects.

But the writing style of physical books is different, and the focus of the writing of suspense reasoning works has never been here.

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When Xiao Xiang Zhengtai turned the last page of "The Sign of Four".

Suddenly he was silent.

This is not because Xiao Xiang thinks that the book "The Sign of Four" is so "magical", but because Lao Zei continues the writing mode and style of "A Study in Scarlet"!

The overall structure has not changed at all, but the plot is much more exciting and the sense of substitution is deeper.

Even Xiao Xiang has to admire that this is a wonderful work.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Xiang feels like he has been slapped in the face, because just a few days ago, Xiao Xiang said in an interview with Yingzhou that such a writing style is difficult to work in mystery works.

But now...

"Am I too narrow-minded?"

"Is it because of this that my work is a little worse?"

Xiao Xiang murmured.

This "narrowness" does not mean that he publicly expressed his dislike for "A Study in Scarlet".

It is a reflection on his own writing style, whether his writing is too narrow.

The story serves the reasoning, or the reasoning serves the story. These two writing modes will present two completely different works, but Xiao Xiang has always insisted on one style and has not tried another.

"The Sign of Four" provides a brand new idea, which makes Xiao Xiang suddenly wake up.

People are like this. When something that contradicts your ideas appears, you will reject it at first, until you realize that this thing may have some truth, and then you will think carefully.

There are many stories, but few reasonings.

There are few stories, but many reasonings.

They are all ideas.

And it is obvious that Lao Zei wants to write not only a thin story in this book, but also a discussion on human nature, and reflects the colonial plunder of Indiana!

The final ending is also meaningful in Xiao Xiang's eyes.

In this book, all those who attempt to own this treasure and wealth either die or are eventually arrested.

And the wealth, when Small found himself about to be caught up by the police and had no way out, scattered the treasures in the Thames, which is about 5 miles long.

The treasure was eventually scattered in the Thames and could not be found.

From another perspective, it presents a truth, that is, greed for ill-gotten gains will eventually bring misfortune to oneself. Even if one obtains ill-gotten gains, one will live in fear and will never have peace for the rest of his life.

If people live in the world without peace and feel guilty, it is really too sad.

"Ah..."

"Wonderful."

Xiao Xiangzhengtai sighed slightly.

Although he still does not think that the two "Sherlock Holmes" books are "masterpieces", Xiao Xiangzhengtai feels from these two books why the author Lao Zei became popular in Kyushu!

The existence of any phenomenon has traces and reasons.

Even if a bad movie becomes popular, everyone should still think independently and explore why such a phenomenon occurs.

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“666666! The Sign of Four is so exciting!”

“Oh my god! Damn, Watson actually got married?”

“Old Thief’s works, be careful, maybe Watson’s wife will die in the future, I am traumatized!”

“The Sign of Four is too hard! It is still the same writing style! No change!”

“Watson will marry Mary soon, alas, it’s a pity that Holmes is addicted to the bottle of cocaine because he has no cases...”

“Holmes is so charming, my God, I have never liked a character in Old Thief’s books so much.”

“The rhythm of The Sign of Four is more lively, I can’t get enough of it! The third part! The third part! It’s still three weeks, right!”

The length of The Sign of Four is also not long. Just three hours after it was released in the morning, the entire novel forum and blog were full of readers’ high praise for The Sign of Four!

Male readers are immersed in the case story of "The Sign of Four", and female readers are also attracted by Watson's love line!

All the doubts about Lao Zei on the Internet before have all turned into discussions about the writing style of "Sherlock Holmes" and the desire to read "The Sign of Four"!

Even the online readers who used to follow Lao Zei's online novels are also very satisfied with the speed at which Lao Zei updates and releases new books!

To ​​say that public opinion on the Internet cannot represent anything, just look at the actual sales volume...

When the first-day sales of "The Sign of Four" were finally presented to everyone in Jiuzhou, there were many people who were shocked and dumbfounded!

Xiazhou local...

20 million copies...

The total sales in Jiuzhou, according to incomplete statistics, exceeded 50 million copies...

"Ni Ma!"

"What kind of horrible sales volume is this? Even "Harry Potter" did not achieve this sales volume, right?"

"Compared to "A Study in Scarlet", the sales volume has tripled or quadrupled?!"

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Seeing this sales volume, people inside and outside the circle are a little breathless!

When will suspense and mystery works have the level and sales of world bestsellers?

Not to mention other people, even authors like Li Liyue who have a positive attitude are extremely envious...

The first-day sales of more than 50 million copies are almost comparable to the total sales of "The Housekeeper" in Jiuzhou after nearly a month of release!

And it is conceivable that in the next few days, the sales of "The Sign of Four" will continue to grow with word of mouth!

"How did the old thief do it?!"

"Too awesome!"

At the home of another well-known suspense author in Xiazhou, his son Sun Xiao couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw the official sales.

Just yesterday, he and his father Sun Xuan finished reading "The Sign of Four" together. After reading it, his father has been locking himself in the study, seemingly getting a lot of inspiration from it.

"Many factors."

Sun Xuan sighed, it would be a lie to say that he was not envious.

"First of all, the popularity brought by the explosion of Harry Potter throughout Kyushu has given this work a very high starting point."

"Secondly, the heated discussions and discussions after the release of the first "A Study in Scarlet" have brought more attention to "Sherlock Holmes."

"Third..."

"This work itself is very outstanding."

"Even if it is not the traditional mystery that many mystery fans expect, the image of Sherlock Holmes is really great."

This is not difficult to understand, but Sun Xiao still asked:

"Dad."

"What is so great about the characterization of Sherlock Holmes?"

Sun Xuan pulled out a chair, sat down, and talked carefully with his son:

"I have been thinking about this question since I finished watching it yesterday. Why is Sherlock Holmes... No, it should be said that all the old thieves... In the works, the characterization and charm of the characters are so attractive. "

"Take Holmes alone, the most attractive thing about this character is not his exquisite reasoning of deduction, but his inner spirit and innate free temperament."

Sun Xiao asked in confusion:

"Inner spirit?"

Sun Xuan nodded, "Yes, inner spirit."

"Holmes's mind, demeanor, including his profession, era, and even the story, are all accessories."

"This character setting is destined to be outstanding, not created by the times. If you write Holmes's light of humanity in a modern background, it will still shine."

Seeing his son's confused expression, Sun Xuan quickly added:

"This represents a kind of superego, do you understand?"

Sun Xiao shook his head blankly.

Sun Xuan scratched his head, "How to explain it?"

"Realm! Yes, it is realm!"

"Many similar novels write about so-called geniuses, all of whom have the inner core of a mortal but wear the outer garment of a mortal. But Holmes is not like that. The old thief used this incomprehensible act of injecting cocaine to shape this character."

"It can even be said that Holmes represents the highest inner realm that people seek and bears some sustenance. On the surface, Watson does make readers very involved, but this is a realistic substitution."

"Holmes is different. This is an idealized substitution!"

"Be true to yourself and implement yourself!"

"It can be said that this "Holmes" has gained both rational and emotional recognition from readers."

"Under this premise, it is actually difficult for readers to abandon this emotion and make an objective evaluation of the book, or in other words, these feelings of substitution are part of the book itself."

"And..."

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Sun Xuan's words made Sun Xiao a little confused, because his father used a lot of philosophical and idealistic words.

But the general meaning can still be understood.

As an author, what he sees is definitely more comprehensive.

In the past life, the famous mystery novelist Bloch proposed three requirements for character creation in his "Novel School".

Credibility.

Reader recognition.

And originality.

How credible is this "Sherlock Holmes"?

In the past life, there was a BBC documentary about "Sherlock Holmes".

This documentary went to Baker Street and randomly asked passers-by "Did Sherlock Holmes live in 221B Baker Street?"

Many of these passers-by have not read the original "Sherlock Holmes", but surprisingly, more than 60% of them nodded and said that yes, Sherlock Holmes lived here!

A character in a novel is written to make many people doubt whether this person really exists. You can imagine what the extent is.

The main reason is the background. The era is too real. Even 221B Baker Street, this place really exists and has begun to be checked in!

The UK even wants to contact the old thief to obtain the copyright to build some museums or other related facilities related to "Sherlock Holmes", but so far there has been no positive response.

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