上周，我们一同领略了写作大赛中高分议论文的独特风采，是否仍觉得意犹未尽，余韵绕梁？今日，小U将再度引领大家，走进2019“外研社·国才杯”全国英语写作大赛决赛冠军的记叙文世界，一同沉浸于选手笔下那些扣人心弦的故事，并聆听专家的精妙点评！
本次大赛的记叙文题目，源自唐代诗人孟郊的《游子吟》。题目要求选手们基于这首诗，创作一篇真实或虚构的故事，并自拟标题，字数控制在600至800字之间。
游子吟
孟郊
慈母手中线，游子身上衣。
临行密密缝，意恐迟迟归。
谁言寸草心，报得三春晖。
A Traveller's Song
By Meng Jiao
Translated by Liu Jianxun
The thread in the hands of a fond-hearted mother
Makes clothes for the body of her wayward boy;
Carefully she sews and thoroughly she mends,
Dreading the delays that will keep him late from home.
But how much love has the inch-long grass
For three spring months of the light of the sun?
许泓一，来自四川大学，是2019“外研社·国才杯”全国英语写作大赛的冠军得主。在审题后，他敏锐地捕捉到记叙文创作主题的核心——亲情。然而，这一主题易流于俗套，如何写出新意与真情，成为他构思的重点。
许泓一决定采用书信体进行写作，并受茨威格《Letter from an Unknown Woman》的启发，确定了标题《A Letter from an Unknown Child》。他巧妙地用生死问题解释“unknown”一词，但与茨威格小说中绝望的情感截然不同，他认为《游子吟》传递的是充满希望的感激，从而明确了故事的整体走向。
在行文过程中，他注重保持记叙文的故事性，避免沦为纯粹的抒情文段。故事围绕“我”对母亲成长过程中缺席认识的加深而展开，将母亲为“我”而死作为悬念，最终在揭示悬念时将故事推向高潮。同时，他反复阅读《游子吟》，将其理解为一个隐喻，融入文中，希望通过“失去母亲的游子”这一意象，引发读者对成长、矛盾、生命的联想。
A Letter from an Unknown Child
Dear Mom,
I have encountered the poem A Traveler's Song again in my class, in this strange land where I feel so lonely. I cannot help but write something for you, Mom, even though we have been separated for so long, and I have traveled so much that I never actually speak to you. Now, I'm writing to you to tell my story about your absence.
True, life was hard without you. When I traveled in this world at the age of ten, I was always bullied by others who enjoyed the jocund company of their mothers. They laughed at me, teasing me as a "pathetic pity," as some primitive creature with no family teaching. I tried to fight back, wrestling with the boys and pulling other girls' hair, but it was all in vain.
（由于篇幅限制，此处省略部分原文内容，但保持故事连贯性）
重读全文，许泓一坦言自己的语言仍有不少缺陷，观点也不够成熟。但他仍然希望这个故事能带给读者一些感动与思考，让我们一同走进这封未知孩子的信，感受那份深沉而真挚的情感。
