before I met you

Sasha 2022-11-27 06:44:53

The story has a heavy and unforgettable ending, and it still has no correct answer.

Adapted from the novel, based on the author's chance to hear that a young man with a limb disability went to Switzerland with his parents for euthanasia. A tall, rich and handsome man suffered a car accident and paralyzed all the muscles below the neck. At first, he was emotionally unstable and tried to commit suicide, but then a lively and lovely girl came. According to the usual logic, he thought that the hero was redeemed by love and started a new life. Mary Sue plot. The author's point of view is very rational and ruthless. The male protagonist is indeed happy and changed a lot and fell in love with the girl, but in the end he chose euthanasia because he was a man who had a wonderful life before the car accident, no matter his career or life. But because of the car accident, he fell into the abyss. Even if there is love now, it is only love. Moreover, this love is incomplete, and his life is still stubborn. He can stand on the top of the mountain and overlook the heaven and the earth, but now he can only live in the abyss. Looking at Xiaohua next to him, the huge gap in reality caused him psychological trauma, and he couldn't accept the unbearable self. If the male protagonist didn't stand so high before the car accident, but was just ordinary and ordinary, would he be able to face his present self and live with hope? Although his final choice may break the hearts of all those who love him, no one can save him, including himself. He lives in infinite nostalgia for the past. He thinks that he has no future, and he doesn't care about the future. , Without the glory of the past, he would rather die. It is difficult for such a person with high self-esteem and strength to yield to himself. Of course, he is also a kind and loving person, and he cannot bear the drag he brings to the people around him.

For the male protagonist, the meaning of life is obviously more than just survival. About euthanasia, about whether we can end our lives "selfishly"? Everyone has his own attitude and position, respect for life, no matter what, it is his own choice.

(The male protagonist is elegant and charming, and the female protagonist is Long Ma..)

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Me Before You quotes

  • Will Traynor: I have to tell you something.

    Lou Clark: I know. I know about Switzerland, I have known for months. Listen I know this is not how you would have chosen it, but I can make you happy.

    Will Traynor: No.

    Lou Clark: What?

    Will Traynor: No Clarke. This could be a good life, but it's not my life, it's not even close. You never saw me before. I loved my life. I really loved it. I can't be the kind of man who just accepts this.

    Lou Clark: You're not giving it a chance, you're not giving me a chance. I have become a whole new person these last six months because of you.

    Will Traynor: I know and that's why I can't have you tied to me. I don't want you to miss all the things that someone else can give you. And selfishly I don't what you to look at me one day and feel event the tiniest bit of regret or pity.

    Lou Clark: I would never think that!

    Will Traynor: You don't know that. I can't watch you wandering around the annex in your crazy dresses. Or see you naked and not be able to... oh Clarke if you have any idea what I want to do to you right now. I can't live like this.

    Lou Clark: Please Will! Please!

    Will Traynor: Shh. Listen, this, tonight being with you is the most wonderful thing you could have ever done for me. But I need it to end here. No more pain and exhaustion and waking up every morning already wishing it was over. It's not going to get better than this. The doctors know it and I know it. When we get back, I'm going to Switzerland so I'm asking you if you feel the things you say you feel. Come with me.

    Lou Clark: I thought I was changing your mind!

    Will Traynor: Nothing was ever going to change my mind. I promised my parents six months and that's what I have given them.

    Lou Clark: No! Don't say another word. You're so selfish. I tore my heart out in front of you and all you can say is no. And now you want me to come and watch the worst thing you could possibly imagine. Do you have any idea what you're asking? I wish I had never taken this stupid job. I wish I had never met you.

  • Lou Clark: You don't have to be an arse! Your friends got the shitty treatment. Fine *They* deserved it. *I'm* just trying to do my job as best I can. So it would be really nice if you didn't try and make my life as miserable as you apparently make everyone else's.

    Will Traynor: And what if I said I didn't want you here?

    Lou Clark: I'm not employed by you. I'm employed by your mother. So unless *she* says she doesn't want me here anymore, I'm staying. Not because I care about you, or particularly enjoy your company, but because I need the money. I *really* need the money.