When the protagonist woke up for the first time, the old man said that the 48th floor was a good place, and he prayed that he could always be placed in the middle.
This sentence is actually very meaningful. I still remember the Robinson Crusoe I read when I was a child. There is a paragraph in it that Robinson's father said to Robinson, "The middle position is the best position in the world, and it is the best position for people's happiness." The most suitable position, neither in the misfortunes and hardships, the toils and sufferings of the manual laborers, nor in the arrogance and extravagance, ambition and jealousy of the upper classes. He told me that I could learn from such a To judge the happiness of this position, that is, the envy of others."
What Defoe said through Robinson's father's words is actually the same as what the old man said to the protagonist. They are both in the middle class and don't have to worry about bread, but in the end they still follow their inner choices, a persistent one. Going to the sea, one wants to be the savior.
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