After reading it four times, I finally understand why TS wants to start this journey.

Vaughn 2022-01-16 08:01:18

The first time, to the effect.
The second time, some small snippets that I like.
The third time, some small details.
The fourth step is the outline and how it relates.

I just wanted to write down some of the things I thought about the fourth time.
I have been thinking about why such a small child travels to half a country to receive an award.
But the focus has always been on his little thoughts, narrating his own mental journey by himself.

The fourth time, I kind of figured it out.
It is not difficult to see from the interspersed that TS is very guilty of his brother's death, and he thinks he is responsible.
The family didn't blame him, they didn't accuse him.

But everyone in the family was very sad. Although they didn't accuse him, they didn't comfort him either.
In TS, his father lost his favorite son.
In her mother's eyes, she was an empty house. She has not fulfilled her role as a mother.

He needs someone to speak these words, he needs a window. but.

He insisted on writing the speech by himself. At the last third point, he said it.
At the moment he finished speaking, he returned to the little intellectual who knew everything.

He is extremely clever, but he is also a child.
He has a soft heart.

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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet quotes

  • Layton: Angela Ashworth says AIDS are bad and I probably have them.

    Layton: Well! Next time, you just tell Angela Ashworth, just because she feels insecure about being a little girl in a society that puts an inordinate amount of pressure on women to live up to some physical standard, it doesn't mean that she has to take out her misplaced self loathing on a nice little boy like you. You may be an inherent part of the problem, but certainly doesn't mean you have AIDS.

    Layton: I'm not sure I can remember all that.

    Dr. Clair, Mother: Well, then just tell her... she's fat.

    Layton: OK.

  • Father: [Spoiler] So I'm mute, and I'm dead?