(Written on May 3, 2017)
I think the worst thing in the world is to be full of thoughts and secrets, but no one can tell, but no one understands-Stephen King
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Midland’s English classes are always inconsistent. They often finish one section at two o’clock and may have to wait until five o’clock in the next class. Fortunately, there is a bookstore next door. I went to the bookstore to read a book while I was waiting for class and found this For me, it’s a good way to save money. Those books that you don’t want to read a second time after reading them don’t need to buy them home. After reading them, you feel that they are still not enough and you just need to take the books as your own. take away.
The one that just ended is a collection of short stories by Stephen King, which includes four short stories "Shawshank's Redemption", "Nazi Protestant", "Dead" and "Breathe Breath". I want to focus on "Autumn No Longer Innocent—" "The Corpse" this article.
It was only halfway through that I found out that this was the original work of a movie "Along with Me" that I had watched a long time ago. I did not expect Stephen King, who is good at writing horror novels, to write such a warm story.
There are four twelve-year-old boys in the story, each with its own troubles and misfortunes.
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Narrator Gordon, an "invisible man" ignored by his parents. A few months ago, his brother Danny was killed in a car accident. The parents have been so sorrowful that they can hardly remember the existence of another son. In fact, even if Danny is safe and sound, Gordon has never been noticed.
Danny was born unexpectedly five years after his mother was declared "There is no hope of having children in this life", so for parents, Danny is a great surprise and a gift from heaven. However, ten years after the doctor announced that "he will be your only child", the mother was pregnant with Gordon again. This time it was probably no longer a surprise to them. At that time, the mother was 42 years old, "I think Once a person is over forty, he doesn’t like surprises as much as he did when he was twenty."
Parents put all their energy on Danny, and Gordon is just like the protagonist of "The Invisible Man", "Unless he causes some misfortune, no one will notice his existence; when people look at him, they always seem to I didn't see it; no one answered when he spoke, like a black ghost."
Gordon even felt that after Danny died unexpectedly, everyone had a thought when they saw him: the damn is you, Gordon, the damn is you.
Curry can be said to be the most mature, wise, forbearing, and brave of the four boys, but also the one with the worst family background. His father is a drunkard, and his two brothers are also famous bad guys. Portsmouth was serving his sentence, and his second brother, nicknamed Popeye Snake, dropped out of school early and fooled around with other gangsters in the town.
It is conceivable for such a family. No one wants to know what kind of child Curry is. They only judge his personality and future based on the performance of his father and brothers.
Teddy, the dumbest of the four children, is impulsive, adventurous, and does not consider the consequences. He is almost crazy and has congenital vision problems. When he was eight years old, his father was furious because he broke the plate and slammed his head. On the stovetop, his two ears became "two pieces of soft wax."
Wein should be regarded as the slightly happier of the four children. He has no rough parents, but there is an older brother who beats him and bullies him frequently, and is just as simple-minded as Teddy.
In the eyes of Gordon’s father, his son’s three playmates were a thief (because Curry was found to have stolen the milk money from the school) and two idiots. But for these children, although they sometimes make noise or even fight, the friendship between them is almost the only warmth they can feel in their limited lives.
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Wein overheard that his brother Billy had discovered the body of the missing child Brouer, so he notified the other three partners of the news, and then the four children decided to travel a long distance along the railroad tracks to Helow Road to find the body.
Although only one day and one night away, they have gone through all kinds of hardships: in order to prevent Teddy from flashing the train, Gordon and Teddy had a big fight; when buying food, Gordon was bullied and insulted by the store owner; by the dumpster. Vicious dogs attacked; Teddy was called "the stinky boy born to a madman"; crossed the bridge across the castle river and almost crashed into a passing train; overnight in the forest; playing in the water but covered with leeches ...
They also encouraged and comforted each other. When Teddy was crying because his father was called a lunatic, Curry comforted him, "Words are the least valuable. The things between you and your dad cannot be changed by others."
When the story told by Gordon was deceived by Wein and Teddy, Curry encouraged him to say "Every time you tell it is the best, Gordon, one day you will become a great writer."
And when they finally found Brouer's body and almost started a fight with the older children because of it, it was Currie again who fired the pistol stolen from his father's cabinet.
Indeed, they are not good children in the traditional sense. They are only twelve years old, but they smoke, drink, fight, read pornographic magazines, and are full of swear words. However, in fact, good or bad is really defined by these external behaviors. ?
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Currie did steal the milk money from the school, but later he returned the money to the teacher because of his inner anxiety, but the money did not show up because the teacher was wearing a new skirt when he came to class next week. However, Currie has been charged with a thief from beginning to end. No one has ever questioned it, just because he is the rapist Fran, the brother of the gang-eyed Snake, and a drunk dad. Such children, those who think that they are righteous, can do it. Discrimination and bullying casually.
Sometimes, children rebel and do bad things, not because they are bad in nature, but just a kind of revenge and rebellion against the world’s malice. In their limited cognition, they may not know that they are self-improving and working hard. It is also a kind of revenge. All they can think of is to do bad things to anger others. They can't think that this kind of behavior hurts others while destroying themselves.
Just like Gordon’s story about the pie-eating contest, the fat boy David Hogan deliberately swallowed a bottle of castor oil before participating in the pie-eating contest in order to get revenge on others. Vomiting, but what will he get in the end? It may be just "Children still call him He Zhu, but some children also start to call him-the King of Vomiting."
But Curry knew that besides sinking and revenge, they had another choice, so he said to Gordon, "If you let your friends drag you into the water, you are a stupid donkey... If I were your dad, I would I won’t let you say that you want to enter the art class! God has given you a certain talent, a talent for making stories, and then he said: My child, this is what we give you. Please try not to lose it. .If your family can't remind you, then maybe I should do it.
"The stories you told are the most meaningful to yourself. If you continue to be with us because you don't want to break up this group of friends, you will end up with us. You will get sixty points in the exam without repeating the grade. After high school, I still went to the ghost art class. I mingled with those dumb donkeys, throwing pencils, throwing erasers, often detained in school, and even suspended from school. After a while, all you think about is how to do it. A car can take a girl to dance or go out in a tavern for a while, and soon you will marry her, and then spend the rest of your life in some ruined factory or shoe store, or even pull out chicken feathers in a chicken farm. So you are so big The story of the cake is never written, and nothing can be written, because clever people like you are everywhere."
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They are people who step on the mud ditch with one foot. It is too easy to sink, because they occupy the right time and place, and they don’t need any effort. Just give up on themselves and give up struggling, but self-improvement seems too difficult, because not only Friends, everything around them is fighting against them , just like everything Currie has suffered after choosing the college class:
"Parents thought he was pretending, friends thought he had become a good student and would never be with him again, and the tutor thought that his homework must not be able to keep up. That year he wanted to give up more than a dozen times, and his father was especially desperate to beat him. He accused Curry of consciously better than his father, accused Curry of wanting to go to college so as to spend his hard-earned money. Once he knocked Curry on the back of the head with a bottle, but Curry went to the emergency room of the hospital again and had four stitches. He just closed his brains together. His old friends-now mostly smoking and fooling around all day-all laughed at him very much when they saw him. The tutor persuaded him to take a few craft courses, so they won't fail all of them. Of course. The worst thing is: he abandoned the previous seven years of education, now he has regained his schoolwork and is beginning to suffer a lot."
However, he finally survived everything. He was admitted to the university and went to graduate school. He realized his wish when he was 12 years old. A place where no one knows me, where I don’t have any stains, and I can start over."
In the same situation, some people will perish, such as Teddy and Wein. They don't seem to see themselves standing in the mud. They think that is their life, what the world should be. But some people pull themselves out of the mud by their hair because they keep admonishing themselves: Even if there are thousands of people blocking them, they will never surrender.
Someone once left a message to me on Weibo saying that my background is not good, and it is difficult for me to have a good son... I replied to him: Whether he can become a good son or not, the decision is in my own hands.
Family and background do affect our lives to a certain extent, but I never think that these influences are irreversible. We are not only born with the only starting point, but life can be started again, any time you want to change your destiny. The moment.
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