God does not care whether his people live or die, nor does he care whether they are healthy or not, much less whether they are at peace. It is not God who taught us to stop evil and do good, but we take responsibility in our growth experience to help those around us and be useful people.
In the original book, Dr. Lacy supports a "life first" bill that would ban abortion. After he was admitted to Harvard University, his father found him a prostitute and supported him to have fun. After indulgence, he contracted gonorrhea. After being cured, he became addicted to ether, and he has never been close to women. After graduating, he went to work in the remote St. Clouds orphanage, and the prostitute failed to have an abortion and died on Dr. Lacy's operating table; the prostitute's daughter also asked him to have an abortion for herself, but Lacy refused for fear of breaking the law. , when the daughter of the prostitute was carried again, she also died on her operating table. Dr. Lacy regrets not aborting the daughter of a prostitute, because if she did, she wouldn't die. Dr. Lacy felt that he killed the mother and daughter because he followed the rules. Since then, Dr. Lacy has secretly aborted desperate women, risking his dismissal.
The male protagonist Homer is the name given by Dr. Lacy when he adopted him. The children of the orphanage cannot go to school due to lack of material conditions, so they can only be accompanied by Dr. Lacy to study at night. Adopted by a wealthy family, and the male protagonist is a child who has not been adopted until he is in his twenties. Dr. Lacy taught him to read and write, and to learn the physiology of the human body. The focus is on the operation of female birth and abortion. Quick and talented. The male protagonist, Homer, thinks that abortion is wrong, and is only willing to do the delivery. He shies away from the abortion to Dr. Lacy. He believes that the baby is innocent, and the irresponsible thing of the adult cannot be borne by the baby. St. Cloud's Orphanage also undertakes the work of obstetrics and gynecology and abortion in private. Dr. Lacy originally hoped that he could become a hero who can show his skills, but in the end, he kindly became a "God", and put those who have been abandoned by their parents. Abandoned orphans are brought up, given infinite love, and shaped into "Princes of Maine" and "Kings of New England." Doctor Homer is undoubtedly the most outstanding among them, and has become a qualified successor of the orphanage.
The couple Hua Li and Gandy came to the orphanage to have an abortion. They were too young to have children so early, and their fiancé, Hua Li, despite the dissuasion of his family, insisted on joining the army as a pilot. After Dr. Lacy performed an abortion on Gandy, Homer took care of them and followed them out of the orphanage. He wanted to use his abilities to explore the outside world very early on.
Homer loves the two of them, and the couple also likes Homer very much. Wally and Homer have a very good relationship. At Homer's request, he arranges him to work in his apple orchard. Here I met a team of black pickers led by Loos, who worked like migratory birds back and forth with the apple harvest season.
After Wally returns to the battlefield, Homer begins to fall in love with her through Gandhi's enlightenment. This is Homer's first love. For him, Gandy means not only love, but also too many new experiences. She is almost an ideal world that responds beautifully to him: Gandy takes him to experience the outside world. Life, take him to the sea, to see lobster, to see a movie. Almost simultaneously, the film also hints that Homer, like the clumsy King Kong in the only film he has ever seen, is reborn under the guidance of a beautiful woman. It wasn't until Gandy and Hua Li's mother were notified by the military that Hua Li lost contact with his plane during the battle and lost contact after parachuting. Paralyzed, this made Gandy feel unbearable, and shouldered the responsibility of taking care of Hua Li for the rest of his life. Here, Homer learns that Gandy is not accustomed to being alone, and after her repeated sexual innuendo to Homer, he responds to her need with his love, not her love that summons his loving response. At this time, the news of Dr. Lacy's death came, and Homer's reason for staying disappeared. It was long overdue to follow Lacy's wishes to take over the orphanage.
Dr. Lacy is a game-changer. He was reluctant to enlist Homer in the army, and used X-rays of a child with heart disease to make Homer exempt from military service. He trained Homer to be a skilled obstetrician and gynecologist, produced a diploma for him without a degree, and falsified his education, academic record, and missionary experience to get him through the board of directors for professionally qualified personnel. Dr. Homer, following Dr. Lacy's wishes, became the guardian of St. Clouds Orphanage.
The general plot in the original
The film has changed a lot from the original, and after the original Chinese force returned to the battlefield, his life and death were unknown, and there was no news at all. Homer takes Gandy back to the orphanage. This time Gandy gives birth to a child named Angel whose father is Homer. Homer said: "Angel is the first child born in the orphanage who is not an orphan." They spent the happiest month there, and then received the news that Wally was still alive, and they made a rule: The two have to keep a secret and love Angel together. Homer will always be Angel's father. Homer took Ganty and Angel back to the cider house and said to everyone: "They adopted an orphan in an orphanage".
After Wally returns to the Cider House, Wally and Gandy get married and live on the first floor, while Homer and Angel live on the second floor. All three of them love Angel, and Angel has never asked who her parents are. He called Homer Papa, Gandy Gandy, Wally Wally, and Wally the boy.
How did three adults live together for 15 years?
By the time Angel was 15, Homer and Gandy had sex a total of 270 times, an average of 1.5 times a month. Every time they have to go to a hotel far away. Homer says Angel is old enough to tell him the truth. Gandy said, "I don't want to hurt Wally. Angel will deny me. Just wait." Homer said, "Maybe Wally already knew."
There is only one reason why Gandy and Homer have worked so hard to keep their secrets: "I would rather suffer myself than hurt Hua Li." And Hua Li was able to coexist peacefully with the two of them, and he should have guessed their good intentions long ago. They loved each other and had no intention of hurting either one.
Gandy didn't lose the right to be a mother because of Homer. Homer has finished the first half of his life, and he has also found his destination for the second half of his life, that is to be a useful person, leave the apple house, go to the orphanage, to himself, to everyone, to the whole orphanage and the woman who has lost his footing It's all the best ending.
The first half of Homer's life was shaped by Dr. Lacy, and the second half of his life was shaped by Gandy, because accompanying Angel also felt that he was no longer an orphan.
At the age of 90, Dr. Lacy sent Homer a box of surgical instruments, and Dr. Lacy always believed that Homer "could be a useful person" to maintain the operation of the orphanage. He finally found his home.
Angel fell in love with the daughter of a worker in the orchard, a woman who was pregnant with an unwanted child. She begged Angel to help her find a place where she could have an abortion. Angel told the Hua Li couple and his father about this. . Homer tells Angel to go to an orphanage, where Dr. Larch secretly has abortions. Gandy told Homer that the pregnancy was caused by the girl's father, because Gandy saw her father rape her in the apple house, and the apple orchard workers knew about it, and they had to stay on the roof at this time, These were the rules his father had set for the apple orchard workers.
Homer thought that rules are not necessarily all right, that what is prohibited by law is not necessarily all right, and what is illegal is not necessarily all wrong. The next day, Homer told Angel, "I'm a qualified doctor." Homer helped the woman complete the abortion. Homer himself has also completed the transformation of ideological choices and the baptism of life. And Gandy also told Hua Li the truth.
After the truth came, the four of them were still the same as before. The only thing that keeps their relationship strong is one thing, and that's love, love that's intertwined.
Digression one
In the early years, I had an idea about the legalization of prostitutes. Since the birth of human beings, prostitution and whoring have been practiced, which cannot be stopped even by capital punishment. Then we should change our thinking to promote the legalization of prostitutes and protect them. To ensure their survival and health, establish health files for them, conduct regular physical examinations, conduct popular science propaganda on sexually transmitted diseases, and popularize physiological knowledge of common diseases.
Digression two
In "Lifestyle," Gould tells the cultural history of the mate-swapping movement in the United States. Gould pointed out that the prototype of modern American mate swapping should be Air Force pilots and their wives during World War II. These "ace pilots" had a very strong friendship, but also faced a very high casualty rate. In response, they exchanged with their wives before taking off for the Japanese artillery fire. After the war, the surviving husband was required to take care of all the widows, a phenomenon that continued until the late 1940s.
Two off-topic excerpts from: Marriage Crisis: A Prehistoric Perspective
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