This book was recommended to us by Mr. Zhou Ying from German study room.
This book tells the story of a baron who had an argument with his father because he refused to eat snails. In a rage, he climbed to a tree outside the house and never came down. What did a 12-year-old boy experience when he grew up to be a determined man? ?
He lives in a tree, but he loves the earth deeply. Cosimo never left the earth in the tree. He attended the family worship, his sister's wedding, accompanied his mother on the last journey, and let his beloved mother leave with a smile in a beautiful and transparent bubble.
He reads books in trees, reads books almost crazily, communicates with famous people, exercises and learns many skills in trees.
In the tree, he is familiar with every animal and every plant. He hunts, travels and falls in love. He contacts different people, ordinary people, robbers, exiled prisoners, soldiers, high-ranking officials and nobles, and presidents.
He has extraordinary organizational ability and sense of responsibility, helped to establish a fire prevention system, defeated Turkish pirates and repelled wolf attacks. He publishes his own books.
He is very delicate, although in the tree, it has not affected him to maintain the characteristics of modern people in life.
? Cosimo is like this. He is a celebrity who constantly strives for everyone's interests. He devoted himself to the movement of that era and lived an active life: from technological progress to local governance and exquisite life.
He always believes that the only way to be truly with others is to be alienated from others. He stubbornly insists on that inconvenient maverick and being alone with others for himself at every moment of his life.
Cosimo, the baron in the tree, seems to jump on the tree lightly and stick to himself.
? In the discussion of the book, the teacher asked us if we had climbed trees in our respective life experiences. In my opinion, climbing the tree is actually what Calvino showed us. In modern society, individuals in survival dilemma pursue their own space and value!
? My handsome book friends shared their experiences of climbing trees with wise teachers. Some of them don't compromise with their parents in order to win their own choices, some travel around the world for the benefit of their families, some seem to stay away from their parents in order to avoid being ignored, some resolutely give up the stable olive branch, and some try to dream even if they fail. ...
? Listen to everyone, through these seemingly simple stories, maybe what we can do is to realize the gravity of reality, refuse to fall, try to live in a tree like Cosimo, love the earth and fly to the sky.
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