After watching Echo of the Mountain, I feel 1. I didn't finish reading this book in one breath. The whole reading process is very slow, and the characters are complicated, which makes people always confused about what the author wants to say next, and the reading is not so smooth. That's why I have intermittent reading, reading a period of history, reading a period of life's joys and sorrows. Everyone has walked in this world, but what he can't give up is deep feelings.
The novel "Folk Songs" describes the sad separation of a brother and sister for more than 50 years because of current events in the war. When we were apart, my sister didn't find her brother several times until she lost her memory. However, my brother tried his best to miss her for more than half a century. The difficulty of the war is also because of this separation story, which further shows us where you will go from a country to an ordinary family through time and space, with love and hate. There is a complicated political situation running through it, and at the same time there is the sadness of a small family. His writing scope is wider than the previous The Kite Runner, spanning three generations. Through the transformation of time and space, we have a deeper understanding of the lasting and eternal affection. After experiencing the trauma of life, the fragility of life makes people cherish the preciousness of life more, and life also shows the preciousness of happiness in this on-off and on-off.
"Folk Songs" is interspersed with several stories, especially the experience that touched a little girl Luo Shi. After she got an open wound on her head in an accident, she broke her promise to a seemingly kind Idris Kaka. With the help of Timur, a relative who totally ignored Kaka, she healed the wound and stood up again. Most importantly, this life experience also made Luo Shi, which made her see human nature more clearly. At that time, yes, in her life, because of Kaka's bad faith, she had crossed out all kinds of expectations and thoughts for him, and Kaka also deeply hurt his heart because of this encounter. Life can't lose the promise to a person. The promise is silent, but it is actually testing a person's kindness and courage.
I like the repetition in this book: there are 1000 tragedies per square mile, man. Yes, in such a big era, in a world where life has nowhere to store, it is beautiful to live. Compared with us now, happiness has been a mess. This book is heavy to read. It brings people more thoughts about brotherhood, affection and affection. Life always has many shortcomings. For everyone, in the end, we have to face the impermanence of the world, the departure of relatives and the most essential side of human nature. When the people they love are together, they don't feel that way. Life is dull, and sometimes they even quarrel, complain and hate each other. However, after reading this book, they will really love each other and their families. There are countless landscapes in this world. You go over mountains and mountains to find scenery and want to escape the shackles of your family. However, after thousands of waters in Qian Shan, people have to go home after all, and their parents will care for them all their lives. Blood is thicker than water.
This book is about people as well as history. In a troubled country, everyone is like a feather, wrapped in the air of the times, and only the family ties of this life can sustain life. When I opened the book, I drew a feather pattern in each chapter as the interval between each section, which echoed the yellow feather on the cover. I think this feather is not only a token that my brother Abdullah misses compared with his sister Paley, who is seven years younger, but also a metaphor. Feathers are very light, the journey of life has to bear unbearable weight, and everything will leave like feathers. The only thing that can be pinned is a family relationship.
Husseini told the story that happened in Paris perfectly. About Abdullah, it was not until the end of the story that Husseini revealed the secret: he had been worried about his long-lost sister and hoped to meet again. Abdullah said, "She's perfect." This sentence can also be used to evaluate this book.
When I closed the book, I felt more deeply the main idea that the author wanted to convey to us. Every day of life is happy and beautiful, family ties are precious, feelings are rich, the mountains are singing, and the great beauty of life refuses to dissipate in the mountains for a long time.
Reflections on Song in the Mountain 2 Housainy's third novel Song in the Mountain is still so warm and moving, which embodies the understanding and sentiment after many years. This is also the place that has always fascinated me most.
The novel begins with the fairy tale of the demon king entering the village to collect children. As soon as the demon king entered the village, all the villagers hid and ate whoever he saw. As soon as the devil knocks at the door, the family must hand over a child and let the devil take him into his castle in the mountains. If not, the devil will destroy his family. The father in the story struggled for a long time and finally handed over his favorite little son. In the storm, the son shouted his father's name helplessly outside the door, and the father faced the pain of losing his son like a doorknife. One night, father couldn't sleep all night. He got up and went to the devil's castle, ready to compete with him. The devil took him to a room. Through the glass window, he saw his son and other children playing on the grass and living a rich, healthy and happy life. The devil said, you can take him away, but he will never come back. He can only continue to be a farmer's child and live a poor life without food. His father did not take him away. He doesn't believe that he can subvert his destiny and give his children a happy future.
This demon fairy tale was told to the children (Paley and Abdullah) by Father Sabl on the way to send his daughter Paley to Kabul (to be a daughter in her uncle's host family). It is like the needle and thread of a novel, leading to the real pearl. In reality, Sabl has no choice but to give her daughter to others because she is poor and can't afford to raise children. However, Parry and her brother Abdullah suffered from the separation of flesh and blood.
This novel is composed of many clues about characters, and each chapter in the novel takes a character as the center and records their childhood life and growth stories. Some are narrated in the first person and the third person, while others are narrated in the form of letters, which is the most distinctive feature of the novel. Various narrative methods bring readers into the life situations and inner worlds of different characters. Although it was somewhat unknown at first, through the unfolding of the story, we will find that the characters are connected bit by bit. The time and space span of the novel is also great, because poverty and war have created 60 years of joys and sorrows, centering on Afghanistan and spanning Pakistan, the United States, Greece, Paris and other places. Father, son, brother and sister, cousin and stepmother, each of them has learned to love, sacrifice and understand in the long river of life. Even if it is betrayal, we can understand the trick of fate in the process of reading, and life is not easy, and we suddenly realize their helpless choice.
The novel carries a rich matrix, including the love of sisters, the love of master and servant, and the love of father. The Devil's Tale is a story that tests my father. I thought of another interactive movie film, Rainstorm: Black Boy Origami, which tells the story of many children being kidnapped. In order to redeem the child, the father had to pass many tests designed by the origami killer. Why did the murderer take the children and intend to let the fathers pass the test? It turned out that the origami killer lacked his father's love when he was a child, and his father's indifference caused his brother to die in an accident. The anger and injustice in his heart forced him to take the fathers of other children and test how much their fathers could sacrifice for their children. In the end, we found that all the sacrifices of parents are to make children live happily.
In addition to family ties, there are also topics to discuss the hypocrisy of the adult world and the disparity between the rich and the poor, slums and rich areas. Even naive children can feel that they live in the same land, but they live in two lives far from their friends. In fact, it only shows a sputum distance. Husserl's description of the Middle East reminds me of my two months in India. Tents made of fragile plastic paper can be seen everywhere in big cities, and several families live in dirty and shabby spaces. They were holding food bitten by flies in their hands by the roadside.
Reflections on singing in the mountains 3. I don't want to change my thesis. I saw three novels by Khalid Husseini that have been on my desk, so I spent the afternoon rereading one of them-Folk Songs.
The main story line "Folk Songs" tells the story of a brother and sister who have been married for 60 years because of poverty and war. Around their parents, brothers and sisters, even cousins and stepmother, how to love, be hurt, hurt each other and sacrifice each other. According to the official page of the novel, it explores exile, self-sacrifice and complicated family relations. But in fact, Husseini himself said: The Echo of the Mountain begins with the concept of family. It is said that this is one of his most gripping novels so far.
Housainy took the joys and sorrows of three generations of Paley family as a clue and launched a huge puzzle that spanned time and space. Every character is a fragment, and filling his own vacancy will become the integrity of life. Those vague plots in memory restore the other side that you can't see clearly from others. Those people in the novel, through the region, through the war, through life and death, through separation, through commitment, through lies, and finally together. Life is a closed circle, and life in the world is an encounter.
In his book, Husseini quoted a poem by a13rd century poet: Come out of the concept of right and wrong, and I will meet you in a field. There is no right or wrong in life, and you can't win a red card for it. Reconciliation means keeping a place in your heart. You can accommodate life, and life will accommodate you.
No matter where we are or what happens, think about kites, goats and mountains in our hometown. They are all in song for you. Whether you live a good life or not, life has its original appearance. The evocative word "the echo of the mountain" is a metaphor for the long journey of life. Life is like those winding mountain roads: one step at a time, everything is brought into life, and it is almost the same to gain and lose. We shout in the mountains, and later we will hear the echo of the valley. Life is the process of getting it back with love!
Even if Abdullah and Parry don't want to, they are separated in the novel and blown to the ends of the earth like dust. It was not until more than fifty years later that fate reunited them.
Khaled hosseini will tell us several stories about brothers and sisters together, and tiny dust will gather together, emitting a pearl-like imperfect but full and moist luster.
We may all have been lost alone in the endless mountains, but as long as we shout loudly, the echoes from the mountains will continue to respond to us, fill our anxiety and fear, and guide us to find our way home, so we should not be lonely, no longer lonely.
When Abdullah and Parry met again after 58 years, a memory was gradually lost and a memory had already been deprived. So what is reunion for them? Is there an impulse to make people laugh through tears? Or is there a loneliness that makes people feel sad? Sometimes, I always feel that the power of crying and laughing is the sound of stories with incomplete lives!
I still remember that the same author wrote in The Kite Runner: "For you, Qian Qian is a hundred times." That is the redemption of one's own destiny, and it is also an incomplete life, an incomplete opportunity, and never give up without compromise. I still remember that in "Brilliant Thousand Yang", the protagonist said, "She has finally become an important person in the eyes of others." This is a struggle against my own destiny. I didn't compromise or give up. But this time, in Singing in the Mountains, the author wrote a compromise to fate, which is based on a life situation that is too unsatisfactory but seems reasonable. Therefore, after compromise, what is revealed is the true nature of life, a state of life in which people will not complain all the time. For ordinary people, especially those who have experienced the cruel teasing of brothers and sisters, everything seems hard to come by. So this kind of compromise, based on the imperfection of life, often makes people feel that it is actually a silent struggle, isn't it?
So, at the end of the novel, I sang the ballad again, and everything came at the same time. The mountain finally came back, and the person who sang to the right finally came back. The nursery rhyme goes like this: I saw a sad little fairy, staying in the shadow of a paper tree, and I knew that the sad little fairy was blown away by the evening breeze. ...
Reflections on singing in the mountains 4. Husseini's trilogy, the earliest The Kite Runner, tells the story of two men. Not long ago, I watched Brilliant Thousand Sunnies, which tells the story of two women. This week's "Singing Back to the Mountain" has created many vivid characters, and the theme has become more grand and open. There are nine chapters in the book, and the story is told in the first person with nine different characters: "Every square mile has a thousand tragedies.
Since human nature is complex, it means that it is difficult to simply describe it as good or bad. This novel, which started with a fairy tale, exposes the cruelty of reality step by step under the narrative of the author's constantly changing perspectives. Growth, loss, helplessness, betrayal, indifference, redemption, in the book, we can see multiple keywords. "The mountains are silent, but there is an echo." Everyone is like a mountain, with his own love and kindness, his own hatred and sadness, his own selfishness, his own cowardice and his own sympathy. These feelings echoed in the valley, singing. The main line of the book is the reunion of Abdullah and Paley after their separation, which is interspersed with stories of other related figures. Each chapter is independent, and there are three plots that impressed me the most:
The first is the same-sex love between Nabi and his master Suleiman Wahdati, which I mentioned in the first paragraph. At first, Nabi had a passionate unrequited love for Sulaiman's wife, Nila, and even sold her sister's stepdaughter, Pali, to the couple as a daughter to realize Nila's wish. When Nella and Nabi said, "Nabi, it's always been you, it's all you, don't you know?" ; I was touched when Nabi found Suleiman's album in the closet. Suleiman is serious and unsmiling, and has no indecent behavior towards Nabi. His love for Navi is selfless and never asks for anything in return. Nabi can walk with him at ordinary times. Nabi could have run away when he knew, but he didn't leave. In the ordinary days when Suleiman was ill and they lived alone, mutual companionship became the most tender part of daily life.
The second is the story of Idris. Idris never liked the grandiosity of his younger brother Tilmu. He believes that doing good deeds should be done silently, not ostentatiously. The little girl Luo Shi was chopped by her father. Idris visited her, accompanied her and tried to help her through his own efforts. After returning to America, he flinched in the face of all kinds of difficulties and trifles. He failed to fulfill his promise to Luo Shi, and it was his grandiose brother Tiermu who formed a sharp contrast with his style of acting and finally saved Luo Shi. When Luo Shi wrote a book, Idris stood on the guilty side. Roche wrote: "Don't worry, you are not in the book." In fact, Idris's story is closest to the psychological situation that ordinary people may encounter when making choices. How many Idris in our life give others hope but let others down because of their cowardice and compromise?
Third, the two brothers and sisters reunited and got Alzheimer's disease. Abdullah forgot his sister Paley, and her sister Paley also forgot the gift box full of feathers when she was a child. When he left, Paley was still young and forgotten. After 60 years of joys and sorrows, the sick Abdullah was forgotten. When Jane was just confirmed, Abdullah wrote a letter to Paley: "They told me that I was destined to go into the water and would sink soon. I left it on the shore before we set off. Here you are. I beg you to find it, sister, so you must know what I was thinking when I sank into the water. " He has been waiting for someone all his life, but he doesn't remember her. In the fairy tale at the beginning of the article, the demon king asked his father to hand over one of his children, and finally the father who drank the potion of the demon king lost his memory. Is forgetting really happier than remembering? How can I fill the ever-empty hole in my heart? "All our lives, we only look for the person we lost at first."
After reading this article, I don't talk about the style of writing, the structure of the novel, but only the story, because there are several chapters that I think are gathering words. In fact, the story of Marcos and Celera in Chapter 8 is also very shocking. If you are interested, you can look for it.
After reading Folk Songs, summer vacation is a long and boring holiday. Except my favorite basketball class, the rest are all kinds of cram schools. Fortunately, I have a beloved book to accompany me. I accidentally found a copy of Husseini's Echo of the Mountain on my mother's bedside. The cover is really nothing special. I picked it up and flipped through it, reluctant to leave it behind. I watched it all at once, and then slowly watched it many times. Combined with the history of this country told me by my mother in recent decades, I gradually realized a lot of life that I had never touched before.
Folk Song begins with a fable about a father, Abulong, who gave his beloved little son to the devil to save other children and the whole village. Since then, he has been in a daze, as if he had lost something. Finally, he decided to find the devil and get his child back. When he went through all kinds of hardships to find the devil, he found that the child lived a paradise in the devil's garden, with flowers and laughter everywhere. Although he really wanted to hug the child he missed day and night and take him home, the extremely poor life made him rationally choose to turn around and leave. When Abulong lived to a very old age, he recalled his long life and thanked him for his kindness and joy on sleepless nights. He knows that more desire is too greedy. A ripe fruit, a smooth old stone. Among all the noise, there is a different sound, jingling, which is the little bell he tied around his son's neck. This leads the story to the beginning. Paley's family is extremely poor, and her mother has long since passed away. The first brother born to my stepmother froze to death in winter, and now she has a second one. Dad struggles with drought and poverty every day. The person who loves her most in the family is her half-brother Abdullah, who loves her very much. He sold his favorite new shoes in order to give her a beautiful peacock feather. Life is extremely difficult. Later, in order to survive, my father had to sell Parry to the rich in big cities. Even if Abdullah and Parry didn't want to, they were blown to the ends of the earth like dust. After more than fifty years, they met again. But my brother's memory is gradually lost, and my sister has long forgotten her childhood. What is this reunion for them? At the end of the novel, I sang that song again and everything came at the same time. The mountains are still singing: I saw the sad little fairy, staying in the shadow of the paper tree, and I knew the sad little fairy, and the evening wind blew her away.
Although my life experience can't make me imagine what it's like to leave life and death. But every time I read it, my heart is jammed and my eyes are astringent. Due to the national war, people in many countries in the world have experienced such a life-and-death separation, and their families have been ruined. Just as our motherland was in chaos more than 60 years ago, how many people were separated and there were ruins everywhere. I am glad that I live in a strong new China and my motherland is strong and prosperous. Life is simple and happy, with parents who love me. We can join our favorite interest classes and travel around during the summer vacation. Occasionally my mother will take us to eat delicious food. Compared with Paley brothers and sisters, we really live in heaven, but I often complain, often don't want to do my homework, and often feel sad and disappointed because my mother refuses my request to buy toys. It's childish to think about it now!
For a boy who is about to enter the sixth grade, I also know that our motherland is constantly being provoked and suppressed by neighboring countries and the United States because of its rising strength. On the one hand, I hope that China people, especially the young people, have backbone, unite and truly love our motherland. If the country does not exist, where is home? At the same time, we should also learn from Japanese children, learn to endure hardships and struggle from an early age, and don't be spoiled flowers. Study hard, make the motherland stronger, keep the war away from all ordinary people, and do your part for world peace!
After reading Echo of the Mountain, I didn't finish the book in one breath. The whole reading process is slow and the characters are complicated. People are always confused about what the author wants to say next, and reading is not so smooth. That's why I have intermittent reading, reading a period of history, reading a period of life's joys and sorrows. Everyone has walked in this world, but what they can't give up is their deep feelings and love for their families.
The novel "Folk Songs" describes the sad parting of a brother and sister in Afghanistan because of the current events of the war for more than 50 years. When we were apart, my sister didn't find her brother several times until she lost her memory. However, my brother has been missing her for more than half a century. The difficulty of the war is also because of this story of separation and integration, which allows us to further see where you will go from a country to an ordinary family through time and space, with love and hate. There is a complicated political situation running through it, and at the same time there is the sadness of a small family. His writing scope is wider than the previous The Kite Runner, spanning three generations. Through the transformation of time and space, we have a deeper understanding of the lasting and eternal affection. After experiencing the trauma of life, the fragility of life makes people cherish the preciousness of life more, and life also shows the preciousness of happiness in this on-off and on-off.
"Folk Songs" is interspersed with several stories, especially the experience that touched a little girl Luo Shi. After she got an open wound on her head in an accident, she broke her promise to a seemingly kind Idris Kaka. With the help of Timur, a relative who totally ignored Kaka, she healed the wound and stood up again. Most importantly, this life experience also made Luo Shi, which made her see human nature more clearly. At that time, yes, in her life, because of Kaka's bad faith, she had crossed out all kinds of expectations and thoughts for him, and Kaka also deeply hurt his heart because of this encounter. Life can't lose the promise to a person. The promise is silent, but it is actually testing a person's kindness and courage.
I like the repetition in this book: there are 1000 tragedies per square mile, man. Yes, in such a big era, in a world where life has nowhere to store, it is beautiful to live. Compared with us now, happiness has been a mess. This book is heavy to read. It brings people more thoughts about brotherhood, affection and affection. Life always has many shortcomings. For everyone, in the end, we have to face the impermanence of the world, the departure of relatives and the most essential side of human nature. When the people they love are together, they don't feel that way. Life is dull, and sometimes they even quarrel, complain and hate each other. However, after reading this book, they will really love each other and their families. There are countless landscapes in this world. You go over mountains and mountains to find scenery and want to escape the shackles of your family. However, after traveling all over Qian Shan, people will go home after all, and their parents will be concerned for life. Blood is thicker than water. ...
This book is about people as well as history. In the disaster-stricken Afghanistan, everyone is like a feather, wrapped in the air of the times, and only the family ties of this life can sustain life. When I opened the book, I drew a feather pattern in each chapter as the interval between each section, which echoed the yellow feather on the cover. I think this feather is not only a token that my brother Abdullah misses compared with his sister Paley, who is seven years younger, but also a metaphor. Feathers are very light, the journey of life has to bear unbearable weight, and everything will leave like feathers. The only thing that can be pinned is a family relationship.
Husseini told the story perfectly with the background of Afghanistan and Paris. About Abdullah, it was not until the end of the story that Husseini revealed the secret: he had been worried about his long-lost sister and hoped to meet again. Abdullah said, "She's perfect." This sentence can also be used to evaluate this book.
When I closed the book, I felt more deeply the main idea that the author wanted to convey to us. Every day of life is happy, family is precious, feelings are rich, the mountains are singing, and the great beauty of life refuses to dissipate in the mountains for a long time. ...
After reading Echo of the Mountain, 7 this reading note has been stopped many times. Seeing that the deadline for submission has passed, I am anxious. I want to deal with things in a hurry but I can't bear to treat a book that I have loved so much for many years (this stems from an agreement).
I have read all three works by Khalid Husseini. The Kite Runner is a story about growth, betrayal and self-redemption. What it impacts me is a kind of introspection, a kind of persistence, a kind of responsibility and a kind of courage. Brilliant Thousand Yang tells the story of two Afghan women. The tone of the whole novel is depressing and breathless, which makes people's heart sting and stomach tighten. After reading it, I can't watch it again, just like now, I don't have the courage to watch the Tangshan earthquake, and my little heart can't bear the huge tragedy. And this song "Singing Back to the Mountain" made me watch it three times, because it really made my heart turn a thousand times and my heart surged. I seem to find myself in every role. This is the magic that this book brings me. Each chapter of the novel is a character, a story, seemingly scattered, but intertwined like a spider's web, and the subtle connection pulls everyone into the same world.
The novel begins with a devil's fairy tale told by a father to his children before going to bed. The children listened with relish, but didn't know the helplessness, struggle and pain behind the story. He is the real ayub, and tomorrow he will lose his pride and send away his daughter Paley. From then on, Paley started another life, while her brother Abdullah left home with a longing for his sister's life. Fifty-eight years later, the young Paley has already blurred the time he spent with his brother in Shadbach, and his brother Abdullah has long been unable to tell the past from the present because of illness. However, the lullaby that Abdullah sang to Paley always brought the two brothers and sisters together with a magical power.
I saw the sad little fairy,
Stay in the shadow of the paper tree.
I know the sad fairy,
The evening breeze blew her away.
Husseini is really a master of storytelling, and his narrative ability is super strong. Paley and Abdullah are the centers of cobwebs, but they are not the protagonists. In this book, each chapter has a character, everyone has his own life, and everyone is the protagonist of his own story, so there are many characters in the novel, which seems to have no protagonist, but they all seem to be protagonists.
The Wahdati couple who adopted Paley each had unspeakable pain. Mr. Wahdati loves his driver Nabi(Pali's stepmother's brother) deeply. Behind the silence is the depressed pain of life and the happiness that will never be obtained. Mrs. Vakhdati ran for happiness desperately, striving for it, but her hands were empty, and happiness was even more out of reach in alcoholism and indulgence.
Nabi, the driver who secretly loves his mistress, has spent his life guarding Vahdati who suffered a stroke because of his responsibility and conscience.
Idris, Wahdat's neighbor, and timur, his cousin, made promises easily, but escaped in reality. The other challenged the weakness and hypocrisy in human nature with a cynical attitude and helped the poor Afghan girl Luo Shi with practical love. Six years later, the recovered Roche published a biography of herself in the United States, thanking Timur for helping her get reborn. When signing the book, Luo Shi recognized Idris, and strangers responded with polite smiles. "Don't worry, there is no you inside!" " .
Marcos, a Greek plastic surgeon who helped Paley find her relatives, performed another love story. When she was a child, Celera, a widowed mother, fled and came back, just like Max's absurdity. How crazy he wants to escape from his mother and Celera, only to find that love is a net. No matter how far he goes, there is a line to pull him home.
The mountains echo, hiding the metaphor of the long journey of life, just like the winding path of life, which is hard but full of hope.
In the endless wilderness, red Che Le has a mountain on his back, and his father is hunched over, wearing slippers and following the cart, stubbornly guarding his sister Abdullah. Between the mountains, in the desert and wasteland, life is regained and lost, all kinds of ties and entanglements, all kinds of love and hate are taken away by the gentle whisper of sand. The setting sun retreated in the orange glow until it gradually disappeared in the vast black night sky and never disappeared again.