Reading Larks and Teenagers-Love and Dreams Grow Together.

Seeing the title "Larks and Teenagers", I can't help thinking of Mr. Mu Xin's poetry collection "Larks Cry All Day", which is also so beautiful and pure.

Lark is a singer among birds, with a lively and sweet voice, which symbolizes the love of life and the yearning for freedom.

Although the teenagers in the book have also experienced growing pains and faced heavy and painful wars, their yearning for beauty and freedom will never be erased. Isn't it like a lark, which makes people love and pity?

This book is a children's novel written by British writer Hilary MacKay. The text is clear and warm, which is not only suitable for children to read, but also touches every adult reader.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a girl named Clary was born in a humble stone house in England. However, her mother died of severe anemia only three days after her birth.

This seems to have doomed clarice's unfortunate fate from birth. Her father is busy with work all day, and he is estranged from his children. Clara also has a brother Peter who is three years older than her. I was very grumpy when I was a child, and I didn't like my sister at one time.

Cornwall's grandmother had to take care of her younger brother and sister and let her grandson Rupert live in a boarding school (Rupert's parents abandoned him when he was a child and went to India). When Dan Clary was three years old, grandma couldn't wait to go back to her hometown. She and her brother can only grow up under the rough care of the nanny.

If you think that living in such an environment will make clarice gloomy and lonely, you are wrong. Although the material conditions are not rich, and parents' care is lacking, clarice still lives into a small sun with its own aura, warm and lively, just like the name given to her by her mother before her death, pure and bright.

She hummed while painting, jumped briskly when she went downstairs, stopped to talk to cats and horses when she walked, and was never frightened by Peter's bad temper. Such girls undoubtedly love life. Her natural optimism also infected the people around her.

The happiest thing in childhood is to spend every summer at my grandparents' home in Cornwall. The book says: "Summer is sparkling happiness. Summer is opal, topaz, lapis lazuli and diamonds falling from the sky. Summer is Cornwall. " This kind of writing makes people feel deeply intoxicated.

Cornwall has green sea, white seagulls, colorful wilderness, rabbits running on the grass, and countless homemade foods in grandma's kitchen.

There are too many hardships in life, but there are also many small blessings in life. This little bit of beauty needs a heart that loves life to discover. An optimistic and open-minded person can feel the brightness of the starry sky even if he is in the sewer.

It's really hard to lose the comfort of my mother's warm arms when I was born. But at the same time, clarice and her brother also got a lot of love.

Miss Fan En, a kind neighbor, often comes to help. The scarves she knitted for her younger brothers and sisters are warmer, although some of them are neck-tied. Seeing that Clara's skirt was torn, she made her a new one with tartan. Although the color is not pleasing and doesn't suit her very well, she did her best.

It was also at Miss Fan En's suggestion that young clarice was sent to a girls' school. The classroom is on the top floor of a steep and shabby house, the lights are dim, and the smoke from the coal stove for heating is suffocating, but it is the beginning of clarice's enlightenment education after all.

Mrs. Morgan is the nanny who has stayed the longest among many job-hopping nannies. Her cooking is not very delicious, and she doesn't take care of her brothers and sisters very carefully, but she gets along well with them and is as kind and casual as family.

She let clarice know that most fathers in the world are extensive. Relatively speaking, clarice's father is actually a gentleman enough, so he has no resentment. Most importantly, she made clarice realize that girls can do anything, and the key is to seize the opportunity. This is undoubtedly the best incentive for little girls in the era of general preference for sons at the beginning of the 20th century.

Although his father was unsmiling, when his younger brother and sister left for Cornwall, he gave Clary a pound of gold coins as a birthday present, which made Jancler excited. Before, she always thought that her birth caused her mother's death. Therefore, at a young age, she bears too much guilt, as if she were redundant. When she received a gift from her father, she suddenly realized that even though his father pretended never to care about them on the surface, he didn't love them in his heart. However, too much suffering in life has smoothed out this man's apparent tenderness.

No matter how bad the world is, there are always people who love you silently.

When she was a child, Peter often forced clarice to do her homework for herself, no matter she was not old enough to go to school. This invisibly cultivated clarice's self-study ability, and made her know to look for answers from thick encyclopedias at an early age.

One day, Peter brought a book with a gold ring pattern on it, which was about comets. Clarice has never seen anything so beautiful and novel. In her young mind, it seems to open a window into the unknown world. She secretly vowed to write such a book when she grew up (later, she did).

My brother Peter is very clever. When he graduated from high school, he made eight podium appearances. At the same time, I got an olive branch from Oxford University, and it was the kind of scholarship. Influenced by his brother, going to Oxford University became clarice's dream. After having the opportunity to visit the world's top universities, she strengthened her belief. In the end, her dream came true. Clarie graduated from Oxford University with a master's degree and engaged in the teaching career she loved.

The thirst for knowledge is like a seed, which can germinate quietly as long as it meets the right soil. Therefore, on the issue of education, parents do not need to interfere, as long as they give appropriate guidance according to their children's interests.

When I was a child, my kind and unruly cousin Rupert was the center of summer, the light on the water, the warmth in the wind, and the song of welcome home in the wilderness where bees buzzed.

Although Rupert grew up without his parents, he was very confident and excellent in boarding school. He can tell good stories and funny jokes, and he is also an excellent tennis player. The warmest thing is that he can always give Clara encouragement and affirmation.

Every beautiful summer these teenagers spend in Cornwall is enough for them to linger and never forget. Unfortunately, time can't stay forever, and teenagers have to keep growing.

Rupert joined the army when he grew up, experienced the baptism of blood and fire on the battlefield, and also passed by death. When he disappeared, it was not difficult to imagine the worries and worries of his family and friends. Fortunately, he survived.

But at the same time, Simon the Bone Boy is not so lucky. That tall, sensitive and delicate boy lost his precious life because of the war. Youth is like a beautiful flower, it has withered before it blooms. How can it not make people sigh?

But whether it's laughter or tears, these are all part of growth. Only after suffering can we know more about the preciousness and beauty of life. When you lose, you can get more. Life is a long river, rushing and jumping, all the way forward.

Although this is only a novel, and the background of the story is 100 years ago in Britain during World War I, the characters in the book are so vivid, just like the children around us. As long as there is love and dreams, we can finally reach the other side of the ideal.