A rare tree full of thorns. Tell me about it.

Is The Thorn Birds Colleen? Mccullough's first novel, 1977, received a sensation as soon as it came out.

The story begins in the early 20th century. At the call of your wife, Mary Carson, he moved from New Zealand to Drogheda Ranch in Australia with his wife, Fiona, and seven children, and arrived at Paddy's only surviving grandson. The talented actress Zhu Siting determined her life path and love destination in a distant foreign land, telling the whole story of three generations' life experiences and emotional experiences in Cleary, the most important of which were Paddy's only daughters Meggie and Father Ralph.

However, in addition to the intricate story itself, there is also a magnificent picture of central Australia that is decorated in colorful colors. The endless wasteland filled with dust, kangaroos jumping in droves, countless birds, slowly migrating cattle and sheep, ubiquitous and dense flies, and a huge manor with flowers blooming no matter how severe the drought is ... Drogheda has made people of Cleary family who have lived there for many years feel an attachment that they can't give up, and also let readers gallop in the imaginary vast Yuan Ye with words. Without deep affection for that land, it is difficult to describe the local customs there so delicately and vividly. In the author's pen, it seems that you can hear the barking of sheepdogs again and again, and the humming of birds ..... This is a land that people love and hate. In this land, a lonely soul was buried and a feeling of affection was nurtured.

Now we must tell the story of Ralph and Meggie. Ralph was the first person Meggie met in Drogheda when he was ten years old. Meggie is weak, neglected, sensitive and strong, which makes Ralph feel pity. From then on, Meggie became the most important person in Ralph's mind except God. He loves young Meggie, because such love makes him feel no guilt. He cared about Meggie's growth and her education, and watched Meggie grow from a girl to a girl as beautiful as flowers and jade day by day. Poor simple Meggie, because of her mother's negligence, thought she had an incurable disease when menarche came. She had to turn to her God Ralph. Meggie's love for Ralph has been persistent since he was young. She can't love other men except Ralph. Ralph, on the other hand, watched Meggie grow up in pain, because he couldn't love her as he used to, that is to say, he couldn't have the kind of feelings that men have for women. He is a priest. Therefore, he chose to accept Mary's last gift, climbed to the top of the world from then on, and finally realized his dream of becoming a prominent cardinal. Mary's death was a turning point in the relationship between Ralph and Meggie. Soon after, Ralph left Drogheda and moved from Sydney to Rome, where he was promoted step by step. The thoughts of Meggie are gnawing at his soul all the time, making him constantly fight against God. On the other hand, Meggie spent several years in the torment of missing, and at the age of 23, she married far away. She didn't give Ralph any information, and she wanted to forget him completely from the bottom of her heart.

However, if Meggie really got everything she longed for, Ralph might just become a beautiful dream of her childhood and girlhood. Meggie is unfortunate. Although she has become Mrs. O 'Neill, she still has no home. Neither of the two men in his life wants her. Ralph rushed to Meggie's side during childbirth and gave her comfort. He held Zhu Siting as a baby, which should be his and Meggie's child! At the moment, Meggie has no tenderness for Luke's children, which makes Ralph very painful. When he told Meggie affectionately that he still cherished the rose Meggie gave him, saying that Meggie was his rose, the image of the most beautiful person in his life and the best memory, Meggie was deeply hurt. Ralph can't give her everything she wants, she is just an image and memory of him! Meggie said very sharp words to Ralph and kicked him out. Well, if you get married, you may get a divorce. If you are poor, you may be able to overcome it. If you don't love her, you may be able to work hard. But he is a priest. How can she take him away from God? However, Meggie did it. On an isolated island called matlock, Meggie originally planned to calm down and think about some problems, sort out and adjust his mentality, and then go to Luke after he came back to try to improve relations and live a good future. However, Ralph appeared again. In front of him, all Meggie's beliefs fell apart in an instant. Those days were the happiest days in Meggie's life, and Ralph gave her everything. Although Ralph will eventually leave Meggie, she is no longer sad and desperate, because she "stole" a part of Ralph from God-she was pregnant with Ralph's child. With this secret, she bid farewell to Muller and Anne, bid farewell to Luke, and returned to Drogheda, who was haunted by dreams. In her hometown, she gave birth to her son Dane, who inherited all Ralph's excellent children. Meggie threw herself at Dane, but she almost turned a blind eye to Justine, just as Fei turned a blind eye to her.

Meggie, a thorn bird, suffered all her life for a beautiful relationship. Although Dane, who was stolen from God, gave her all hope, in the end, God called him back. Before that, Meggie cruelly told Ralph all the secrets. In his later years, Ralph couldn't bear such a strong blow. After returning to Drogheda to preside over his son's funeral, he passed away with great pain and guilt.

If the story ends here, people will feel depressed and sad. Fortunately, the author gave us hope. Zhu Siting, the only descendant of the third generation of Cleary family, is Dane's sister. Although she has lived in her mother's cold eyes since childhood, she has deep feelings for her brother. She is eccentric, self-enclosed and quite independent. As an adult, she left her hometown to study acting in London and became an excellent dramatic actress.

After Dane's death, Justine has been blaming herself because she played her brother's protector since she was a child, but this time, she let her brother go to Greece alone. She had promised to go with him, but she changed her mind because she had an appointment with her lover Ryan. She wasn't with Dane when he was killed. In order to punish herself, she decided to quit her job in the theater, bid farewell to Rennes, and return to Drogheda to accompany her mother in order to achieve inner peace. Only here did I see Meggie's maternal love for Justin. She has lost her son and can't lose her daughter again. She can't let her tragedy happen to her daughter again. She wrote a long letter to Justine, telling her that she didn't need her daughter to give herself to her mother like a sacrifice. She should belong to herself, to the person she loves. "Dion's light is lost forever, and your fire is still burning", which is the most important reason to support the people of Drogheda to live.

Justine became Mrs Reina Maureen Hassan. She didn't give up her career and had a beautiful love. The era of Drogheda is coming to an end. The last paragraph of the article reads: "Birds have thorns on their chests. It follows an unchangeable law. She was stabbed by something whose name was unknown, driven away and died in singing. At the moment when the thorn pierced, she didn't realize that death was coming. She sang and sang until her life ran out, and she couldn't sing another note. However, when we stab the thorn into our chest, we will know. We know very well. However, we still have to do this. We still put thorns in our chests. "

I like this book very much, and I like its characters. Although everyone has his own defects, they are not perfect. Paddy, who is honest and gentle, Frank, who is violent, Mary, who is acerbic and arrogant, Meggie, who is weak in appearance and stubborn in heart and full of persistent pursuit of love, and Ralph, who can't stop loving and lives in contradiction and pain all his life, can be vividly seen. I like the wonderful dialogue of the characters in the book, the delicate description of inner activities and the exquisite description of the environment. I like the ending. Seeing the sincere communication between Meggie and Justine, seeing Justine finally wearing a sacred wedding dress, and seeing the warmth of affection, friendship and love between Meggie and Justine, three generations of Filipino women, I can't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

There is a bird in the southern hemisphere, whose song is more beautiful than all the creatures in the world, but it can only sing if it finds a thorn tree and falls on a branch full of thorns and lets the thorns pierce its body. From the moment it left the nest, it began its journey to find the thorn tree, until it got its wish and found that the thorn tree was covered with thorns as sharp as needles. At this time, it will fall, and you should choose the sharpest, sharpest and longest thorn. Its body was pricked by a sharp thorn, the pain was unbearable, and its life was dying. It began to sing, which made all the singing birds feel ashamed. Larks and nightingales, who have always claimed to be the king of songs, are also eclipsed in front of singing. Soon, the blood of the thorn bird ran out, and the most beautiful song came to an abrupt end. However, the whole world is listening quietly, and God is smiling in the sky. All the people and birds who heard this song are paying their last respects to the Thorn Birds, because we all know that the best things can only be bought with deep pain and great innovation. This is the Thorn Birds: just like the tragic fate of Thorn Birds, they are brave.