Reflections on The Thorn Birds

In this novel, I still like the relationship between Zhu Siting and Ryan. Although the battle line is very long, Zhu Siting also has the character of Cleary family and some * * * characteristics of her mother and grandmother, but Zhu Siting jumped out of the family's thinking and found her own happiness after all. And Meggie's two good friends, Anne and Devin Lu, are a good couple with common hobbies and live a dull and happy life. I was moved by what they did for Meggie and by their true love.

There is a legendary bird that sings only once in its life, but its song is sweeter than that of any creature in the world. Once it leaves the nest to look for the thorn tree, it won't stop until it is found. It nailed itself to the sharpest and longest thorn and sang softly among the branches. It transcends the pain of death and sings better than larks and nightingales. Farewell, at the cost of life! However, the whole world is listening with bated breath, and even the gods in the sky are smiling. Only by enduring great pain can we achieve perfection ... maybe this is a legend. "

When I first saw the preface of Thorn Birds, my heart was shocked. There are many books that have shocked my soul. What shocked me was not only the author's exquisite language, ingenious structure and exquisite story, but also the author's profound thinking about philosophical life, Wuthering Heights by Emily, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez, and Ordinary World by Lu Yao. However, this shock only occurred when I saw the preface of Colleen mccullough's The Thorn Birds. So many years later, when I applied for QQ, I did not hesitate to give myself the screen name of "Thorn Bird", and also used the opening introduction of the book "Thorn Bird" in the description of the home page.

Ralph, a man who dedicated his body and soul to God and pursued becoming a cardinal all his life, has long lost the right to be an ordinary person. He can't talk about love. He thinks he can. This is how he spent twenty-seven or eight years before he met Meggie. But at the moment he met Meggie, his heart changed greatly. Although Meggie was only a 9-year-old girl at that time, it lit Ralph's heart. Before Meggie grew up, they had a warm and beautiful time, because they didn't have to avoid suspicion at that time. But with the growth of Meggie, the pain and contradictions are increasing day by day. In the end, Ralph chose his career, his God and his church, and stayed away from Meggie, hoping that Meggie would have his own future and happiness. However, who would have thought that Meggie chose a husband just because he was like Ralph? Marriage is naturally unfortunate. Reunion under such circumstances, finally emotion prevailed over reason, Ralph succumbed to Meggie's wishes, and Meggie also stole Ralph, a son belonging to them, from God as he wished. Because she knew Ralph would never belong to him, and getting his son was a gift from God. From then on, Meggie left her husband and returned to her hometown with a pair of children. The last thing stolen will naturally be returned. They felt relieved when their only son left them forever. When Ralph was dying, his heart really let go of Meggie. On the other hand, Meggie will face a more lonely life in the future. Fortunately, she has always been a strong person.

When I was a child in junior high school, I couldn't care too much about the deep vicissitudes between the lines. Whether it is Paddy's implicit Wen Ya or Fiona's indifference and fragility; Whether it is Frank who longs for violence or Mrs Carson who is arrogant and acerbic; Whether it is the simple and persistent Danny or the eccentric and rational Justine. One flesh and blood, angular faces appear alternately, but I can't really feel the complex thoughts contained in their love-hate interweaving. Until now, I still can't fully understand the fate of this family. What I love most and remember most is the unforgettable love between Meggie and Father Ralph.

Someone once compared the thorn bird to a dead-leaf butterfly. Thorn bird, all the wonderful life is interpreted in the final swan song, which is short but gorgeous; Dead-leaf butterfly has spent its whole life in monotony and tranquility. Although it is monotonous, it is long. A completely different choice is doomed to a completely different fate. First, shorten life, just for the sake of instant glory; First, give up gorgeous, just to prolong life. And this book shows the significance of the existence of the thorn bird, even if it pays its life, it must dream of everything.

By Colleen. Mccullough painted a vast and magnificent picture for Australia from the beginning of 20th century to the end of 1960s and the beginning of 1970s, which was filled with the legendary family history of Cleary family. Vivid characterization, tortuous and beautiful plot development and unforgettable love course have deeply brought me into that legendary era and that beautiful land. Now, when I restart my memory, my original enthusiasm has cooled down, and I am less childish, more mature and rational. I can gradually look at this novel that once attracted me deeply from the perspective of life, and finally find it as rich as the New World. This is indeed a book full of charm and the essence of life, and it is worth reading.

The author's opening remarks about Thorn Birds are as follows: In the southern hemisphere, there is a bird 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, so that the thorns can pierce its own 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.

Maybe this passage is not only about Meggie, but there is no doubt that all her songs are painful. Because of the poverty at home, she had to bear more hardships early. She has only one doll (which was broken by her brother). She has no beautiful clothes. Because she was poor, she was scolded and even whipped by a nun at school. From the day she was born, pain was pierced into her life by thorns.

But her greatest pain is her feelings. Her person is excellent. No matter her quality or appearance, that person loves her equally. There is no obstacle between them except that he is a priest.

If you get married, you may still get divorced. 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? I don't know if it's true that a woman's greatest misfortune is to fall in love with someone she can't love, but Meggie's love for Ralph is really unfortunate. But can you say that she is wrong in love? He greeted her family after they set foot on Australian soil. He gave her father's love and brother's care. He took her to the market. He taught her to ride a horse. He cares about all her unhappiness and troubles. When she first met him, she was only ten years old. He accompanied her from girl to girl. She has no chance to love others, and others are so eclipsed in front of him.

But he is still a priest, and they will never get married. He left, and she married a man who she thought looked like him, a shearing worker. She followed the shearers to another country she couldn't adapt to, where she couldn't see her husband often, let alone have a home of her own, and didn't even have a penny on her. But no matter how hard it was, she put up with it. She doesn't want to leave. Although her husband was so strict with her, she persisted with her unique tenacity.

But Ralph came, and the crazy and sweet life in heaven changed everything. Meggie left her husband and returned to Drogheda with some of the things she finally got from Ralph. For Meggie, this is a happy time. When she was a little girl, she longed to be a mother. Her first child was born in an unpopular state. This is her husband's child, but this is Ralph's child, a child almost like Ralph. So tall, handsome, elegant and kind, how much she loves this child, even more than Ralph, but it is such a child who has embarked on the same road as her father. He wants to be a priest.

What she stole from God in all aspects returned to God, but it didn't stop there. Her son died. When he finally finished his eight-year college life, he took advantage of his vacation in Greece and was swallowed up by the sea to save two girls. Meggie was fifty-three years old at this time, but she endured the pain again and handled things calmly and rationally. It was only in order to find her son's body that she had to tell Ralph the secret she swore to keep. That son is yours, too

The last song of Thorn Birds was beautiful, but it was sung in the most painful time. While enduring the pain, it sang a song that made God smile. Is the song really that attractive? Or life itself is like this: if you can't stand it, then you can't survive, and when you stand it, life goes on.

Ralph's piety and suppression of ambition

Maybe some people don't like this priest. Admittedly, his personality is not perfect. Faced with13 million pounds, he betrayed Meggie and Cleary's family. Although he took good care of their lives afterwards, and although the family might fall into other traps without his takeover, he seized their property anyway.

Ralph's character is full of contradictions to some extent. He believes in God, and even if he breaks his oath, he dares to repent before God, although perhaps this confession may completely destroy him. From this point of view, he is devout. But on the other hand, his heart is full of utilitarianism. He is eager for promotion and upward mobility. It is for this goal that he abandoned Meggie. This seems a little incomprehensible to me, because I have always felt that piety and utility are incompatible. I can't imagine a monk receiving money while chanting. But no matter how I don't understand, this contradiction is unified on Ralph, and makes him fully alive: I am a priest, but at the same time, I am also a person. As a priest, he is devout, and as a man, he is ambitious. However, you can't have your cake and eat it, so this also doomed Ralph's pain.

When he met Meggie, he fell in love with the little girl at first sight. To be exact, he fell in love with her. This is not pedophilia. To be exact, Ralph fell in love with Meggie's feminine qualities: tenacity, patience, tolerance and elegance.

This kind of love is ignored by everyone, including Ralph himself, because Meggie is just a child, but he is disgusted with Meggie's growth and her growing body because he knows that when she grows up, he will leave.

To tell the truth, I like this role very much, because I have always liked repressed feelings and helpless pain. Ralph loves Meggie, but he can't say it. I can only draw her bedroom over and over again, and I can only express it in the way of a father to his daughter or a brother to his sister. As Meggie grew up, his pain deepened. Even when Meggie showed his love to him, he shook his head and refused. Meggie finally married someone else as she wished, and what she got was not imaginary redemption, but greater pain, which was caused by herself.

There has always been a joke that my girlfriend is married and the groom is not me. Abandoned people are painful, but if this abandonment is caused by themselves, what should we say and deserve it? Yes, he deserved it, but can we say that Ralph deserved it?

Maybe Ralph really deserved it. Who made him both ambitious and pious and fell in love with a woman? This feeling has been written off and on. At first, I thought I should write at least 10 thousand words, because it brought so many feelings and shaped such excellent characters. I really started writing, only to find that I couldn't find a sentence to express my feelings. Especially for Ralph, how can I tell his frustration and pain? Is it the fault of religion? I can simply boil down to a slogan that we have read a thousand times: Does religion suppress human nature? I can't, although I did think so at first: a priest can only pour all his feelings into a little girl because of his religion. But as the plot unfolds, I know this idea is too superficial.

Mary Carson's crazy love-hate relationship

In my opinion, in an excellent book, there must be several people who can't evaluate it. They hover between good and bad, and you can't even point out for sure that they are gray. On the surface, such people are the same as ordinary people, and we can't say whether it is good or bad, at least I can't. However, they are different from us. They are crazier than ordinary people. Their madness is often the key factor to promote the plot. Just like their personalities, their madness can't be defined.

Mary? Carson is crazy. She has no background or aristocratic background, but she has tens of millions of property when she is old. Although her success is largely due to a woman's talent, she won't achieve anything if she doesn't go all out.

History books only play down her success. She didn't appear many times, but she was impressive every time. I believe there is no age limit for love, but when I saw Mary in her sixties falling in love with Ralph at the age of twenty-eight, my eyes widened. She hates her age and follows Ralph and Maggie with envy. Finally, she took revenge. This revenge was carried out after her death, but it changed the lives of Ralph and Meggie. A will that only Ralph knows, as long as he publishes it, will soon have13 million pounds, a successful career and a place in the church. But if he hides it, then this13 million yuan still belongs to Meggie's family, which should have belonged to them.

Do you doubt that Satan loves Christ? I don't doubt it. This is a sentence in Mary's suicide note, put in brackets, so outrageous but so impressive.

Why does Satan always oppose Christ? Why does Satan always try to make Christ suffer? Because he loves him.

Mary loves Ralph, madly in love, so she wants him to suffer forever.

Writing here, I can't help but think of two paragraphs in Peking Man, which was extremely popular in new york ten years ago: If you love him, send him to new york, because it is heaven; If you hate him, send him to new york, because it's hell.

Naturally, I have never been to new york, and I don't know what it's like there. But from the analysis of the novel and the proletarian education I received since I was a child, this is a society where money is supreme (don't mention the current situation in China to me). In that era when money was used to speak, money was the source of everything, including pain and happiness.

Ralph got a lot of money and realized his dream, so he went to heaven; Ralph betrayed Meggie in order to get the money, and there was an eternal estrangement between them, so they went to hell.

Let the people I love taste heaven and hell. I don't know if this is because Mary hates more than love. All I know is that she succeeded. Although Meggie's family, including Meggie himself, don't think this is anything. But Ralph was still condemned by his conscience. He would rather they were angry with him than get back at him.

How to summarize Mary's madness? Maybe she's not crazy. Her only mistake is that she is still beating an active young heart in an old body.

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Perhaps, I should also talk about Fiona, who is calm and wise, Frank, who is rebellious and teased by fate, and Justine, who is eccentric, intelligent and seemingly strong but fragile, especially the latter. Her bold pride always makes me feel love and hate, but I can't say much about it.

Looking back at the home page again, I found that it was not even a post-reading feeling, but simply repeated the experience and personality of the characters.

I always think that the most painful feeling is helplessness, especially the helplessness you have caused yourself. This book also gives me this feeling. Your misfortune is caused by yourself, just like the thorn bird, it hurts because of the thorn it is looking for.

Perhaps, some people will say: how can you sing a song that even God laughs without pain? But don't forget, it was the last song before death. Just like human beings, there may be no joy without pain, but pain is always pain.

After reading the thorn bird, I read such a passage a long time ago, "There is a legendary bird that sings only once in its life, and its song is more beautiful than that of all creatures in the world. From the moment it left the nest, it was looking for the thorn tree until it got what it wanted. Then, it plunged into the longest and sharpest thorn, and let out the sound among the branches of that wild branch. At the dying moment, it transcended its own pain, and the song actually drowned the lark and the oriole. This is a beautiful song that ends with death. However, the whole dozen people listened quietly, and God smiled in the sky. Because the most beautiful things can only be exchanged for "the shock that lingers in my heart for a long time after reading." What a sad story, so tragic and regrettable, amazing. Fate gives infinite pain, but it can fight all the pain with one heart and finally reach the end of victory, but the greater price is the end of life. ...

This is a sad and sad love tragedy, but it is also an eternal eulogy of life.

The Thorn Birds is an Australian family novel. This book is divided into seven parts, each of which is centered on a person, but they are related. This book mainly focuses on the love entanglement between the heroine Meggie and pastor Ralph, and tells the story of three generations of Cleary family. As a beautiful woman, Meggie is naturally tough, and her most touching spiritual strength is also the power of a woman's permanent beauty-persistence. Lavr is almost Meggie's whole dream. He gave her the courage to know the world at first. His handsomeness, elegance, fatherly love, and his brother's care and companionship aroused her enthusiasm for life. However, the man she fell in love with gave himself to God, and she couldn't get it. This is Meggie's sharpest and longest thorn. Although Meggie was deeply hurt in her persistent pursuit of love, life has a complete meaning. After losing her beloved son, she finally found and really accepted her daughter from the bottom of her heart. God didn't take everything. Meggie was lonely and miserable because she couldn't get it. Only after Dane and Ralph died, her soul was truly liberated. Flowers bloom and fall, even if they wither, they will become spring mud. This endless cycle is endless, and this is the meaning of life.

When I was young, I wanted to be a hero like a thorn bird. Spend your whole life looking for the thorn tree and singing that charming song. There is only one song, which dies under a long spike, and makes blood blossom into a purplish rose. Don't be afraid of death, don't avoid death, and the short life is full of beauty without hesitation. Turn life into a permanent swan song. Want to sing, beg to sing, and die.

Now, I want to go to the extreme of seclusion like a dead butterfly. A hermit who lived in the mountains during the chaos of the world. Decisively trade beauty for life. There is no butterfly's delicate and flowery face, no butterfly's lithe and graceful dance, no butterfly's delicate and gorgeous wings like gauze, no butterfly's golden tentacles trembling in the breeze. It seems that a butterfly has nothing. It is such an innate gaunt costume. A butterfly that lost its beauty, in order to survive, gave up all its beauty, preferring to drift into a yellow lonely arc in the colorful wings of its companion and fall into a dead leaf without aesthetic feeling in the dancing of its companion.

I am nearly thirty, and my heart is forty. Although it has not become a dead leaf, it is also the kind that is lost in the crowd. Breathing the free air leisurely, I will miss the colorful figure; Will remember the swaying dance. After a sigh of disappointment, what belongs to me is still a bleak life. I am not pessimistic, even the most beautiful flowers will fade. When the delicate and flowery face passed away overnight, only that tranquility was left!

Recently, I fell in love with The Thorn Birds for no reason. I can't understand Meggie's obsession with Ralph. He is too selfish.

In fact, there are many lonely thorn birds in this world. I don't know where happiness is. Can only be confused to find, countless times to find, countless times to wait, but never wait for their own happiness, and finally sad.

As for its meaning, I can't express it. I just think it's beautiful. It's beautiful.

Ke Xu Xu doesn't like this book very much. She always likes reading some magazines. So, when she happily took it away, she returned it to me with a sad face and complained, "It's all scenery. Moreover, it is too thick! " I'm not surprised. Xu Xu is like this. She can't stick to the end and give up halfway, but that's what makes her lovely. I like her innocence and liveliness. Unlike me, she always looks withdrawn, and only Xu Xu knows this. That's why I became friends with her. In fact, I just can't integrate into the class and isolate myself from my classmates with a film. This is Xu Xu's evaluation of me.

Maybe it's time to think about your inaccessible personality. After all, sometimes I feel lonely and helpless.

Xu Xu's other friends also whispered to her, "Don't be with Yan Xunyi if you are all right. She is a little dark. " Ke Xuxu always shakes his head and says, "You don't know her."

Xu Xu is really my good friend, and will never abandon me as a good friend because of other people's gossip!

A group of thorn birds have been singing, thorns pierced their chests, blood watered the most beautiful flowers, and singing became the most beautiful life swan song. Thorn birds tell us with songs that true love and all good things need to be exchanged at unimaginable prices.

Isn't it a wonderful thing to exchange for true love and beauty at an unimaginable price? But in life, there may be more compromises, pandering and betrayals, so there is an ordinary life and boring customs. I like "When You Are Old" and "Once Slow" in this year's Spring Festival Evening. I like the slowness of loving someone all my life. I like the warmth of wrinkles and white hair-these don't need the bitterness of thorns piercing my chest, but I still need a persistent heart for love and beauty. I believe that in the noisy secular life, there must be thorn birds singing with their lives, but our blinded hearts can't hear her voice.

The thorn bird feels right after reading model essay 8, the ability to love. Three women, three generations, are brave to be themselves in the choice of love, but they are so stupid and clumsy in the ability to love. Fiona turned her love for her lover into a preference for Frank, Meggie turned her love for Ralph into a preference for Dane, and Justine's love for Reina has been dodging and refusing to admit it.

It is the tragedy of life that shapes Fiona's ability to love, arouses her from memories and turns it into comfort. It was Reina's visit that made Meggie realize her neglect of Justin's inner world and tried to comfort her daughter and let her be herself. It was her mother's letter that made Zhu Siting dispel her inner remorse, boldly expressed her love and accepted it. She really walked out of Droheda Ranch and became a flesh-and-blood person in the rich world. And the whole Drogheda, including Fiona and Meggie, will become a yellow scroll of history, rolled up, shelved or burned.

Thorn birds haven't read all night for a long time.

It seems that when I first watched Song of Youth in high school, I was excited by Lin's letter after Lu's death, but I didn't cry. Later, I watched the sequels "Song of Wheat Straw" and "Song of Huaying" and thought the scenery was great. I used to watch Bone Finger all night before I went to graduate school, and I was too scared to sleep.

Tonight, there is no doubt that for the first time in a year, I can't sleep for a book.

The Thorn Birds, the only book recommended by someone who accepted Cupid's sword in college, is a pity. I neglected the sword of Cupid and The Thorn Birds. In the confusion of celibacy, I read The Thorn Birds, but I don't know where my sword is.

As a result, reading aggravated the desolation of life.

The real ending is so heartbreaking. However, age is not as high as it used to be.

I am old, but that was many years ago.

The theme of The Thorn Birds is also eternal: love and fate. How is love entangled in the ups and downs of fate? What are the traces of fate in the sad and happy love? Does love dominate fate, or does fate dominate love? The legend of the thorn bird was told easily. Sadness is pervasive, but perhaps sadness is not what the legend wants to express. From Maggie and Ralph's love entanglement across time and space, we may learn something different. About love, but also about fate.

Positive tragedy is a subtle form. It is by no means the kind where beautiful things are combined and then conflict with each other. But when they finally get together, they often live on thin ice because of external pressure or internal condemnation. Finally, this kind of pressure caused by the environment or some special reason is actually or abstractly separated, such as Romeo and Juliet, Rhett and Scarlett. The protagonist bears the heavy or playful characteristics, leaving readers with endless smiles from God. It is best to put an emotion in memory or imagination to taste, and at the same time let it live in the present in a state of being cared for. A little improper physical or physical contact is blasphemy. It is romantic to enjoy youth with others. I hope that a person will grow old slowly, and so will love. If Maggie and Ralph are not combined, the taste of tragedy will be diluted, and people will still remain absolutely mysterious about what they expect before they die, and it does have a faint lilac-like sadness! Unfortunately, it is sour, but beauty is pleasing. This is the charm of tragedy.

Ralph's love for Meggie stems from an intuition, but this feeling dominates his every move. It's hard to say who is better after love at first sight or rational thinking, but just like Tantric Zen in Buddhism, it finally comes to fruition.

Because of the unique contribution of tragedy in the literary palace, the hero, with his tragic spirit, and the writer, with his knife and pen, went straight into people's souls, awakened the softest part of human nature that had fallen asleep or was about to fall asleep, thus having a self-correcting reference, moistening things silently, nourishing people's desolate or about to lose spiritual home, and making people elegant. The nobility of tragedy lies in perfecting the beauty of human beings with its sadness!

-Ralph died in McKee's arms, as well as the description of his brother who returned after the war and the death arrangements of the characters in the article. The author's humanized and personalized colors are vivid on the paper, and he writes down his feelings when he is moved. He is often touched, learn to be grateful and make himself a "person"!