The development of the story is fascinating, and the narrative way of double-line expansion makes people want to see the convergence of the main lines. In the small town, the well-known Chase died mysteriously in the wetland, causing suspense clues. The experience of Kia, a wetland girl, facing life alone also deeply attracted my heart and worried me.
A 6-year-old child was abandoned by his mother, and his brothers and sisters left his alcoholic father one after another to get along with his often absent and temperamental father for 4 years. After my father left, I thought the warmth at first became more difficult. Hold up the courage to live alone, earn the first money to make a living, and face survival problems and growth experiences again and again.
Why did she only go to school for one day and eventually become a legend in the town? What supported her to create one miracle after another?
Next, I will share this reading experience with you from five aspects.
1, lonely.
2. The relationship between man and nature.
3. Human nature.
4. grow up.
5. Writing background
lonely
What is loneliness? Without friends, there can be no feelings and soul. Chia is lonely, abandoned since childhood and facing life alone.
The living environment created by parents should not only face poverty and poverty, but also bear the prejudice of small town residents. Slum life is despised by small town residents and even reduced to "wetland garbage". Such a living environment has been marginalized and can not be integrated into the lives of peers, so we can only hide in the distance and wait and see. .
Living alone, cooking for the first time; Doing housework for the first time; The first time I planted vegetables based on my mother's memory; Sailing alone for the first time; The first lust and sexual desire in adolescence; The first stage ... when you need company, you can only rely on yourself.
Lonely reality also ushered in a lonely inner world. My first love, I suddenly left. In the tangled and lonely days, only the plants and animals in the wetland accompanied me.
The relationship between man and nature
In depressed days, the ecology of wetlands became her best friend. Catch mussels and make her 10 years old. After her father left, she earned the first money to supply daily necessities.
In order to sell mussels to Lao tiao before others, they often get up at midnight. Once the mussel is harvested for a week, she will face hunger. I didn't complain about injustice, but I tried my best to start the business of smoked fish for my life.
Beautiful animal feathers and colorful shells in the wetland add a pleasant experience to her life. Observing the luminous frequency of fireflies and knowing when it is mating spectrum and when it is attacking spectrum makes her feel the wonder of the animal world, which is also a natural instinctive reaction.
Nature taught her the ability to survive and get supplies when she was hungry; When in danger, escaping and recording the animals and plants in the wetland ecology has become her most interested thing. By observing them, she learned the truth of love and conveyed her inner pain and feelings again and again through poetry.
She was 6-64 years old all her life, and published many books, unique and precious collections and records, which made her legendary life. She is in harmony with nature. Small animals see her and just regard her as a friend. They often feed the seagulls with coarse corn flour, and the scenery is still calm when they pass by the deer.
mankind
After her mother left, when she went shopping alone, the kind-hearted town clerk taught her the knowledge of coins, even at the expense of changing a few cents, and finally paid the bill herself.
The old couple's help from time to time can often help her resolve the difficulties in life. Refueling the boat, sending clothes to grow up, basic physical hygiene in adolescence.
The rich and the poor have left indelible prejudice on urban residents. Color discrimination and poverty make Kia marginalized, and people usually call her a "wetland girl".
Good and evil coexist in human nature, with endless charm.
Kia's first love Tate gave her a taste of being loved after her parents left. But at the same time it is so bitter. As a child, Tate still doesn't know how to plan his life. Secular prejudice and lack of courage to stick to his love, he left silently, hurting Kia again.
Chase's appearance made her want to seize this love and heal the trauma of her first love. In the face of Chase's promise to get married, he chose to deliver his first night. However, the news of Chase's engagement in the newspaper once again hurt this lonely soul.
Choosing to take revenge with what she learned in nature is a choice that Chase had to make after she got married, and it still hurts her. In the world of wetlands, you can only rely on yourself.
grow up
Chia's growth is not the perfection and arrangement of residence specimens and animal accumulation, but also her reconciliation with herself and her tolerance with her mother.
Since the story was abandoned by her mother, she has been living in the hopeless hope that her mother can appear. After a long time, this hope is also an anger and a resentment against my mother.
When my brother Jody came to see me, I knew my mother had to leave. In the case of father's long-term domestic violence, mother has been unconscious. After I left, I lived in longing for my children. After my death, the beauty in my heart merged into a painting and left it to them.
In the love with Chase, what I want is warmth, but what I get is betrayal, playing and injury. The counterattack led to her being tried by the court. During the trial, her loneliness and helplessness were in sharp contrast with the kind town residents. Beauty and goodness finally overcame prejudice.
Tate's love also made her slowly melt, regain her hope and spend the rest of her life.
Writing background
Delia Owens, a biologist and writer, has been engaged in animal research in Africa for many years. She is the co-founder of the Owens Wildlife Exchange Foundation in Sishan, Hiragi, Georgia, and the editor of Wildlife International magazine.
Professionals who have been deeply involved in a field for many years must be lonely. This loneliness also gives them more love and awe for their careers. The non-fiction books co-authored with her husband also let Delia, the first novelist, convey the significance of human growth, and at the same time added a lot of real and interesting materials, which are worth remembering.
If you are a suspense lover, full of love for life and nature, this is definitely a good book to broaden your horizons.