Like a paradise tree, it grows into a towering tree from the concrete ground.

Let's start my first reading note with A Tree in Brooklyn.

I remember when I was reading this book, my sister sent me a message asking me what I was doing, so I sent her the cover of the book casually. She said that the title was wrong, and there should be many trees in Brooklyn. She is a lovely girl, she is right, but in the yard where Francie lives, there is a paradise tree. No matter where his seeds fall, a tree will grow and grow hard towards the sky. It is the only tree that can grow in concrete. Later, it was cut down and burned by the stump. They hoped that the tree would be burned together with the stump and turned into a bonfire, but the tree actually survived, and nothing could destroy it afterwards.

just like the little girl francie in the story.

The story happened in an Irish immigrant family on the eve of the American Civil War. Father Johnny doesn't have a regular job and works as a backup singer in a bar. Mother Katie is a cleaner. Mother prefers her younger brother, Nellie, and always leaves the good things to her younger brother. Her father loves Francie, but she often loses her mind and dies young because of alcoholism. In such a barren environment, the little girl has achieved spiritual and material sublimation in the whole growth process because of her spiritual abundance and love. This story tells a story of all kinds of emotional collision, which silently collides with the softness of people's hearts from time to time.

? I extracted some clips, let's feel it.

? Francie's mother, after the child was born, wanted to change the child's future life, so she asked her mother and got such an answer. "The secret is to read and write. You can read. You can find a good book and read a page to your child every day. Not a day falls, until the child can read by himself. At that time, children can read by themselves. I know this is the secret. " "There are two good books. A good Shakespeare book. It is said that the book has written all kinds of things in the world. All the beauty, all the wisdom and all the life that human beings know are recorded in this book. It is said that these stories can be put on the stage. I have never known anyone who has read this good book. But I heard from the landlord of my old country that some contents in this book can be sung. " "The other one is the Bible read by Protestants.

? This illiterate old man is wise. On the issue of Santa Claus, Katie asked her that Santa Claus does not exist. What if the child grows up and understands, and finds out that he lied at that time, he will be disappointed. "This is enlightenment. Enlighten yourself. Isn't that a good thing? It is also a good thing to believe wholeheartedly at first and then not believe. In this way, worldly desires becomes fuller and longer, and grows with it. When she grows up to be a woman, if someone is unkind to her and disappoints her, she will have experienced negligence, so that she will not be overwhelmed. When teaching children, don't forget that suffering is also a good thing. Suffering sharpens people and makes people full of character. "

Francie likes to smell coffee. She always likes to hold a coffee cup in one hand and enjoy the warmth of coffee. From time to time, she goes to smell the bitter and sweet taste and pours it directly into the sink after dinner. Her menstruation always scolded her for her waste, but her mother explained,

"Francie, like everyone else, can have a cup of coffee every meal. If she thinks it's better to pour it out than to drink it, she'll have to let it go. Personally, I think it's good for a family like us to waste something occasionally, and at least we can understand what it's like to have money on hand and not have to cobble together. "

The education of this family and the pattern of Katie, our mother, made Francie grow up on the right path and changed her destiny.

Although her father Johnny died young after drinking, his love for Francie was never absent.

Francie and her father are walking in the street. They see prostitutes soliciting guests and ask their father if she is a bad person.

"There are so many bad people in the world, and many people are just unlucky."

Francie shed tears when she saw someone stealing the pigeon, and felt that the poor pigeon had left her relatives. Her father comforted her: "Maybe they want to leave their loved ones. If it doesn't like the new flock, it will fly back to find the flock when the pigeon cage is opened. "

? This is also a story of love and healing. After his father's death, his mother unexpectedly found out that she was pregnant, and the family's livelihood was in trouble. After school started, only one of Francie and his younger brother Nelly could continue to go to school, while the other one had to take on the task of supporting the family. Mother insisted that Nellie continue to go to school, which hurt Francie who wanted to continue to go to high school. On the night when my mother gave birth, she was reconciled. She thought, "She doesn't love me as much as Ernie, but she needs me more. I think being needed is as good as being loved, maybe better." I want to tell little Francie that a person only needs you when he loves you.

? Her mother, her father, and her Cece menstruation are all full of characters created by Betty Smith, and each has his own life, each has his own feelings, and he can read different lives when he is free.

? I want to read a book. One of its sentences makes you gain something and helps you in a current dilemma, so it is successful. If you read it again and get another gain, then it is excellent.

? We end with one sentence.

? Living, struggling, loving our life, loving all the joys and sorrows that life presents, that is a realization. The fullness of life is always there and everyone can get it.

-Betty Smith