The giver of stars —— Comment on Jojo moyers's novels

1937, a small mountain town in Kentucky, USA.

Alice Wright, a young British woman, married Bennett, a handsome and rich young man in Kentucky, USA, and fled the suffocating life in Britain with hope and came to a mountain city in Kentucky.

That was during the Great Depression.

After Alice settled in the town, she lived with her husband Bennett and her father-in-law who ran a coal mine business.

Bennett is a young man who has lost his mother since childhood. The background of a single-parent family and his father's overbearing personality have made him develop a cowardly character that relies on obedience and obeys all the arrangements made by his father for him.

This naturally alienated him from his wife, Alice, who had a unique opinion and personality.

Like many new immigrants, the oppressive and suffocating living atmosphere at home makes Alice long for the vitality of a new life and the recognition of a new social environment.

At the initiative of President franklin roosevelt's wife Eleanor, some people in her small town began to call for the organization of a female team as part of the new mobile library to provide books and transfer knowledge to residents living in the closed mountainous areas of Kentucky.

Alice signed up enthusiastically and joined the team visiting the library.

They rode through the mountains of Kentucky, walked through the breathtaking mountains, risked being shot by unreasonable mountain people, knocked on the door of families closed in the mountains because of poverty, sent knowledge and books to their homes, brought knowledge and warmth to the cold mountainous areas with women's flexibility, and changed the views of mountain people on reading and acquiring knowledge, as well as their attitudes towards life and life.

In the day-to-day book delivery activities, Margaret, the organizer of the small town library who rode side by side with Alice over the mountains, soon became Alice's best friend.

Margaret is a smart and independent Kentucky woman.

Her father is a criminal who abuses his wife and children and has a bad reputation in the local area.

Her father's domestic violence made her lose her mother, brother and sister, and she loved reading since childhood, relying on the nutrients and strength absorbed from books, she walked out of the dark background. It was books that gave her faith in life, and also created her strong and independent personality, and dared to challenge the local black forces.

Alice's bossy father-in-law was very unhappy when he heard about her friendship with Margaret. Coupled with the deep-rooted discrimination against women and the opposition to the librarian's book delivery activities, he asked Alice to leave the library and go home to be an honest wife. Her husband Bailey echoed her father's voice and asked Alice to go home.

Alice didn't give up the life she wanted.

Under her insistence, family conflicts escalated, and then developed into a domestic violence incident in which my father-in-law beat Alice.

Alice ran away from home and lived in Margaret's cabin.

Soon after, there was an accident in the coal mine in the mountain, and many miners were disabled or killed. However, the survivors of the mine disaster are struggling in a hard life because they can't get the compensation they deserve.

Bennett's father, who knows the cause of the accident, and the dark forces in the town represented by him are trying their best to cover up the truth of the mine disaster.

Margaret learned the truth through her boyfriend who worked in the coal mine, bravely stood up and fought against the dark forces in the town represented by Bennett's father, and was imprisoned for it.

At that critical moment, the librarians of the small town women's library led by Alice tried their best to support Margaret in prison.

In the mountainous areas of Kentucky, which are sometimes amazing in beauty and sometimes suffocating in cruelty, those seemingly weak female librarians still ride on horseback and bring books to people living in the mountainous areas.

Finally, their efforts awakened people in the mountains of Kentucky. With the support of the people in the town, the brave Alice and her female librarian rescued Margaret from prison and repelled the dark forces in the town together with the locals awakened by books and knowledge.

The Giver of the Stars is a historical novel written by Jojo moyers on 20 19.

This book is currently being adapted and made into a movie by Universal Pictures. This novel won the USA-Today 100 Best Reading Book Award and stayed on the best seller list in The New York Times for 33 weeks.

The author believes that the success of this novel lies in its complex contradictions, ups and downs, distinctive personality description of the characters in the novel, reflection of the authenticity of the historical era, and courage and positive energy to challenge the dark forces.

Just like every classic in history, a good work not only has fascinating stories and beautiful descriptions, but also its central idea and its soul.

Just as this novel, which was created on the basis of real historical stories, not only recorded that special historical era, but also showed people the influence of books and knowledge on people's life cognition through the occurrence and development of the story; Those who are awakened by knowledge do not show weakness, surrender or give up their ideals and beliefs and their determination to fight against the dark forces in their sufferings. The positive energy between the lines is like a torch, igniting a new fire of hope for all those who are struggling to find light in darkness and hardship.