The Feeling of Hua Xu Yin
The destiny is really great, like the vine, although it is winding, still grows and then composes the trajectory of life. Those disaster which is fateful can't be gotten rid of, or escaped from, only because the evil is the demon of heart, born with us.
When I finished the book, there was no sadness or happiness in my emotion. I just felt numb for four stories. As The Sorrows of Young Werther says, "Whoever is a girl does not want to be loved, and whoever is a boy does not want to be royal to his lover", the book mainly talks about love stories about the young in ancient dynasty that is just created by the writer.
Song Ning's love never started, but has already ended. The fantastic emotion flowered well, however, withered because of misunderstanding. Song Ning and Shen An are both sacrifices to the fate. One loved very much but couldn't get what she wanted, ridiculously, the other one had to love. There is no doubt that Song regarded Shen as her life, even more than her life. I always thought when I read this story, can't it be no isunderstanding? Song's stubbornness, and Shen's obstinacy has already decided that it was no result of their marriage.
Ying Ge's tragedy was due to Rong Xun's lie to himself. On another hand, it couldn't considered as a tragedy. What you want, what you get, means nothing bad. Regardless of the past, taking account the present and future is also a good thing. I admire Ying Ge most all over the stories. Loving from a to z, hating throughly, giving up decisively, Ying was a free and easy girl as I recall. Rong Yuan was her final insistence. No matter heaven or hell, she would follow Rong Yuan as she want.If there was no reason to be alive, death was also a nice choice. Henceforth, where you are, where I will go, whether from the horizon of the heaven to end of earth or from the sky to the subterranean.
If there is "love maniac" in the world, Qing Jiujiu should be one of them. Neither she nor Gong Yifei was wrong. All the things were resulted from the lie and retaliation. As for Qing Jiujiu, Gong Yifei was the only color making sense to her. What she has done were only used to help him. Even though died, she tried her best to seek for a way to company Gong Yifei just because of the obsession.
And the forth story is about a liberating woman too, however, she didn't managed to give up loving after all. She made me heartache.You let me know what is the love, both happiness and pain of it. For a soul, it should be a meaningful and romantic experience.
What looks bad usually is not really tragic. The fate of such arrangement has its own reasons. How to know it isn't the best outcome?
A guy who was too rational can hardly learn how to love.
In the final analysis, those were only several legend of romance. We always has other things to do.
On Theme of The Loons
The Loons, one of the well-known fictions of Margaret Laurence, portrays the living conditions of the protagonist, Piquette Tonnerre, who is an Indian girl. On the other hand, we can find that the loons are mentioned several times in the story, which echoes the title. As far as I am concerned, the loons and the growth of Piquette serve as two clues from which two branch themes are expressed respectively.
Piquette is a plain-looking girl coming from a humble family. She has to do family chores and cannot attend school regularly. She limps because of tuberculosis of the bone. The father of the narrator Vanessa is the doctor of Piquette. He took Piquette with the families to Diamond Lake for a vacation because of sympathy for her. Piquette was an unsociable and mocking girl and sensitive to the topic of woods and loons mentioned by Vanessa. During the vacation they remained ill at ease with each other. Four years later Vanessa got startled at Piquette’s great change when meeting her occasionally n a café. She became much more beautiful and opener than before but seemed to being living a disordered life. She blew about her approaching marriage with her handsome boy friend. In
the end when Vanessa because a college student Piquette died with her children in a fire.
From the contrast of the different lives of the two girls we can find the huge gap between the minorities and the mainstream of Canadian society. Indians were the aborigines of the Continent of North America before Europeans immigrating here and driving them away to secluded areas. So Indians remain discriminated against by the white-dominated society. They are of humble status and cannot adapt themselves to the mainstream culture. Piquette is just a representative of those present living condtions of them.
In the story the narrator tells us about her two experiences of listening the cry of loons. Once during the vacation Vanessa listened to them with her father. The crying of the loons was described as ululating, plaintive and mocking. She went to the Diamond Lake again after hearing about the death of Piquette. However, the loons disappeared because more cottages were built and more people came in. The habitats of the loons were destroyed by human beings gradually and they might die out sooner and lataer.
The loons are the symbol of nature as well as ecosystem, and the extinction of loons reflects the ecological crisis caused in the process of human civilization as well as the predatory exploitation human beings have exerted to nature.
The author conveys great concern for the harmonious coexistence of human beings with nature and equality between people of different races, sexes or classes by criticizing the relationship of dominating and being dominated between human beings and nature as well as their fellows. What the loons and Piquette have in common is that they represent the culture and civilization of minorities. In the modern society of multiculturalism different kinds of cultures and different races are treated unequally. To reach the goal of harmonious development we human beings have to protect and respect nature and minority groups. This is just what the author wants to convey to us.