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I have heard of Ba Jin's Torrent trilogy for a long time, but I have not seen it because of various material reasons or mischievous wild life. Today will be borrowed from the library to read the "home", let me have a kind of urgent liberation desire.

By AaronPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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I have heard of Ba Jin's Torrent trilogy for a long time, but I have not seen it because of various material reasons or mischievous wild life. Today will be borrowed from the library to read the "home", let me have a kind of urgent liberation desire.

In a long time ago heard Ba Jin's "torrent" trilogy, but has been due to a variety of material reasons or play naughty wild did not see. Today will be borrowed from the library to read the "home", let me have a kind of urgent liberation desire.

I have never liked books about great houses in feudal times. I find them boring. But with one exception, home attracted me. "Home" is a book about the journey of a generation of young people during the dramatic and tremendous changes in Chinese society. Chueh - hsin, Chueh - min and Chueh - hui, representing three different personalities, came from four generations of the same family in the dark mansion.

Home, is the harbor of the soul, is the harbor of the heart. It is very familiar in our life, is also a kind, warm and harmonious. However, in Ba Jin's novel "family", Gao Juexin and his family are fighting with each other every day, in order to fight for the family property. They face their family with a smiling face, and turn around, they are gossiping about each other in secret.. . This home, is it still home? Chueh - hui has been carrying blood and passion, but he suffers from not expressing it incisively and vividly, just like a deep dry well, waiting for people to dig deeply.

The most fascinating things in the book are contradictions. In the main character, Chueh - hui and his group symbolized one end, and Chueh - Hsin and the Venerable Master Kao symbolized the other. As for Chueh - hui's personality, the third time has been obvious - naive, rebellious, passionate. He had just expressed his long-accumulated indignation in the summer of the warlord, and had quarreled with the Venerable Master at home. The sharp contrast between Chueh - hui's fierce and discontented and submissive forms of Chueh - hsin is a conflict between old and new ideas.

Many people died because of the darkness, but those who remain, those who lurk in the darkness and contradictions are clearly driven by a torrent. This torrent is real because of contradictions, precious because of contradictions, profound because of contradictions, and endowed with real intension because of contradictions -- I was moved again, because at that time, there was still more or less a small group of people seeking a new self in this torrent, making up for the lack of emotion and way of thinking. In the darkness and contradiction, those who are inspired by the torrent, some brave to protect their edges and corners of youth will not be erased, some even if erased but eventually found; However, the most important thing is that this torrent in essence teaches generation after generation noble and rational to explore all things and things, the pursuit of ideal, the pursuit of a new embodiment of self-worth. Because of the pursuit, because of the lofty, this torrent is forever moving generation after generation, never stop.. ... . Of course, in this torrent, there is also a tragedy like Ming Feng's. She is a little cowardly and self-abasement, and finally makes the choice of not yielding to the feudal etiquette and being loyal to herself and love.

After reading, my heart is still occupied by the protagonist, my heart is burning, my thoughts are tumbling, I am in grief and indignation, is in regret, is in sorrow! Because this feudal ritual buried how many young lives, let how many should enjoy the free love of the woman became buried. But on the other hand, I am also celebrating that it is the efforts of those advanced people who dare to look directly at the shortcomings of the feudal tradition and fight against the feudal forces that have led to today's freedom and liberation!

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