When the book was famine, I was recommended by a friend to read the book like "Birds Fly to Your Mountain", I have not read the book for a long time, but these days I am interested in the whim, suddenly ignited the desire to read this book, I used the fragmented time to finally read the book, let's talk about my feelings!
American educationalists once said that education must be understood as a process of constant reconstruction of experience, and I think Tara. Westerf's path to education is a process of constant reconstruction of his past experience, gradually establishing his identity in the new value system, and gradually reshaping himself.
The book is a debut novel by a nascent American author and his autobiography, and is recommended by many bloggers Amway and Bill Gates. Written by her own experience, it tells how to change from a teenager who did not go to school for a day before the age of 16 to a doctor.
Tara was born in a big family, she is the youngest child in the family, there are six older brothers and sisters on it, in this large family of large population, the father is the absolute dominant, in their growth path, these brothers and sisters have different choices, different fates, some people are far away from the mountain, some people have flown away from the mountain, but they all have one thing in common, they all have a bad starting point and a family of origin.
After reading this book, it was a redefinition of education for me, and I realized the important role of education in a person's life. The determination and effort to stop her educated birth circumstances and to insist on being educated is the theme of this book. It is the author's struggle in the primitive environment and the process of self-redemption.
Family affection is a lifelong bondage of every blood, which everyone cannot get rid of, although the author is physically far away from her hometown and original family, but she has been living in the process of psychological struggle of self-guilt and self-doubt. But the father, whom the reader hates, still loves his children, and his love for the author is also very strong, remembering the father's words to his daughter, "If you are in America, if the end of the world I will drive to pick you up." 」 ”
There is nothing wrong with his love for his children What is wrong is the background of the big times, and the gap between ideas makes it difficult to distinguish between love and hate. The backward living system and the feudal ideas in people's bones. The title of the book is translated from a biblical phrase that flies to your mountain like a bird, i.e. the author of the book fled from life's Buck's Peak from an early age to find his own mountain like a bird, which is also in line with the theme of the Bible: escape and the search for the perfection of his new faith.
In fact, what is expressed in the narrative of the text is the author's understanding of love and education, Tara said that you can love a person but still choose to say goodbye to him, you can miss a person, but glad he did not appear in your world.
This is Tara's reflection after severing ties with her family, Tara grew up in a family of extreme faith in the Devil Cult, it can be said that her original family and its bad, in this family there is a grumpy, fierce, split personality brother, paranoid, authoritarian father, and a cowardly, submissive mother who ignores Tara when she suffers domestic violence.
Tara's father inflicted severe bruises on the family. Father's mind is imprisoned in personal empiricism, like a mountain that Tara can never walk out of. He refused to go to the hospital when he had experienced an explosion beyond recognition. Healing by her mother's meagre herbs, or even saying that it was a favor of God, etc., is enough to show that my father's mind was eroded by extreme dogma.
In that mountain, her whole faith came from his father, and his values came from the faith of the people in that mountain. His worldview comes more from his entire family. As the father's absurd beliefs begin to waver in the hearts of some children as they get older, is that what the world on the other side of the mountain looks like?
After a self-taught brother left home through his own efforts, Tara's faith in his heart began to slowly awaken. She decided to follow the example of her brother and leave home by teaching herself, when Tara was only sixteen years old and secretly taught herself while helping her father. After several months of struggle, he received the fruit, that is, the acceptance letter of Brigham Young University.
When she had the opportunity to go out of the mountains to a whole new world, his worldview and the mountain that was deeply rooted in his heart collapsed, when she first entered the campus at the age of 17, she did not know what the thesis was and even regarded Europe as a country, and in life he was incompatible with other people and the environment, she did not know that washing his hands after going to the toilet was the most basic rule, because her father told him at a very young age that cleanliness is hypocritical, only dirt is the most real, and after entering the campus, he shattered all his cognition and re-evaluated.
The formation of his new worldview his new faith put him on the opposite side of his family. Bring your own contradictions to the top. The conflict he faced was whether to return to that family or to reinvent his own values and beliefs in a mountain.
What's good about this book is that as the heroine of the book, she doesn't have to tell the legendary inspirational book of how she ended up becoming a successful Cambridge Ph.D. through her own efforts as a poor girl who has never read a book. Tara's metamorphosis took only ten years, but in the book, her achievements after entering Cambridge University are understated, and the emphasis is on his inner faith and struggles.
Only ten years have changed Tara's life, so will our next decade be able to break away from our original mountains and fly to bigger and better mountains? Through Tara's story, we can know that the original family can only determine your starting point, not where a person's end point is, and it is always you who can determine how far you can reach. It may be that the harm of the original family to a person will accompany a lifetime, but as long as you go through your own efforts, you can reap new life, reborn, and reinvent yourself.
Jack. London in "Martin. Eden says, "A man can transcend his environment if he has the willpower." "Just because there isn't a good start that people think is not a good outcome. Tara's fate gives each of us the courage to break the shackles of fate and know yourself, which is difficult but not invincible.