Orphans of the Mist by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, Britain's greatest novelist of the 19th century, the first socially critical novel.
Orphans of Wudu was written in the Victorian period of England, which was a period of rapid development in Britain and produced serious social problems. The wave of the Industrial Revolution is gushing, and technology and innovation have brought about a take-off for the national economy. But beneath this scene of prosperity, the poverty and misfortune of the working class, in order to earn a living, even women and children have to be employed in dark and dangerous factories and mines to sell coolies. Dickens exposed the sins of the bourgeois world of money and the struggles of the people at the bottom in the 19th century to the social life of the Victorian era in 19th century Britain.
The protagonist Oliver spent 9 years in an orphanage, and his background is that of a rich man. Sent to a funeral home as an apprentice. Unbearable hunger and humiliation forced Oliver to flee to the fog capital of London, where he was abducted into a den of thieves and forced to become a pickpocket as soon as he entered the city. The first time he took to the streets, he was mistaken for a thief, thanks to the guarantee of the bookstore owner. After coming out he was fortunate to be taken in by Mr. Brownlaw. This is the first stage of the novel, where Oliver is young but grew up in an orphanage, but is then squeezed as an apprentice, and his resistance is to escape.
The men of the den of thieves, fearing oliver's betrayal, used means to get him back. In order to rescue Oliver, Nancy, a pickpocket in the thief's den, despite the thieves' surveillance and threats, reported to Mr. Brownlaw and Miss Ross that Oliver was his long-sought grandson. However, because Nancy was followed when she reported the letter, she was eventually killed by the leader of the thief's den, and the police immediately surrounded and suppressed the thief's den. Oliver was finally able to reunite with his loved ones.
Some insensitive and heartless people in the world are probably indeed completely incorrigible villains
It contains the best and worst aspects of human nature; there are many colors that are ugly, and there are also some that are extremely beautiful. It is a contradiction, a heterogeneity, a phenomenon that seems impossible on the surface, but it is true.
The book is not very readable, and the translation of the translation leaves me speechless. But I think the reason why the plot is moving is that the protagonist's fate is turbulent, fighting against oppression and barbarism, and constantly struggling tenaciously in the dark world, even if he is shot and crawls in the rain until he is saved. I think the first paragraph is the darkness of society, and the second paragraph is the sinister nature of human nature.
But Dickens also left us with a glimmer of light, like the owner of a bookstore. Take Nancy, for example.
I've read the book "Thief Family" directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda in Japan, and I've seen this movie. It's not the same as this book. Dickens's novels are more complex in context and focus on greater contradictions, and the protagonist is an orphan and more universal to the society of the time. Social contradictions are mainly representative of the workers and the bourgeoisie.
The book "Thief Family" is interpreted from a small place, cleverly conceived, a family of five is superficially intimate, in fact, they are all strangers hard together, everyone has a secret actor, but in the end they live as a family.
After reading the book, do I have any satisfaction?
There are indeed tear-jerking places and characters in the story, and I think the reason why we read these famous works is not only to absorb the tension and rendering power of language, but also not just to read a complex and touching story. I think that the literati grasp the pen as a knife, not only to cut at what he thinks is a one-sided injustice and ugliness, but also a lot of good buried in it, even deep in thought. It is more about building an unknown world, both born out of reality and giving imagination, so that you can see and think of.
The mentality of a bystander to read a book may be too low a chance of being infected. And there are too many bystander mentalities in this society, and we hope to see colleagues accidentally make mistakes and secretly steal joy at work. We love to watch other people's hilarity, and it is precisely because it does not concern ourselves that we are very excited. The circle of friends in life is all for you to see, the flowers are full of praise life, I think your like friends opposite you are more willing to see your life is a mess.
In fact, the person you hate, the person you are willing to see his unlucky appearance, is more like a mirror, don't laugh at him now, because in the future you will slowly become like this.