Movie: Stormy Harvard Road

Although Liz was born in the slums, but still very happy, her mother is very healthy, yes, she also likes it, the scene of mother and daughter playing on the grass with cardboard, she will never forget for the rest of her life, but DP changed everything, when she was eight years old, her mother was drunk, almost blind, suffered from intermittent mental illness, often frantically robbed Liz and her sister of social welfare, knelt down to beg them, every time I took the money, mom would show a gentle and sweet smile, this smile was once the most familiar to Liz, what she wanted most now, Dad is smart, he always gets the right answers in TV quiz shows, completely incompetent, only brings trouble, the two sisters go hungry every day, have to eat ice cubes and toothpaste, pick up food in the trash can, Mom is very sick, they are forcibly taken away by the police every other day, people around you look at the family like monkeys, only Liz knows her pain, she also wants to be a good mother, but she has nothing to give, Liz doesn't want to go to school because the house is messy, the bathtub is full of sewage, She couldn't take a bath at all, it stinked everywhere, there were lice in her hair, because there was a child in her hair, the students didn't like her, thought she was a child with a strange smell, the teacher didn't want her to take the exam, I think I came to school three times a month, I couldn't understand the topic at all, Liz relied on the encyclopedia of her neighbor's wife picking up garbage, learned a lot of knowledge, got 100 points on the exam, it was possible to become a principal, the teacher admired her very much, she was asked to come to school every day, otherwise, You will call the management department, Liz does not dare to say what she really thinks, she can not go to school every day like a normal person, Mom was discharged, I lost a lot of weight and was depressed, when she happily showed her the report card, what awaited her was a sunny thunderbolt, Mom had AIDS and had to leave Dad, leave home, otherwise, you would never quit D, wanted to take the sisters to live with my grandparents, but Liz was well aware that Grandpa's domestic violence not only violated his mother's sister, she didn't want to go to that beast, Prefer to stay at home and soak the food you pick up in cold water every day because she didn't go to school, the house was a mess, the social worker was forced to intervene and send her to the shelter, Dad didn't stop before he left, I just looked at it helplessly, the shelter was full of bad girls, fighting was the norm, Liz was often bullied, she still refused to go to school, after living in this environment for seven years, until she was 15 years old, she just came out of the shelter, I met my mother at my grandfather's house, she still didn't quit DP, time is running out, The little apartment at home was recycled, because she couldn't afford to pay the rent, Dad also went to the shelter, now I can hang out on the street with Mom, drink coffee and eat fast food, this is already the happiest time for Liz, she sneaked back to her former home, there was nothing inside, the family was completely separated, she was forced to say goodbye to the past, the only place to go now is school, she learned to take a bath, no longer smell bad, you can also dress like a normal person, I know Chris, I have the same family problems of the little friend, I also lived in my grandfather's house, while taking care of my mother, while going to school, once, when I was taking my friends home for the night, I discovered a terrible fact that my mother had been violated by my grandfather when she was a child, which made Chris feel the same way, she also had an animal dad, I managed to escape, and now mom is going back to dad, speaking of excitement, my cigarette butts burned directly into my hands, Liz wanted her to stay here, but my grandpa threw me out of the house, to him, they are all garbage, It is impossible to accept more people, 15-year-old Liz and Chris, who started living on the streets, sleeping in the subway station, picking up garbage, begging on the street, going to the supermarket to steal food, only a few punk friends willing to take her in, most of them are unfortunate people, day after day, living in a world without hope and dreams, even so, when people around me are smoking and drinking and fighting, she is always quietly reading next to her, she will still miss her mother, when Grandpa is not there, come back to secretly take care of her, Her health was getting worse and worse, he died soon after, Liz could only run to the roof, crying helplessly in the rain, at the time of burial, no priest, no ceremony, no tombstone, only a few people attended the funeral, Mom put it in a small wooden box, or Chris wrote her name on it, as a free cemetery, a week later, Mom could not find it again, Liz lay quietly on the coffin, looking back, the cruelty of life always overwhelmed everything, in the wandering days, Liz spent all day in a daze, Unwilling to open her eyes to see reality, the death of my mother became a turning point in her life, she didn't want to be like her mother, she didn't want to be a fool anymore, she was going to school, but she didn't go back to slum school, but a person who applied for a charity high school, I did well in the provisional entrance exam, in the interview, she confessed her origins, she used to be full of hope, her mother would be fine, take good care of her, the family will be reunited again, but her mother's death, slapped her hard, she never took care of her , Liz has been taking care of her since she was a child, she is gone now, it is time to take care of herself, she wants to live forever in love for her mother, she knows that her world is surrounded by a shell, there is a better world outside the shell, she can see everyone in the world, but it cannot be touched, she must work harder and push herself into the world outside the shell, so we need a chance to get out of the predicament, Liz's honesty and wisdom, touched the teacher, she was recognized as an exception, before entering the school needs the signature of the guardian, Liz came to the shelter and found her crazy dad, I finally finished school, Dad was actually very smart, always find novel ideas, Liz's intelligence and desire to learn were affected by him, but now he and his mother suffer from the same disease, I am dying, Liz said "I love your dad", Dad said, don't love me, is a waste of energy, go to school. I messed up, but you can do it, Liz did not live up to this encouragement, study well, do homework in the office every day until late at night, she is 17 years old, there is no time to waste, set herself to complete 10 courses a year, work to earn living expenses, sleep on the 24-hour subway at night, so she can always get to school early, the teacher also gave her a lot of encouragement, let her lose confidence, Chris found her again, Liz wanted to take her to school, just arrived at school, the teacher told her a good news, The first ten students of the school will be sent to Boston to visit Harvard University. She was the first place in the school, Liz couldn't believe it, even her best friend Chris told her that they were just garbage in this world, everyone said that when they grew up, they would only fall into the dust, how can they be compared with college, on the Harvard campus, Liz saw a very different life from herself and began to think about what is wrong with you, she tried her best, don't let yourself fall to the bottom of society, if you work hard, will you be closer to that shell, the teacher told her that this is a wish, not impossible, She began to aspire to go to Harvard, not on impulse, but to do as much as I could, I completed four years of courses in two years, in addition to excellent grades, I also looked for scholarships from various institutions, only to find a scholarship from the New York Times so that she could finish college, she seized the opportunity again, wrote an article four months later, on my 18th birthday, she sent that letter and got an interview to apply for a scholarship, that day, she didn't even have decent clothes to wear, I had to borrow my sister's coat, She also likes to go to school, but her mother sold her clothes, she can't go up, now my sister may also be blind, just like my mother, the sisters hugged each other a little, countless sadness in my heart, I met Chris at the door, she was kicked out of the orphanage, wanted to continue wandering with Liz, now, she has grown into an independent and confident girl, I have a rare innocence and persistence, do not want to go back to the past, she wants to sit on an equal footing with others, instead of inferiority, go to Harvard to get a good education, read all the good books, She had to succeed, she had no choice, and finally touched the judges, and I got into Harvard, got a job at the New York Times, and on the day of the award, the reporter asked her if she felt sorry for her past wandering life. She replied: "That was part of my life and I feel lucky for it because those homeless experiences have left all the security in my heart abandoned, so I was forced to keep going, there was no way back, I will try my best to see what happens, if you can change anything, what you will do, I am willing to return all my luck later, let my family recover, Liz's life is at this moment, has changed forever, she has her own apartment, ended her wandering life, received a Scholarship from The New York Times, The average score was close to full marks, she was admitted to Harvard University in the fall of 2000, and later, in order to take care of her sick father, she left Harvard and chose to study at Columbia University near my father, after my father's death, returned to Harvard in 2008 to get a master's degree in psychology, to continue her studies, and now Liz's main job in addition to going to school is to give speeches to teenagers, tell children how to resist the temptation of drugs, encourage them not to be intimidated by difficulties, do not use the hardships of childhood as an excuse to go with the flow, she has won many awards Under her influence, when I found a stable job, they were still good friends, my sister was able to continue her studies, and after graduating from college, he succeeded in becoming a teacher, and it can be seen that an excellent person will inevitably affect the surrounding environment and drive others to become better.