The Other Half That Disappeared. It's a story about choice. This is more than just a story of choice.
The twin sisters each chose a path, and who was right and who was wrong in their choice?
This novel reminds me of a Korean drama "Hear Your Voice" (hereinafter referred to as "Listening").
Listening has a similar choice. The heroine and her girlfriend witness a murder on the road, and when the court needs them to testify, the heroine chooses to bravely go in, while the girlfriend chooses to escape, and their lives have been forked since then. Many years later, they met again and finally spoke their hearts. The heroine has always regretted her choice, because this choice has made her live in fear, worried about the revenge of the prisoner; the girlfriend said that all these years, she has been living in regret, because she can't live her conscience. They all saw the other half of their disappearance, and they had chosen the path they had not chosen, and they would also have their own troubles, but the troubles had changed their form. The two girls eventually reconcile, reconcile with themselves, reconcile with the world, reconcile with choice.
Let's go back to the novel The Other Half of The Vanishing And talk about the important choices in it. Twin sisters Desilei and Stella belong to Mallard, a small town dominated by light-colored races. The so-called light-colored race is actually a mixture of black and white people, but their skin color is closer to that of white people, and it is almost impossible to see from the appearance. In this very small town, everyone knows everyone's bottom line, everyone's past is picturesque, everyone's future is even clear and picturesque, as long as life does not move here, the trajectory of life seems to have been predestined. In the Swedish picture book "When I Fly Like a Bird to My Dream", the heroine of the famous female painter Bertha Hanson, when she was young, learned to paint, the teacher only gave her two things, one is a carrot with a well-drawn outline, the same is an orange-red color.
If our twins continue to live in this town, their lives will be obvious, just holding orange-red filling into the outline of the already drawn carrot. The two sisters were not reconciled, so they fled the town at the age of 16, and also escaped their original fate. It was their first choice. It is also a choice that they will not regret no matter what kind of road they take in the future, no matter what kind of life they will live in the future, the choice is colorful, it is better than choosing to remain unchanged at a glance.
Desilei chose to marry a black lover she met and gave birth to the darkest child in her mother's eyes.
Stella became a "little man who borrowed things", and everything she had could not tell others the source, even her snow-white daughter, she had never really made love to her daughter, because the heart had to be paid for by real people, and she seemed to have none.
The two sisters were not satisfied with their choices, and the other's choices did not satisfy them. Here, similar to "Listening", the two alternative paths are actually not complete. "Listening" is because the law does not punish the evil enough, and "Disappearing The Other Half" is because the social environment has not completely changed. In the environment of these two groups of girls, there is actually no best answer.
Fortunately, the world is changing. At the end of "Listening", there is finally an environment in which good and evil will eventually be rewarded. In "The Other Half That Disappeared", the daughters of the two sisters have made great progress in the living environment compared with their mother's generation.