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Ralph resolutely gave a clear choice, facing his beloved Meggie, he chose the right, there must be gain and loss, and the price that comes with it is that they can never have a legal union with Meggie, although they love each other deeply.
The so-called thorn birds, they have been searching for the thorn tree all their lives, and after finding it, they will slowly insert their bodies into the longest and sharpest thorns, and when they are on the verge of death, they will bloom their own singing voice and sing the last song of their lives.
This book is the pinnacle of Australian writer Colleen McCullough, but she is also a late writer, she was a neuropsychologist in the first half of her life, because she was still alone at a young age, so she used all her life accumulation to write this novel "Thorn Bird" in 1977.
As the heroine of the novel, Meggie naturally became the most eye-catching "thorn bird", and when the family came to Drogheida to inherit the property by their aunt, Meggie met the longest and sharpest "thorn thorn" Ralph, who was so personable and quickly became interested in the priest, it is ridiculous that Ralph fell in love with the little girl who was only nine years old at first sight, and he was already twenty-nine years old, a full twenty-year-old age difference, plus he was a priest. It seems that this relationship is impossible to happen.
But once love hit the mind, the age identity has long been forgotten, Ralph praised: "Megian, this is my only favorite name!" Not only did this sentence speak his heart, but little Meggie was also heartbroken, so the two lived intimately until Meggie was seventeen years old, during which time Ralph played the role of Little Meggie's teacher, friend, and even male girlfriend.
The aunt finally died, but the Meggie family, who had been able to get the inheritance, failed to get their wishes, and the new will clearly stated that the inheritance would be fully donated to the Catholic Church and controlled by Ralph, and the living expenses of the Megi family would be paid by Ralph, and stressed that the main contributor to this matter was Ralph, which meant that Ralph would be valued and promoted because of this matter.
It was obvious that her aunt's approach showed that she was devoted to the young and dashing Ralph, but because she was old, she did not dare to confess, but as soon as she saw Ralph and Meggie so close, jealousy suddenly surged into her heart, temporarily changed her will, and gave Ralph two major choices.
Meggie or Right? This question recurred in Ralph's mind, if the will was thrown into the fire and burned, he could be with Meggie forever, if the will was published, he would be recognized by the church and expected to become the cardinal archbishop, after a struggle, Ralph still announced the will, chose the supreme right, at this time he was ashamed of Meggie, so he chose to leave Drogheda.
Meggie, the bird of thorns, lost the longest and sharpest thorn, but met a substitute Luke, who was very similar to Ralph, but his heart was dirty, and his biggest dream was to open a ranch, but his family was poor, so he wanted to achieve his goal by cheating women's money.
Before meeting Meggie, Luke hooked up with two rich women, but unfortunately did not succeed, this time he plans to extend his claws to the ignorant Meggie, for a beautiful love, Meggie is always full of endless yearning, so Luke's plan is successful, under a sweet word, Meggie and Luke stepped into the palace of marriage.
Unfortunately, the choice was wrong after all, or wrong, after the marriage of Maggie was very unhappy, even Maggie's difficult birth did not necessarily have Luke to visit, fortunately, Maggie successfully gave birth to a daughter named Justine (the second part will be detailed in detail) The hard-hit Maggie came to a small island for a vacation.
In this clean place, given her a chance to think, Meggie thought about Ralph carefully, and when Ben decided not to miss it again, Ralph appeared in front of Meggie's eyes, and the two people who loved each other embraced each other as soon as they met, and Ralph revealed his heart to Maggie, so that both of them spent the happiest time with each other.
But the good times did not last long, Ralph could not rest assured of the heart of the workplace, proposed to go to Rome to take a more important position, Meggie was very reluctant in his heart, how Nairalf had already decided, did not stop, let him chase what he longed for, and what Ralph did not know was that Meggie was already pregnant with his child at this time.
Soon after, Maggie gave birth to another son, named Dane.
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years passed quietly, Meggie became a mother of two children, and Ralph naturally became the cardinal archbishop, a clueless girl who longed for family and love, and a dancing prince who longed for power and teaching, but in the end they all lost the person they loved most.
The author McCullough uses his rich life experience to reveal the truth that all good things will be exchanged for a great price, just like Meggie and Ralph, as the article concludes: "The bird has thorns on its chest, it follows an immutable law, she is pierced by something unknown, driven away, singing to death." At the moment when the thorn pierced in, she did not realize that death was coming. She just sang and sang until her life was exhausted and she couldn't sing a single note. But when we put the thorns in our chests, we know, we know. Yet we still have to do this, we still have to put thorns in our chests. ”
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