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What does poverty mean?
Poverty— like a gluttonous rat — is first and foremost gnawing at the edges of every garment, Zweig said.
I still remember the TV series I watched when I was a child, the TV series "My Ugly Lady" starring Teacher Zhang Shaohua, the son struggled all the way from the poor countryside to the city, and finally got married but did not let his wife know that he had a rural mother, and even did not let his mother attend the wedding.
Although poverty is not terrible, sometimes poverty can make a person forget his roots and destroy his conscience.
The book "There is a Tree in Brooklyn", which Xiao Caitou read when he was still in school, does not have the thrilling plot of a suspense novel, nor is it the kind of magnificent poem that depicts the ebb and flow of an era, but it has impressed me for a long time.
The young protagonists are Francie and her brother Nyrey, who grew up in a poor family in Brooklyn in the early twentieth century. Mom cleaned others in exchange for free housing, while Francie's dad, Johnny, a part-time singing waiter with unrealistic fantasies, could sing and dance and bring joy to those around him, but he was an alcoholic and unable to earn money to support his family. The two children also followed the hunger and feast.
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Francie's favorite thing to do is to read, to see the books in the library from the beginning of the letter A to the Z, no matter what type of book, she takes it all, and sucks the nourishment of knowledge like a hunger.
Sometimes, we obviously have a lot, but we often feel unhappy. However, the destitute Francie would sit in the taiping staircase of the building on Sunday afternoon with a borrowed book, hiding in the shade of a thick tree, reading books, daydreaming and dreaming about her future.
Such leisure time was both a luxury and a blessing for young Francie, and even took her beyond the difficulties of Monday to Friday.
From the window of France's house, a huge and dense tree could be seen in the courtyard in front of the building, which Francie and her brother regarded as a secret place. This tree is the Ailanthus tree, also known as the Heaven tree, which can grow in extremely barren places and has amazing vitality. One day, however, because the neighbors' clotheslines were always entangled and ruthlessly cut. But Dad reassured France that one day, it would grow again.
How happy can a childhood without enough food be? You just give them a tree and they can all feel endlessly satisfied.
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Although Dad always said, "We'll get through it." But in the end, he made a fool of himself, and his father left prematurely, which made Francie deeply devastated. Plus her mom is pregnant again, and her younger brother's mom plans to drop Francie out of school...
The owner of the tavern, whom Dad used to visit, brought relief to the Francie family, but the mother refused, but the two brothers and sisters accepted the offer to work part-time as the owner of the tavern.
The father who has always brought joy to the people around him, the strong and self-reliant mother, the grandmother who firmly believes that reading can change her destiny, the kind and enthusiastic Aunt Sissi... All these have left many good memories for the childhood of the two Francie sisters and brothers.
Finally, after her mother found happiness, France and her brother Nirey ran to the roof together, and saw that the tree had indeed re-grown as dad said, and life was slowly getting better, but Francie and her brother Nirey were reminiscing about the days when they picked up the rags together, and felt sorry for their sister who did not have the opportunity to suffer.
Seeing this, how can we not be deeply infected by the optimism and strength of the Francie family?
Everyone is trying to get out of poverty, but sometimes poverty is not nothing. It teaches us how to learn to be strong and maintain self-esteem in the midst of difficult situations. It's a story about growing up, without deliberately showing off suffering, but also teaching us how to face life's tribulations optimistically and be empathetic.