A man named Ovie decided to die: his death-seeking and accident "A man decided to die", "A man named Ovie" "He had had enough, and now he has to die." "Now you're useful, Ovie!"

A Man Named Ove Decides to Die is the work of [Swedish] writer Frederick Buckman. Once published, it attracted much attention, and Chinese the world, the book was constantly reprinted. The release of the 2015 film adaptation further contributed to its spread.

I have divided the reading notes of this book into three parts, and this part is mainly to introduce you to what kind of story this book tells.

Without further ado, please get to know Ovi first

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He doesn't wear a suit on weekdays, and in his eyes, only contrived people wear suits every day.

But today, he wears a blue suit, a white shirt buttoned up every button, and the watch he has worn all his life.

Today, that can be an exception.

He drove out the house, went to the flower shop to buy flowers, and he came to his wife's grave. Touching the tombstone, he whispered to his wife.

Back home, he drilled an eye in the middle of the room with a drill and hooked it.

He went into the foyer, put on his coat, turned off all the lights, and washed off his coffee cups. Picking up the rope from the living room hanger, he made a circle on the hook, stuck his head into the rope loop, and kicked off the stool under his feet.

His name was Ovie, he was fifty-nine years old, and he had decided to die today.

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At the age of seven, his mother died of tuberculosis. She works in a chemical plant and loves to watch the sky and smoke.

His father was a railroad worker, and his hard work shaped his steely body. In the eyes of Ovi when he was a child, if the Norse god of war was subordinate, it should be the appearance of his father.

After the death of their mother, the two grandfathers relied on each other for their lives. Eat sausages with potatoes every night and play cards. Not much, but never much.

His father taught him kindness, taught him integrity, taught him silence. He also grew up to be a father-like man, kind and silent.

At the age of sixteen, an out-of-control train carriage took his father with him.

The first thing he did was return the first half of his father's advance salary for the second half of the month— because his father was dead and apparently could no longer work for the company for the second half of the month.

The manager stopped him, confiscated the money he had returned, and instead asked him to work here instead of his father.

He became a railroad worker, a father-like man.

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Five years later, he met a girl. They got married. Live happily together. Until six months ago, the girl who had lived together for almost forty years left him forever.

At the end of his wife's funeral, he didn't want to live. But he couldn't die, and he felt that he couldn't leave his job alone. You can't be irresponsible.

But lately he's often breathed heavily, his hands and feet cold and trembling, and he couldn't breathe. So on Monday, the boss of the company informed Ovie that you had a heart problem, so it was better to retire early and go home to rest.

Ovie has worked for the company for more than thirty years, and he feels like he's being cleaned up. In his conception, retirement is equivalent to becoming a superfluous person and a burden on society.

He was furious that the greenhouse flowers and male brothers in his eyes actually told him that they didn't need him anymore. He couldn't accept himself as a superfluous person, he'd had enough, and now he had to die.

At lunchtime, he paid for his funeral and booked a cemetery next to his wife. He wrote down the precautions after his death and put them in an envelope along with all the important invoices, the purchase contract, and the maintenance records of the car. Then I put the envelope in the pocket of my coat.

On Tuesday night, he unsubscribed from all newspapers and magazines and turned off all the lights.

Wednesday, before punching the hole. He carefully laid a plastic protective film on the floor, not worried about the dust falling from the hole, but also knowing that the hanged person would not shed blood. The bastards who just didn't want to come in and collect the corpses ruined his floor.

Now, he can go and die.

The brain sped up due to lack of oxygen, and everything around it slowed down.

Finally, with a loud noise—the rope that was hanging around his neck actually broke into two pieces.

He didn't die.

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As Ovie prepares to hang himself, Anita, the neighbor Rooney's wife, shows up in front of his door and tells Ovie, "The heating in our house is broken and it won't get hot." ”

Although Ovie did not pay this errand on his lips, he kept it in mind. After the hanging failed, he threw the broken rope into the trash. Finding a wrench and a plastic kettle, he came to Rooney's house.

After this, Ovi did not immediately stop suicidal thoughts.

The second time, he chose to commit suicide by car exhaust. He started the car, closed the garage, and connected the exhaust pipe to the interior of the car with a plastic hose. Then get in the car, close your eyes and wait for death to come.

At this time, because the neighbor's pregnant husband had fallen off the ladder, the pregnant woman needed Ovi to drive her and her daughter to the hospital. Accidentally interrupted his suicide.

The third time, in order not to disturb the neighbors, he entered the process of death. Before sunrise, he walked to the train station, intending to commit suicide by lying on the tracks.

As it should be, the accident happened again. A passenger on the opposite platform fell on the tracks due to a sudden illness. Seeing that other people can't do something. Ove had to jump off the platform and lift the passenger up to the platform. At this time, the train came.

Ovie intends to stay here. But when he saw the young train driver's frightened gaze through the window. He didn't want to leave permanent psychological trauma on a child under twenty because of himself. So he jumped on the platform at the last minute and abandoned the sleeper track.

When Ovie returns home with a pregnant neighbor, he finds a hole left by the cat falling in the snow. Before Ovie could act, she jumped into the snow and rescued the cat. Then half-commanded Ove opened the door and went inside to try to save the frozen kitten. Eventually, with the help of another neighbor, The Little Fat Man, they managed to save the kitten.

When the three discuss who to take care of the kitten, the little fat man has a rash due to cat hair allergy; and the pregnant woman guesses that Ovie is planning suicide due to the smell in the car and Ovie's recent behavior, so she also speculates that her daughter is allergic to cat hair.

The heavy responsibility of taking care of the cat was entrusted to Ovi.

After picking up a neighbor's family from the hospital on a trip, Ovie parked his car back in the garage. Instead of turning off the ignition immediately, he glanced at the plastic hose on the garage wall—he had thoughts of suicide again.

But when he saw the kitten on the co-pilot, he extinguished the engine.

Taking advantage of the cat's convenience in going out, he closed the door of the house and tried to commit suicide by taking too much painkillers. But the screams of the cats and the barking of the dogs at the door interrupted him. He knew that if he didn't show up right away, the dog's owner, the woman who had abused the stray cat, would abuse the cat again.

He saved the cat again, or perhaps, the cat saved him again.

Annoyed, he wants to avenge his cat. With his own mechanical skills, he set a trap in a place where the dog often peed on the ground. Once it pees there, it is charged by the battery.

But under the cat's gaze, he was embarrassed to remove the trap again. He didn't want to hurt anyone, not even that nasty dog.

After this, Ove also had several suicidal thoughts, but all of them were unsuccessful due to various accidents.

In the process, Ovie constantly helps others, teaching his wife's former students to repair bicycles, taking in boys who have been kicked out of the house by his gay-hating father for coming out of the closet, and driving away the staff who will forcibly take Rooney away from Mrs. Rooney... More people came to Ovi for help.

Eventually, I don't know when he gave up committing suicide. The neighbors were constantly troubled, complaining about their incompetence and grinning at the incompetence of these people, and when a person was in the Soya cemetery, he would occasionally say vaguely, 'Something might be good during the day'.