We are born to be human, and we want to be kind. Kindness is not tolerating without principle, nor is it to blindly give. So, how exactly is kindness defined?
Fog is orphaned
The world is sinister, and we must distinguish between those darknesses, those evil deeds that are unavoidable or hypocrisy that seem to be good.
Hello everyone, here is "Extreme Reading", meet a good book to open a world, today for you to bring you is from the British writer Charles Dickens published in 1838 a long realistic novel "Orphans of the Mist". Viewers who like this show, please don't skimp on your little hands, and give a little bit of attention to the editor!
A mysterious beautiful woman died after giving birth to a boy in a workhouse.
The boy was named Oliver because he did not know the identity of Oliver's biological parents. So Oliver lived in a workhouse.
Oliver lived in a workhouse for nine years. For nine years, Oliver worked incredibly hard every day, and his daily food was just a bowl of porridge. A bowl of thin porridge, not enough to eat and not hungry. Oliver seemed to be able to see his whole life at a glance, either starving to death or being exhausted.
Until the appearance of a man changed Oliver's life. He was a boy who had previously opened a restaurant, and for some reason he had been exiled to the workhouse, because he had never suffered such a situation before, and he was so hungry that he threatened other orphans living in the workhouse to give him a bowl of porridge every day.
The boy was born very powerful and tall, and all the children could not beat him, so they had to listen to his instructions and give him a bowl of porridge every day, so they decided to use the lottery method to choose who would go to the chef who was going to divide the porridge and ask for an extra bowl of porridge. On this day, Oliver was "lucky" to be elected.
When Oliver took the empty bowl and walked over to the chef again to ask the cook for a bowl of porridge, the cook's face instantly darkened, picked up the spoon, and slammed it on Oliver's head.
What I don't understand is why the chef would treat another bowl of porridge when the child asked for another bowl of porridge, even a beating. What you know is that the leaders of those workhouses are big fish and big meat at the dinner table, and the mountains are precious and the sea is delicious.
Oliver was beaten for a bowl of porridge, and that wasn't all, and then the workhouse posted a notice: Whoever only has five pounds can take Oliver, do whatever he wants.
Oliver was taken by a coffin shop owner for a bowl of porridge.
Oliver was not liberated in his new environment, but ushered in a more bleak life. In the coffin shop, Oliver had no one to speak to, and the whole person looked very depressed, only countless cold coffins.
The owner of the coffin shop saw that Oliver's face was always desireless and undesirable, a look of frustration. I wanted to train Oliver to be a good mourner.
Oliver, after countless funerals, found that some people have a strong difference from ordinary people's departure from ordinary people, and have a strong heart, even if they are alive and dead, they will not destroy them.
These funerals taught Oliver to be strong and to have a strong heart.
The apprentice in the coffin shop is not only Oliver, there is also an apprentice, named Noah, like Oliver, born poor, Noah is often bullied by apprentices in other shops, but Noah never dares to resist, but instead, the humiliation he has suffered has been intensified on Oliver's body, Noah always wants to see Oliver being beaten and crying, but Oliver's heart is not so bad, although he was beaten by Noah, Oliver never shed a tear.
Until one day, Noah insulted Oliver's mother, Oliver could not bear it, and fought with Onoah, but Oliver was not Noah's opponent after all, and Oliver's resistance did not work, but suffered more rampant abuse.
Oliver's self-esteem was taken aback, and Oliver escaped from the coffin shop, ready to flee to London.
Before going to London, he returned to the workhouse and found his only friend, Dick, who was often beaten and imprisoned together while in the workhouse.
Dick sincerely prayed for Oliver, hoping that when he arrived in London, he would not suffer like this again. This was the first time Oliver felt warmth, And Dick's heartfelt prayer, the kindness in Dick's heart, became a light in Oliver's life dilemma.
Oliver went to London for seven days and seven nights, his feet bleeding. When Oliver arrived in London, he found this big city, but there was no place for Oliver to stay.
While wandering around London, Oliver meets a child named Witty Ghost, who offers to invite Oliver to dinner and takes Oliver to his place. Oliver was grateful to the clever ghost in his heart and felt that the clever ghost was a kind person.
When they arrived at the place where the clever ghost had settled, they found themselves in a thief's den, which housed a group of wandering teenagers. But they are all thieves. It turned out that there was a man named Fagin who had adopted all the homeless teenagers and taught them some stealing skills.
At first Oliver didn't know what it was for, only that Fagin was teaching them some skills. Oliver is still serious about learning. Until Fagin told him to follow the clever ghost out for an "internship".
The clever ghost stole a handkerchief named Mr. Bronno and ran away without a trace, leaving Oliver to be sent to the police station as a thief, and later walked out of the police station with the testimony of passers-by.
Oliver, who had gone into a police station, fell ill. The kind Browno couldn't bear it and took Oliver home. At Mr. Browno's house, Oliver felt a warmth he had never felt before, and naively thought that a happy life was coming.
However, the happy life did not come as promised.
It turned out that Oliver was an illegitimate son, and Oliver had a half-brother.
Oliver's biological father decreed in his will that all the property be left to Oliver unless oliver was a man of no evil like his brother, and his brother could inherit the inheritance.
In order to successfully inherit all the inheritance left by his father, his brother bought Fagin and wanted Oliver to become a thief spurned by everyone.
Fagin arranges for his adopted thief Nancy to search for Oliver with her husband, so Oliver is on the street and Istle is blatantly taken away by Nancy.
And just like that, Oliver was back in the den of thieves.
To prevent Oliver from escaping, Fagin puts Oliver under house arrest in a small dark room and does not allow anyone to speak to Oliver. He wants to destroy Oliver with darkness and loneliness. Let Oliver understand that there is only one way out if you follow Fagin.
In that little dark room, Oliver didn't give in or go along. He reminisced about his happy life with Mr. Browno's family. He hoped that one day he would get out of here, out of this dirty place.
For Nancy, Fagin arranging for her to do these things is a kind of torture, and Nancy hates Fagin because when Nancy was very young, Fagin used the same method to train Nancy and make Nancy a female thief. After Nancy grew up, Fagin introduced Nancy to a man, Nancy's current husband. Nancy's current husband is a tyrannical robber.
Nancy is still kind at heart, and it was Nancy who protected Oliver when he was beaten by Fagin.
Oliver's appearance was a turning point in Nancy's life, and Nancy felt that this was a kind child. After Nancy protected Oliver, Oliver did not continue to hate Nancy, but trusted Nancy unconditionally.
At one point, Nancy's husband threatened Oliver to go with him to someone's house to steal something. Oliver didn't want to do these illegal things, and when Nancy's husband was about to successfully escape, he shouted loudly so that the owner of the house found out about Nancy's husband's theft. In the confusion, Oliver was seriously injured and left on the side of the road by Nancy's husband. He couldn't stand up at the injured station at that time, and crawled to the door of the family for help. It turned out that the family that had been robbed was Oliver's aunt Ruth.
Ruth treated Oliver's wounds and left Oliver behind to take care of oliver.
But the bigger conspiracy is yet to come. His brother's plot against Oliver had not stopped. He destroys objects that prove Oliver's identity.
By chance, Nancy overhears Fagin and Oliver's brother's plot and learns of Oliver's origins.
Nancy's heart was struggling, struggling. Fortunately, kindness is always the embodiment of justice. Nancy decided to tell Ruth about it. Risking her life, risking being discovered by Fagin and Nancy's husband, she found Ruth and told her all about it.
Ruth wants to give Nancy a sum of money so she can find a place to live, but Nancy refuses. Because Nancy knew that she could not escape for a while. She lives in a difficult situation, even if she is out of Fagin's control, she cannot escape her fate.
Even if Nancy's husband was not good to Nancy at all and often beat her, Nancy could not bear to abandon her husband.
Later, Fagin and Nancy's husband learned of Nancy's betrayal, and Nancy swallowed her last breath under her husband's stick.
And finally. Oliver, with ruth's help, found out his origins and obtained his father's inheritance, and Oliver also lived a happy life with the people he loved and helped him. Those who did not have a trace of goodwill in their hearts were punished by the law.
It can be said that the first half of Oliver's life was full of tragedy and full of evil. But Oliver was not affected by these things, kept his principles, never complained with virtue, and never felt unfair to the world.
Dickens's Oliver is a character with a distinct personality, never resigned, never had bad thoughts.
There will always be good people around to redeem the broken goodwill that has been eroded by darkness.