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In "Young You", Wei Lai is a very bad girl. Cold and cruel to classmates, taking the lead in bullying in school.
At the same time, she was an innocent person, in her parents' place.
The mother demanded that she only be able to make friends with "high quality" people.
My father would ignore her for a whole year after she failed the first college entrance examination.
She grew up in an environment where her parents only cared about her studies. There is no attention paid to her character, three views, and emotional needs.
Of course, that kind of thing doesn't necessarily exist in themselves.
This is where Wei Lai is innocent.
She had a skin bag for others to look at, and no one taught her how to make her soul perfume.
She's bad, but she probably doesn't understand why she's doing those bad things. Bullying was just a pastime for her to soothe her inner depression.
Owen said that the environment determines the language, religion, cultivation, habits, ideologies and behavior of people.
In minors who are immature physically and mentally, the impact of the environment is particularly pronounced.
Ian McEwan's best novella, The Innocent, discusses the effects of the environment on people.
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The tragedy that happened to Leonard is absolutely inseparable from the environment.
Leonard, an English boy in his early twenties, was sent to post-World War II Germany to work as an underground phone tapper.
At first, he would blush when he called strangers.
He would work hard, sometimes day and night, even if they seemed boring.
Of course, he also met a beautiful Divorced Single German girl.
Later, the shadow of the post-war period gradually shrouded.
Here, everyone is very anxious and proud of their violent behavior against each other.
Here, work needs to be kept secret from everyone, including the girl he loves. Because there were more than 10,000 people in berlin at that time who were eavesdropping on intelligence.
Here, no one can let him relax, and the chat partners have to find themselves, such as stumbling upon two strange British compatriots who are carrying ladders.
In this environment, Leonard began to have fantasies. He imagined himself as a weary soldier who was being controlled by his girlfriend and wanted to take back control. So he almost raped her.
Finally, he would drag around with a box containing his girlfriend's ex-husband dismembered body. People's personality and decision-making will be subtly affected in the environment.
In the movie "Lobster", every single person is sent to a hotel. Everyone has forty-five days to find a partner, and after a period of testing, they can go to the city to live a normal life. If the time comes and you haven't found a partner, you'll become an animal of your own choosing.
Everyone goes through a huge ordeal around the age of forty-five, and needs to quickly find someone in common to become a partner.
To this end, a man smashed his nose, pretended that he was born with frequent nosebleeds, and married a girl with the same symptoms.
A man who sees a woman nearly choking to death does not help, and then partners with the indifferent woman who tests him. Later, he couldn't stand it and escaped.
He has changed. He would take advantage of his indifference to kill his former friend and break up another friend's marriage.
Don't underestimate the impact of the environment, and always observe yourself and the state of a few years ago, you can clearly see the change.
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Mary was Leonard's girlfriend, later fiancée, and later a helper to dismember the body together.
Mary was actually a good girl.
When she was young, in order to gamble with her parents, she casually found a person who looked good to marry.
She wanted to prove she could live well, but later found out she was wrong.
The husband is a super drunkard and has violent tendencies.
Mary divorced him though. But he still haunts. He often came to her for money and beat her up.
Maria called the police, but the police thought her ex-husband had fought in World War II and was a hero. They felt that Mary was falsely accused, and even often gave her ex-husband some small drinks.
On the night Maria and Leonard got engaged, her ex-husband hid in a cupboard in Maria's bedroom, hoping for a malicious blackmail or revenge. Unfortunately, he drank too much and slept over.
This aimed at the newcomer spotted him through purring.
While they were trying to deal with him, the ex-husband woke up and provoked Maria to take the house back.
The battle between the two men was on the verge of breaking out, and in the end the young and strong Leonard won. The "reward" was the corpse of the ex-husband's brother himself hitting the axe.
The prospective couple had no choice but to dispose of the body.
Leonard dragged his suitcase down the road, not knowing where to go.
They are obviously innocent, but will anyone believe it?
If it weren't for this suspicious and violent environment, Maria and Leonard would surely have a bright future.
It's like Fitzgerald's Gatsby. The most sympathetic part of him is that in a materialistic environment, he still wants to touch others with true feelings, which is tantamount to shaking a tree.
He was innocent and a victim of the times.
So we have no resistance to such a powerful environmental impact?
No!
A person creates success in a rebellion against the surroundings of life.
That's what these great writers want to tell us.
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What happened to Mary and Leonard?
Mary asked Gras for help, and Gheras helped them settle the matter through her own abilities.
After Leonard fled back to England, Maria and Gras became in love and became united.
With the rest of her happy life and love, Mary overcame the darkness and helplessness of the environment.
Of course, the environment is not always so dark. For the light of humanity is always there.
There is a story in "Today's Statement" where the thief was caught, and he said that there was a younger brother in the family who needed to be taken care of. Everyone thought it was just a simple story of a thief brother. Later, it was found that it was a thief who stole something to feed a seven- or eight-year-old thief. They are not related. The little thief was a burden in his father's eyes, but he was protected by a strange brother.
How lucky this little boy in the dark was to encounter a warm light.
But if we never meet this lamp, then we will be our own lighthouse.
Victor Frankl is a miracle.
As a Jew, he was captured and sent to a concentration camp. He survived decades of purgatory and self-healing, combining his own experience with scholarship to create meaning therapy. Helped more people who lost the meaning of their lives.
He has always loved life, and at the age of 67 he still began to learn to fly a plane, and received his pilot's license a few months later. — Climbed the Alps until the age of 80.
Lichtenberg: The environment is never perfect, the negative people are controlled by the environment, and the positive people control the environment.
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Chernyshevsky has a good saying: the environment affects the growth of man, but it does not exclude the free expression of the will.
The environment makes innocent people.
The innocent can choose to accept the effects of the environment and be a wretched or hateful person. For example, Wei Lai, such as the Peking University girl who committed suicide some time ago.
Innocent people can also choose to reject this environment and be a respectable and lovely person. For example, the little Nezha in the animation, such as the doctor who has cancer and still chooses to fight in the front line, he said: "Don't waste me."
The poncho does not straighten itself, and the white sand is black in nirvana. We must strengthen ourselves and make choices that we do not give in and do not regret.
In addition, in addition to our ability, let's do more good things. Even if it is very inconspicuous, it may become a beacon in the hearts of some people.
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Author: July Flowing Fire (1992 ~ unknown), member of the Intensive Reading Friends Association. He loves reading, traveling, and listening to stories.