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Introduction:
"Braveness is when you know you will lose before you start, but you still have to do it, and you have to stick to it anyway."
If you read "Kill One "Mockingbird", then you are no stranger to this sentence, and perhaps you are also impressed by the power that this sentence conveys. This book mainly develops a tragic story around this sentence. The content of the novel
, even if it is put in the present society, will still make many people angry. It mainly tells a black man who was falsely accused of rape by a white man. Although the defense lawyer Atticus has evidence that Tom is not rape, and Full defense, even if it proves that the crime is someone else, it still can't stop the jury's secular prejudice against blacks, which in turn leads to the blacks being convicted and killed by random guns. The book
even surpassed the "Bible", was named "the most educational book" and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (one of the most famous literary awards in the United States).
has given many people important enlightenment. Even after reading this book, many people comment on it: 's life without reading this book is really different from the life after reading it.
What kind of book is this to get such a high evaluation?
Some people say that this is a book of growth significance, which teaches every parent how to communicate with their children; some people say that this is a book with realistic themes, because it involves racial prejudice, human nature, good and evil, etc. problem.
However, I think this book has another layer of value: conveys a kind of thought, that is, how we should stick to our hearts and give ourselves a positive meaning in life.
01 Whether a novel is good or not depends on whether it gives people positive power. The protagonist of
, Atticus, is a respected lawyer in Maycomb. He is upright, kind, and just. He is the best in the whole book. A glorious role.
But because of a case of defending black people, the Atticus family has been criticized by the residents of the town. After all, in the society at that time, black people still had no status at all, "racial discrimination" was still very serious, and prejudice was still an unbreakable gulf.
Even Atticus’s sister, an old-fashioned noble lady, thinks that Atticus’s actions are "extremely shameful to the family", and that his actions are sympathetic to the nigger and will deceive the ancestors. shame.
When Mrs. Du Boss, a neighbor, pointed out and made irresponsible remarks to his children because Atticus defended the blacks, Atticus smiled at her troubles and responded indifferently with a gentlemanly demeanor.
Didn't Atticus know that he would suffer from the dissatisfaction of the white people in town when he defended black people? Will his sons and daughters not suffer from others' cold-heartedness and bad words, and bear the pressure they shouldn't bear at this age? The answer is given in the book
:
"If you shouldn't do it, then why do you do it?" Scout asked.
Asks hesitated for a moment, and replied, "There are several reasons. The main thing is that if I don’t do this, I will not be able to raise my head in the town, and I will not be able to teach you in Parliament, in this county, or even qualified to teach you How to behave with Jim."
Atticus, will we win?
is no show, baby
so why do we have to...
can't just give up fighting for victory just because we have failed in the past 100 years. Atticus said.
"No matter what kind of deep hatred, they are still our friends, and this is still our home.
Obviously, Atticus understands everything, he knows that in the world they live in, black people are in this group of people. In the eyes, it is guilty to do nothing, no matter how hard you try, this lawsuit is doomed to lose. What is admirable is that Atticus still actively searches for evidence and proves that Tom is innocent in court. Guilty; and when the Cunningham family (plaintiffs) wanted to privately execute the black man, Atticus risked his life to stand at gunpoint; after the lawsuit failed, he still insisted on appealing for Tom; he knew that he could not break everyone's Prejudice, but where his strength can contribute, he doesn’tWill give up.
Because he knows that there are many helpless rules in this world. Even if we know that we have done nothing wrong, we may encounter injustice and failure. But the most important thing in life is not success and victory, but a life of being worthy of one's heart, being loyal to oneself, sticking to the original aspiration, and facing suffering with a positive attitude.
Roman Roland said: The most valuable thing about people is that they still love life after seeing the essence of life. "And I think that Atticus's approach is: after seeing the essence of life, he still chooses to be firm in his heart. This quality is even more commendable. He has a more positive attitude towards life.
warns Atticus in the book to his children: "Braveness means knowing that you will lose before you start, but you still have to do it, and you have to stick to it anyway. "
The courage of Atticus is not only derived from the sacred mission given by the profession, but also from the respect of life by nature, the self-adherence to justice, and the hope that through his own meagre strength he can change the views of others. , Even if I know that I will fail, but I keep my original intention and keep going forward and give life a positive meaning.
02 What is the meaning of life that belongs to us?
Mr. Hu Shi said in "What is the meaning of life": the meaning of life lies in how we see it The meaning of life depends on how we use our hands and our brains.
Who of us has never asked ourselves whether our life is a meaningful life? In the night of insomnia, it is boring and burdensome for a long time. In our work, we are pursuing the road of success defined by the world; who of us has never been confused, is this really the life we want? We follow the trend, and we all talk about it, have we held our own heart for a moment? The life we lived gave us the meaning of life we wanted to give it?
Atticus did it. In Maycomb, the town where news is blocked and racial discrimination is still serious, he did not follow the public, but stuck to it. Myself. The so-called hero of
is not what you have done, but in the face of adversity, you still stick to yourself, keep your original intentions, and move forward. Even if you are an ordinary person, I also have the right to grow up in the sun. Although the
case failed. Yes, the figure who was quietly tidying up things in the court was a little lonely, but it won the respect of all the black people present. Every black person took off his hat to show respect where he passed.
Atticus’s sister, Although she did not understand what the morality of her brother’s insistence was, she clearly saw her brother’s attitude towards life: stick to her own heart. While others ridiculed the family, she resolutely took up the communication of the Atticus family in town, He is no longer criticized.
His sons and daughters learned from their father in this debate, "There is one thing that cannot follow the principle of conformity, and that is-the conscience of man. "
At the same time, Atticus, a just lawyer, has made more people who read this book fall in love with the profession of lawyers. Based on this, many people have embarked on the path of law.
We are not afraid of social coldness, but we Don’t want to be obscured by everyone, and secretly hide our true thoughts and choices. We don’t regret the choices we made, and we suffer from others’ ridicule, abuse and incomprehension, because we are afraid that we will have regrets in our lives. This is a novel. Show us the true values of Atticus.
03 The meaning of life lies in how you give it, rather than being told by others.
Frankl wrote in "The Meaning of Living Life":
people do what they do To succumb to the environment and conditions is to bravely challenge the decisions of those environments and conditions. In other words, people ultimately determine their own destiny. People do not simply live, but always need to make judgments about their own future and decide what they will do next. What kind of person you are.
The meaning of life is not determined by the situation, but depends on how we give the meaning of hope to the situation. That is to say: the meaning of life should be given by ourselves, not by others.
Cheng Yong, the prototype of the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine", was once a leukemia patient and an entrepreneur. He was affected by many leukemias.The patient is called "the god of medicine".
In 2002, Lu Yong was diagnosed with leukemia. For himself and to help patients, he began to buy drugs from India and was called the "first purchaser" of anti-cancer drugs . Lu Yong always felt that he was doing good . relied on his own strength to fight for many sick patients the opportunity to fight death to the death. It was not until 2014 that Lu Yong was taken away by the police on suspicion of selling "fake drugs". After
was released from prison, Cheng Yong did not stop helping others. He not only opened a factory in Wuxi, but also established a Xinjiang-aid factory in Xinjiang, helping more than 200 local people find employment.
In this special period of Wuhan pneumonia, he used all his relationships to buy 3000 goggles from India and 3000 N95s to support Wuhan.
is like a line describing Cheng Yong in the movie "I am not the god of medicine": The reason why we are kind is not in return, but in doing what we think is right.
If Cheng Yong feels that he has done good things before and is not understood, he will abandon himself in prison and complain about the injustice of the world. After he was released from prison, did he not have the "Yao Xia Cheng Yong" as we thought, or in this special period, an ordinary ordinary person, doing what he thought was right, Help more people.
Whether it is Cheng Yong or Atticus, they have enough courage to face the meaning of life defined by themselves.
is like Andy in "Shawshank's Redemption". He was wrongly murdered and put into prison, and tortured in prison, but he is a man with a firm heart. For example, he was able to write to the local government every day for six years, requesting the expansion of the prison library, and finally won. He also set up a cram school in prison to pass his knowledge to people in prison and help them learn skills so that they can enter the society and earn a living.
Andy explained with his own actions that if a person persists in himself, even if he is trapped in a prison under a high wall, even if the suffering of fate is tortured again, as long as a person remains firm in his heart and faces it with a positive attitude In a life of misery, even in the face of other people’s accusations, I can say frankly that I don’t regret it. The meaning of life is not given externally, but given to myself. I can still live the life I want.
Therefore, Andy won the appreciation of everyone in prison, and finally obtained his own inner salvation through his actions.
is like the movie said: "You know, some birds are destined not to be locked in cages, and every piece of their feathers shines with the glory of freedom."
Their encounters and experiences tell us: by The sense of personal value deduced by the hardships of life is not lower than the sense of value of making social contributions, nor does it have to be lower than happiness. They are not as simple as subjective feelings. The meaning of life is a process of growing into the sun, an experience of adhering to inner self-standards, and a hymn to life with a positive attitude.
Life has no meaning. If you can give it any meaning, it will have any meaning. Instead of meditating on the meaning of life, it is better to use this life to do something meaningful.
The famous psychologist Adler stated in "Inferiority and Transcendence" that "the meaning of life is given to oneself by oneself".
means that life has no universal meaning, but you can give meaning to your life, and only you can give it what meaning.
At the same time, Adler also gave a way to give meaning to life, which is to achieve "other contribution".
The so-called contribution of others is to influence and contribute to others as partners. This is the contribution of others .
Other contribution is not self-sacrifice, abandoning "I" and serving others, it is a means to realize the value of "I".
Our life is not a line that can be planned, but a series of moments, we can only live in "this moment". We look for the meaning of life throughout our lives. We want to give ourselves an ordinary life but an extraordinary meaning. We want to use our little persistence to pursuePursuing the meaning of life for ourselves, and infecting everyone around us with this, we want to flash in the lives of others.
This is the positive meaning of life that we should be rich. We should choose the sun, stick to the heart, and move forward.
Concluding remarks
Milan Kundera once said in "Immortality": people have big immortality and small immortality, the big immortality is that after you die, strangers still remember you, and the small immortality is to love you People still remember you.
I think what most people pursue is Xiaoxu. We use our actions to infect everyone around me, even if it becomes a glimmer of light in a certain person's life, I will not regret it.
The meaning of life is not necessarily to accomplish grand goals, make outstanding achievements, and win wealth and fame. In ordinary days, profound truth can be obtained.
We are strong and calm in facing the hardships of life and the ups and downs of fate; in adversity, following the decision of our inner self and not doing things that are ashamed of our heart, this is the meaning of life we want to pursue.
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(Author: Zhou students, the Department of the original article, reproduced subject to their consent, graphic from the network / I wanna be your life a bunch of dim light, with meager words Gives you strength, gives you courage)
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