Love in Cholera Period: Further Thinking on Life, Love, Old Age and Death

Many people have been recommending the book Love in Cholera to me. To tell the truth, I have bought this book for two years and have never finished reading it. Why? The first part, the description is trivial, and I feel sleepy after reading it, so I haven't finished reading it, and I don't know what story I told.

I finally finished reading this book yesterday, except for the first part, which was a little difficult to put into, and the latter part was really done in one go. Fortunately, I insisted on reading it, otherwise I would really miss a wonderful story.

Remia Desheng Amor, a child photographer, committed suicide on Christmas Eve. His good friend, Dr. urbino, declared that the cause of his death was "fear of aging". He learned something about suicide from the photographer unrequited love. Photographers believe that they will never get old and must end their lives at 60. Although he can't understand that there are people in this world who commit suicide because there is no love.

Aging is a disgraceful state and should be stopped in time. Maybe he agrees with the photographer.

Shortly after the photographer died. Dr. urbino, husband of Fermin Nadasa. In the process of climbing a ladder to catch a parrot, I accidentally fell to my death. Although the doctor is very old, he has always attached great importance to the maintenance of his body. I didn't expect to die because of this accident.

The first part discusses a lot of understanding about death, which is profound and difficult to understand. But it was this passage that aroused reading interest. His wife, Fermin Nadasa, cried herself to sleep after her husband died, thinking about Ariza more than her husband, Dr. urbino. This will arouse curiosity. At first I thought it was a love story between this doctor and Dasha. I didn't expect it to be a love story between Ariza and Dasha.

1, why is this book called this name?

At first glance, the title of this book must be related to cholera. Yes, I sum up three reasons.

First of all, the story happened in an era of frequent wars and cholera.

Secondly, the author thinks that the symptoms of cholera are the same as love. Both men and women, florentino ariza and Fermin Nadasa fell ill because of love, and were suspected to have cholera. "The symptoms of lovesickness are the same as cholera."

Third, after 53 years and 7 months 1 1 days, florentino Ariza decided to spend the rest of his life with Fermin Nadasa on a boat with a yellow flag symbolizing cholera.

2. If you briefly summarize the story, it is like this.

There are three protagonists, one is the hostess, we call her Dasa, and the other is her husband, we call him Dr. urbino. One is her first love, Ariza, who waited for her for more than 50 years and got together again after her husband died.

Ariza is an illegitimate child, a poor boy, and lives alone with his mother. By chance, he met Dasha and fell in love with Dasha at first sight. Note that they fell in love through letters and met no more than five times during the period. Dassault's father knew that his daughter was in love, but he didn't agree, so he took him back to his hometown to stay temporarily. Ariza keeps in touch with letters by virtue of her identity as a postman. Ariza likes reading, especially writing poems, so his letters are very good. Both of them imagined each other very beautifully and agreed to get married when they met again.

Finally, I waited for the chance to meet again, but when I met again, Dasa did not feel the shock of love, but fell into the abyss of disappointment. Dassault's filtration of Ariza shattered the floor. I broke up with Ariza through a letter. "Today, when I saw you, I found that we were just an illusion."

Dassault married Dr. urbino, and Ariza has been in the pain of love, but during this period, he has not been idle. First of all, he focused on his career. He was originally the illegitimate son of the chairman of the shipping company, so he returned to the family business. At the same time, he mixed with all kinds of women. He feels that only by being with a woman can he fill his emptiness and prove that he is still young and alive. He belongs to another woman physically, but he always belongs to Dasa spiritually, keeping her pure. I have to say, Ariza is actually a bit of an asshole. He recorded more than 600 women who had sex with him in his notebook. They all got what they needed when they needed it, including many women and girls who gave their hearts to her, but he didn't care or take responsibility.

Dasa and her husband have lived together for more than 50 years, and they are not particularly happy. At first, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were in conflict, and they were unhappy with their sister-in-law. Then her husband cheated on her. Although she lost her way, it also affected their feelings.

For more than 50 years, Ariza has been quietly paying attention to Dasa, going to the churches and restaurants she has been to, pursuing her trail, but never formally meeting. 5 1 year 9 months and 4 days, at Dasha's husband's funeral, he confessed again.

"Fermin," he said to her, "I have been waiting for this opportunity for more than half a century just to reaffirm my eternal loyalty and love to you."

After Dassault's husband died, Ariza resumed his pursuit of Dassault, still in the form of letters, but in order to avoid being discovered by others, it took him more than a month to learn to type with a typewriter this time. At first, he wrote in a young tone, with a strong expression of love, trying to recall the past. But Dasha didn't want to mention the past at all, so she ignored him and didn't return her. Later, he changed the content of the letter, all the past events were forgotten and everything started again. What he wrote is more like thinking about life in a broad sense, that is, thinking about life, love, old age and death. And these are exactly what Dasa himself originally wanted to express. She found a strange Ariza and rekindled her curiosity about him. The correspondence with Ariza soothed her inadaptability to life and anxiety after her husband's death. Ariza re-entered Dassault's life and met regularly every Tuesday, drinking tea, playing cards and chatting.

Dasa's daughter opposed their reunion, thinking it was immoral and disrespectful to the elderly.

I feel that love becomes indecent when it reaches a certain age.

"A century ago, people ruined my life and that of this poor man, because we were too young; Now, they want to do the same thing to us because we are too old. "

This time, Dasa bravely pursued the life he wanted and took a boat trip with Ariza.

On the cruise ship, the two fell in love again. Although the yellow flag symbolizing cholera was hung on the cruise ship, there was actually no epidemic. It's just that Ariza didn't want Dassault to see them together, because he met an acquaintance and was afraid of being gossiped by others, so he came up with this idea, but it was not a good idea, because the ship couldn't dock, and they could only sail back and forth all the time, but they were not anxious. On the contrary, they enjoyed their time on the boat and wanted to be together for life.

Ariza thinks that love in disaster is greater and nobler. Love is always love, but the closer it is to death. The stronger the love.

3. Character analysis and appreciation of golden sentences.

(1) Ariza has a crush on Dassault. Maybe he took his love for Dassault as his own belief, which was the only reason to live, so he could persist for so long.

Dassault's love for Ariza is not the rekindling of first love. People are one person, but in her heart they are two completely different people. She accepted her again, because he was not what he was when he was young.

Therefore, it is not so much a love affair that spans 50 years and praises the beauty of love as a story that is surrounded twice. There are many second times around, but few people have self-righteous love like Ariza.

This kind of love is not so beautiful, and it is more accurate to summarize it with the first sentence at the beginning. "Inevitably, the smell of bitter almonds always reminds him of his fate after his love is blocked." It is love and fate.

It is this accidental glimpse that has become the source of earth-shattering love that has not ended after half a century.

Ariza, naive, romantic, crazy and inferior.

Ariza wrote for the first time to force marriage. "It's now or never." Ariza always doesn't know what to do after killing tiger skin.

Ariza believes in the fate of love, and there is nothing more glorious than dying of love. Dasha agreed to get married and come back. He counted the time before she came back minute by minute, as if every minute was eternal.

The only pain that death makes me feel is that I can't die for love.

Dasa, smart, independent and precocious. The outside world evaluates vanity.

Ariza's evaluation of Dasa's daughter-in-law: Everything can be done in time and just right.

Dasa found a subconscious reason to stop him from loving doctors. He "Ariza" seems to be not a person, but a shadow. What the doctor offered her was actually limited to the secular interests: safety, harmony and happiness. Once these things add up, they look like love, but they are almost equal to love, but they are not love after all. These doubts increased her hesitation, because she didn't believe that love was really the most needed thing in his life.

But I was afraid of losing the fleeting opportunity. When I found that 2 1 year old was imminent, I panicked. 2 1 year-old is the secret boundary of her surrender to fate.

Dr urbino: For a loving couple, the most important thing is not happiness, but stability. Finally, Dasa agreed with the doctor. This is a moonstone that has brought them countless happy times. As time goes by. The two men came to a wise conclusion, in other words, they can't live together. In another way, they can't continue to love each other-nothing is more difficult than love.

The most ridiculous thing about Dassault and urbino is that in those unfortunate years, they were extremely happy in public.

Dr. urbino's method against forgetting: People who have no memory rely on paper instead.

Ariza's mother's understanding of love. She said to her son, "Take this opportunity while you are young and try your best to taste all the pain." "This kind of thing will never happen in my life."

Sarah noriega Love is first and foremost an instinct. It is either born or it will never be born.

The love of the soul is above the waist, and the love of the body is below the waist.

This is life. And love, if it really exists, is another matter: another life.

Dassault's father: The only thing worse than bad health is a bad reputation.