Two different families, two different life trends

Closing the book in my hand and staring at the green plants on the desktop, my thoughts seemed to drift thousands of miles away. I saw the brown Volkswagen "Rabbit" car, full of bags, walking on the highway with Mia and Pearl.

At the same time, I am also worried: Mia and Pearl, where will the mother and daughter go next? Can Ikey successfully follow Mia's mother and daughter to the world? What will happen to the Richardson family after what they have gone through?

These questions are constantly emerging, giving me unlimited room for reverie.

A Little Fire is a new work by China woman writer Wu Qishi. Once published, it won 20 17 American Amazon novel of the year, and then won 27 annual book awards in one breath.

This book is about two different families. Mia and her daughter, a single-parent family, moved to Cirkel Heights and rented Richardson's house. By chance, they met the Richardson family of six and a series of things happened.

Through two different families, the author presents two different lives. One is to follow the rules and strive to be the envy of others; The other is an unrestrained person, who doesn't care much about the rules that others think and doesn't care about other people's opinions.

Of course, the author did not say which kind of life is better, and the final answer is left to the readers to understand slowly. But judging from the content of the book, it is obvious that the author prefers the latter.

With the help of Mrs. Richardson's investigation, this book describes Mia's life experience in detail. Through Mia's eyes, Richardson's seemingly well-behaved family also exposed many problems.

Mrs Richardson is a professional woman with a regular life and a plan for everything. At the same time, she is the mother of four children. Mrs Richardson has many expectations for this family. She hopes that family members can be highly integrated, behave like her and become an enviable family in the eyes of others.

However, Mrs. Richardson's vision was broken by her little daughter Ikey. Ikey has different personalities from other brothers and sisters. She often does unexpected things, such as sneaking into the animal protection society and trying to let all the stray cats go. She hit the teacher who abused her students, but she was suspended for three days.

All this made Mrs. Richardson crazy, but she was at a loss. Therefore, she can only threaten her behavior by grounding or throwing away Ikey's beloved boots.

In Mrs. Richardson's view, Ikey is the small flame of Richardson's family, and a little carelessness will lead to great disaster. It is not so much that Ikey is incompatible with the family as that Mrs. Richardson's requirements for family members are different from ordinary people.

Mrs. Richardson wants everything under control and no one is out of her control. But how terrible it is to control, that is to say, family members are not allowed to have different personalities from ordinary people. Even if you have different ideas, you must hide them and not make them public.

However, everyone has his own personality and different views on the same thing. Being highly consistent with the family is obviously unacceptable.

However, under the control of Mrs. Richardson, Leckie, Tripp and Moody seem to be very integrated with their families, and everything they do is in line with their mother's wishes. In fact, they secretly rebel, have abortions and often have sex with their girlfriends.

These things are beyond Mrs. Richardson's control, but they happened quietly and she didn't know it. All this was silently seen by Mia, remembered in her heart, and finally presented in the painting.

No one is perfect, and there is always a lot of gap between ideal and reality. Family should be the most understandable and tolerant place, but now it has become a place where mistakes can't be made.

? If there is no difference between the members of the family, then the repressed personality will break out one day. If we always can't tolerate the diversity of family members and try our best to change them, the results we will face may be subversive.

Just as Mrs. Richardson can't tolerate casual Mia, she can't accept the influence and change they have brought to the Richardson family. These situations are completely out of Mrs. Richardson's control, and she must get rid of these disharmonious factors.

So, she tried to drive Mia and her daughter out of the rental house and tried her best to restore life to its original state. However, a changed life is like a broken mirror. No matter how to remedy it, it is impossible to return to its original state.

However, the result of Mia's departure was not accepted by Ikey. She firmly remembers what Mia once said: Sometimes, you need to burn everything before something new grows, and so do people. They can start over and always find a way. So Ikey burned down his house with fire, and then chose to run away from home and follow Mia to this world.

On the other hand, Mia leads a completely opposite life to Mrs. Richardson. She is called an artist, and her surface is too cold to approach. In fact, her heart is warm, kind, intelligent and considerate.

In order to create satisfactory works, she almost leads an erratic life. Mia's life is simple and pure, as if nothing can interfere with her thoughts and life except taking care of Pearl and taking pictures.

Before Pearl was born, Mia only had eyes for photography, and she never cared about other people's opinions. Even though her parents opposed her application for art school, she still stuck to her dream and worked hard to earn tuition to support herself.

Just because of poverty, Mia came to another fork in her life-surrogacy. By accepting such a request, Mia can get a large sum of money, which is enough to support her through college life.

However, at the last minute, Mia changed her mind and left home with Pearl. Of course, it also cost her a heavy price, and she will never be able to go back to school to continue her studies.

From then on, Mia took pearls everywhere, just to make a satisfactory work. After years of wandering life, she made a rule for herself: don't miss any place, any place or even anyone or anything.

In Cirkel Heights, Mia has changed a little. Perhaps the maternal feelings were touched, and she took the initiative to help her colleague Beibei and strive for the custody of her daughter. Mia gave care and comfort to Beibei when she broke down emotionally.

In Richardson's family, Ikey has always been a neglected child, and no one has ever cared about her thoughts and feelings. But Mia cares about her feelings and attaches importance to her thoughts, which makes Ikey open his heart and have emotional trust in Mia.

Facing the ignorant Leckie, Mia didn't ask too many questions after the abortion, and looked strange. She just cared and cared for Lekszi in every possible way until she recovered.

As for the pearls in Seeds of Love, Mia never wanted to interfere in her daughter's love life. She just gave her mother proper care and reminder. Even if she is too nervous sometimes, Mia still controls herself rationally and respects her daughter's choice.

Mia always regards children as observers and listeners, whether they are Pearl or Richardson's children. Mia's sincerity keeps the child around and always feels warm and comfortable.

In this regard, Mrs. Richardson felt the threat of Mia's existence, and Mia's departure was the inevitable result. After all, she didn't want Pearl to be deeply influenced by Richardson's rule.

In this world, not everyone will live a stable and prosperous life according to the established rules. Some people will choose an unusual path, just to gain spiritual wealth and enjoyment, and unswervingly follow their inner thoughts.

Some people may know what they think from the beginning, such as Mia. Some people, like Charles, the protagonist in The Moon and Sixpence, don't realize their inner thoughts until they reach middle age, have a stable career and a happy family.

Just like Mia and Charles, they can live a rich and stable life, but they don't want to care about other people's opinions and choose the road that few people take.

On the surface, Wu Qi's poems describe two different families, but in fact they present us with two different worlds. Through the book Little Fire, we can feel the trend of life brought by two different choices. You might as well read the books carefully, feel the charm of the story, understand the meaning behind the story and enhance your understanding of life.