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Tokyo Tower (Mom and I, and sometimes Dad) is an autobiographical novel by Japanese writer Lily Frank (whose real name is Lily Franky). This novel tells the story of a person's growing up. It was rough to experience poverty, but he also enjoyed great maternal love!

The author was born in a city called Kokura, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Dad changed schools several times and dropped out of school several times because of his bad conduct. After that, I idled around, drank, stole, did everything, and got infected with sexually transmitted diseases. I have no proper job in my life, I can only earn money to support myself.

My mother was born in a coal mine family in a township. Later, due to the changes of the times, this kind of coal mine was eliminated. My mother's family, like many families around her, is financially strapped and lives in poverty. My mother is an elderly woman. At the age of 31, she met her father and got married. The next year, she gave birth to her son, Ya Ya. Mom is four years older than dad.

Ya also enjoyed a complete family life in less than four years. When he was more than three years old, his mother left home with him until his mother died at the age of 70. Mom and dad are just husband and wife in the household registration book, just because of their son, and occasionally have dinner together. During this period, Yaya graduated from junior high school and university, and her mother tried to get his advice twice and wanted to divorce her father. Yaya also expressed respect for her opinion, but until her death, her mother did not divorce her father. During this period, my father has been living with his mistress. Ya is also wondering whether her mother formally asked her father for a divorce because of herself.

It was his mother who raised him alone.

The mother doesn't have a fixed job, so she rents a house on the meager income of odd jobs, eats and drinks, and sends her son to school. Although the mother is in financial difficulties, she still takes care of her son in every possible way. Even if her son eats alone, she will cook several dishes. She always said that eating more was when she grew up. But mom often eats leftovers herself. Mother guessed her son's favorite clothes and always tried her best to buy them. When my son was in middle school, he accidentally got his favorite expensive mountain bike. When the son opened the package in the university, he was moved to tears when he saw enough money for his own expenses and expensive clothes he liked, because his mother was never willing to buy new clothes for herself, and there was never any ornament that other women had.

My mother in her sixties has cancer, thyroid cancer and cancer cells on her vocal cords. Fortunately, she met a famous expert and had an operation in a hospital in Tokyo. The operation was successful and the vocal cords were not affected. After that, the mother and son lived together in Tokyo and rented a house near the Tokyo Tower. Because my son has never had a good job, he often makes ends meet. Therefore, although they rent the cheapest house, they often move easily because they can't afford the rent. Finally, they rented the upper floor of a bowling alley and listened to the sound of bowling "Cleisthenes" day and night. My son always sympathizes with his mother. After several efforts, his work has improved and his income has increased. He rented a bigger and better house and arranged a separate room for his mother. But my mother never moved in, because at this time my mother was in the late stage of gastric cancer and suffered from the disease in the hospital until her death.

The medical expenses alone exhausted his son. When he was worried about the funeral expenses, he opened the things left by his mother and found that his kind mother had taken out funeral insurance for himself. Although the insurance amount is not high, it is enough to give mom a cheap funeral.

This kind mother won the respect of many people and received lilies from many people. Many people attended the funeral, including my mother's relatives and friends, and my son's classmates, colleagues and friends, because they were warmly treated by my mother and tasted her superb cooking.

After her mother died, Julia put her mother's body in that room for two days and stayed with her. After that, he put his mother's ashes at home. Then he boarded the Tokyo Tower with his mother's ashes. Holding his mother's ashes, he whispered to her: Mom, you have been longing to climb the top of the Tokyo Tower and see the beautiful Tokyo City. Because of illness in recent years, this wish has not come true. This time, your son brought you here. He overlooks the beautiful Tokyo with you.

In the following days, the mother lived beside her son all the time: she went to the kitchen to watch her son cook; When eating, I heard my mother tell me to eat more; When the guests came home, it was my mother who cooked a sumptuous dish and spoke enthusiastically to the guests. ...

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The mother described her son:

An ordinary mother took her son away from her husband and raised him alone when he was three years old.

In order to make a living, I worked in a snack bar, and I was always busy, but I always had a smile on my face. No matter how bad his son's homework is, he has never expressed his opinion on the report card, and he will hardly scold his son; I never think of myself when I buy things, only my son; Only the son eats alone, and he has to cook several dishes; In order to let his son eat delicious pickles in the morning, he always sets an alarm clock to get up in the middle of the night to stir rice bran; Obviously, money was tight, but he paid hundreds of thousands of cash on the spot to buy a motorcycle for his son; Afraid of bothering others after death, I saved 3,000 yuan in advance for my own funeral.

Annex 2

Lily Franky, graduated from Musashino University of Fine Arts, is a writer, picture book writer, illustrator, production designer, songwriter and photographer. He is active in art and literature. Starring in the film, won the Blue Ribbon Award and the Best Newcomer Award. I have acted in many TV dramas. Tokyo Tower is his first autobiographical novel. It tells a touching family story about his bumpy growing experience and his life with his mother.

I think: if the mother is in the spirit of heaven, she will be very pleased to see her son so successful. Maybe the mother has confidence and a hunch that her son will be successful and powerful. Because my son's blood is full of mother's kindness and indomitable character in the face of difficulties!

Second, think.

After reading this story, I fell into deep thinking. I suddenly understood, what is love? What is maternal love? Why have people been praising maternal love since ancient times? Because maternal love is selfless and fearless, giving blindly and asking for nothing in return. It was because she didn't ask for anything in return that she got the heaviest reward. This is probably cause and effect!

But this is different from the traditional sense of "raising children to prevent old age". If the selfless and fearless maternal love is compared with the traditional sense of raising children to prevent old age, it is a blasphemy against great maternal love.

I quite agree with Ding Yuanying, the hero of the TV series "Heaven": "If raising children is to prevent old age, then don't say how great maternal love is, because you raise children for yourself." In other words, parents have been insured for their own old-age care since they conceived and raised their children. Then the children grow up and have already shouldered heavy debts for their parents' pension. Some people will be hurt by the shackles of filial piety and unfilial, and even be heavily in debt.

Ding Yuanying said: "Parents are natural creditors when raising children to protect them in their old age. What you always think about is that this feeling is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea. What you've always wanted is to pay your debts. Therefore, this culture makes everyone unable to prevent it. The more old people feel that raising children to prevent old age, the more they feel bitter, and the more they feel bitter. "

Of course, the protagonist's prejudice against traditional culture is eccentric to ordinary people, but I agree with him. Because I can't agree with those old people, I put my chest on my children and ask for "filial piety."

Case 1

My friend got married less than a year ago, and my in-laws in their fifties asked the elders in the village to help them separate. The family is divided in this way: the eldest son and his wife work outside the home and pay the elderly monthly according to the regulations; The second son and the second son cultivate land in the countryside and pay enough food and other odd jobs as required; Three younger sisters got married, accompanied by two older brothers and sisters. At that time, the parents were too harsh on their eldest son, and the elders in charge of separation objected, "You want it so much, can they afford that little salary?" Can't they live on their own? "Finally, the number of places for the boss is slightly reduced. Of course, there are houses: the three new houses where the second child lives are the second child's; The four shabby houses where my parents live belong to the boss. A discerning person knows at a glance that the parents' housing distribution is false and the others are true.

Two friends and two younger brothers both abide by filial piety. No matter how difficult it is, they have fulfilled their promises and met their parents' requirements. The dowry of the three sisters is also happy. Parents' medical care, the boss pays, and the second child contributes, which is also satisfactory. In the surrounding villages, it has also gained a good reputation.

However, only the parties themselves know the taste. Because they, like the vast majority of children in China, should not only pay attention to repay their parents' upbringing, but also face the pressure of various relationships and public opinion, so they can only live a very bitter life!

Case 2

My best friend's best friend, my father-in-law, in his seventies, was critically ill and spent more than ten days in the intensive care unit. During the period, ventilators, hemodialysis machines and air filters were used (although the old man retired, most of the expenses in the intensive care unit were paid by himself). After more than ten days of rescue, five children kept sending money to the hospital. Although all five children have good jobs and incomes, they are all working-class people. Facing the cash register in the hospital, they all looked at each other. The meaning is self-evident. But the 70-year-old mother has a firm attitude and will: "As long as your father has a breath, he must be saved!" All five children are afraid of falling into the name of unfilial. In this way, dad lived with all kinds of pipes for more than ten days, and his five children were exhausted and heavily in debt.

This is the standard moral kidnapping adopted son to prevent old age, filial piety and unfilial. I don't know what other people think, but I agree with Ding Yuanying, the leading actor, that "this culture makes everyone stand upright".

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In fact, I have finished reading this novel for a long time, and this article has been well written for a long time, but I am not sure whether this concept can be recognized by most people and whether this article will be locked by the platform. I have never dared to publish it.

It's just that the image of this mother has been haunting my mind. I like her, love her and admire her. And my heart has been hit by her great maternal love. Therefore, I still can't help but introduce this novel to everyone.

It is difficult to be a man, but it is difficult to be a parent. In today's fast-paced society, being a child is even more difficult. It is not easy for children to find a job, and it is even harder to keep a good job. During this period, even if parents can't help their children, at least don't let the troublesome family affairs entangle them, let the children go into battle lightly, have enough energy to work, create and fight for their own careers. How nice!