In the evening, the woman suddenly walked into the mud hut. She frightened the bat overhead, and the bat flew from one end of the mud hut to the other, flapping its wings like a book.
Outside, a gust of wind blew, causing the weeds to undulate like waves. The willow branches rustled, casting crooked shadows on the dilapidated walls.
A crow landed on a flat roof, chirped a few times, and then flew away. The woman turned and walked out of the mud hut, unaware that she had burst into tears.
This is a particularly moving scene in Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns".
The protagonist Leila returns to the mud house of her deceased friend Mariam, and uses a silent confession to recall Mariam's ordinary but brilliant life.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a true record of Afghanistan's 30-year history, as well as a touching story of family, friendship, and faith.
With the help of a woman's perspective, Hosseini takes us into a world of cruelty, despair, and suffering, and at the same time uses hope, redemption, and love to ** all the scars.
Mariam is an unrecognized "harami" (illegitimate daughter), she is kind and brave, but she cannot control her own destiny, and her life is desolate.
Leila comes from a wealthy background, but she is also swept into the whirlpool of life and is forced to grow and transform in the midst of suffering.
Two women who were originally unrelated, because of a war, have a fateful intersection since then.
Russell said:
Of all moral qualities, the good nature is the most important in the world.Behind every dusty face is a soul, and goodness is immortality that inhabits the soul.
Throughout Mariam and Leila's lives, it is not difficult to find:
Kindness that goes deep into the bone marrow is the noblest decency of a person.
Suffering is a compulsory lesson in life
Mariam's mother, Nana, was a maid in the family of the wealthy Zalil. Because she was pregnant with Zalil's child, Nana was kicked out of her home, displaced, and living in a mud hut.
After Mariam was born, Zaril would visit the mother and daughter every Thursday in the mud hut and buy gifts for Mariam.
The arrival of his father became a beam of light that illuminated the chaotic skies of Mariam.
But her humble background painted Mariam's life with a sad and miserable background.
At the age of 15, Mariam decided to leave the mud hut and pursue Zalil.
Mariam had expected that Zalil would be overjoyed to see her daughter;But what awaited her was Zalil's avoidance.
Mariam was very upset by her father's attitude. Despite her reluctance, Mariam was taken back to the mud hut by the driver.
Little did Mariam know that her life was about to be turned upside down.
Leaving Zalil, Mariam returned to the mud hut. The wind blew the wicker, and Mariam saw Nana's body at a glance.
Mariam chooses to leave, which makes Nana devastated and despairing. This hard-working woman chose to end her miserable life by killing herself.
After losing her mother, Mariam was forced to marry Rashid, a shoemaker in his 40s. In the first few years of marriage, Mariam still felt happy and beautiful.
The good times didn't last long, and 7 miscarriages in a row made Mariam's situation take a turn for the worse.
After disappointment after disappointment, Rashid became even more resentful and alienated from Mariam.
Being beaten and scolded has become Mariam's daily routine. Rashid would often find excuses to beat her or even insult her.
The successive encounters destroyed Mariam's health and overdrew Mariam's kindness.
Zaril's uncaring gesture made Mariam's situation even worse.
The pathos of fate is much the same, but Mariam's experience is more distressing.
The husband is disgusted, the father is indifferent, and the mother is ...... away
Life grabbed Mariam's throat and forced her to retreat. But tenacious and kind like Mariam, she is rooted down in loneliness and helplessness, and holds her head high in loneliness and helplessness.
Finally, she waited for the most important woman in her life, Leila.
Baf said
Not every disaster is a disaster;Early adversity is often a blessing.A truth of the adult world, life is impermanent, and suffering is frequent.The difficulties we have overcome have not only taught me a lesson, but also inspired us to strive for the future.
It seems that a hurdle has just passed, and a high wall has ushered in.
No one can escape this fate, but there are always people who fly against the wind and fight back.
No matter how cruel the reality is, if you have a good heart and move forward unyieldingly, you can withstand the rain, snow, wind and frost of the years.
Good and evil are the choices of human nature
Because of the war, Leila lost her two older brothers and then her parents.
Rashid finds Leila and digs her out of the rubble and takes her home.
A month later, Leila gets bad news from a man: her lover Tariq has been blown up and killed.
Having lost everything, Leila's future is in darkness. At this time, Zahid began to deliberately approach Leila, frequently making overtures.
Out of a woman's natural vigilance, Mariam once persuaded Leila to leave late one night. But Leila decides to stay, and she is going to marry Zahid.
Leila's actions deeply stung Mariam and brought the relationship between them to a freezing point.
Until one time, they quarreled over looking for a long spoon to stir rice, and the meager window paper that existed between the two was pierced in an instant.
Mariam thought she and Leila would die of old age, but life is unpredictable.
Leila gives birth to her daughter Azizha, and Zahid becomes more dissatisfied and irritable. He often taunted the two women, and even more so to Mariam.
Leila is not like Mariam, she has to rebel against Zahid every time. Zahid was so upset that he added his anger to Mariam.
But this time, just as Zahid pulled out the belt, Leila lunged at him, successfully slowing Rashid to Mariam.
Mariam escapes and re-examines her relationship with Lyra.
The relationship between the two is sublimated day by day, from strange to familiar, from distant to close, and transformed into a kind of friendship that cherishes each other.
Mariam also sprouted a long-lost maternal love from Azsha. She would affectionately hug Azisha and let her roll in her arms.
Until a fire disturbs the peace of the whole family.
After the fire, Rashid was at home almost every day. He slapped Aziza and kicked Mariam to see that Leila was not pleasing to the eye.
Losing their survival**, how to fill their stomachs quickly became the key to their survival.
Although she was beaten by Rashid, Leila and the children gave Mariam hope.
In order not to starve her family to death, Mariam took the initiative to seek Zalil's help. For the sake of this family, she chose to let go of her hatred for her father.
Writer Lu Xiansheng said in the article "The Reward of Kindness":
Good people are not rewarded, but life's reward for good deeds is happening all the time in our world.Kindness, in fact, is very simple. A help, a word of comfort, and a smile will make others feel like a spring breeze.
Those who love love to return, and those who are blessed are blessed.
Karma reincarnation, one day in the future, the kindness you give will come back to you in another form.
The noblest dignity is to have good thoughts
As the days go forward, people are also coerced and cannot stop.
When Tariq miraculously stood in the doorway, Lyra had the illusion of being a world away.
In an instant, Leila suddenly realized: it turned out that the parting of life and death was just a ** directed by Rashid.
Leila uncovers a conspiracy of Rashid years ago, and at the same time, Rashid tears up a mystery that Rashid has been a mystery of many years ago.
Azizah is not Rashid's own flesh and blood. Leila married Rashid for Tariq's children.
A heated argument broke out between the two.
During the argument, Rashid swings his belt and pulls it at Leila, causing her to bleed out.
Leila didn't give in either, pulling Rashid to the ground and scuffling with each other. Rashid grabbed Lyra's neck with both hands, and Lyra's face turned purple.
Seeing this, Mariam mustered up her courage and rushed out of the house, grabbing a shovel in the tool shed.
This time, with all her strength, Mariam raised her shovel high and smashed it at Zahid.
Zahid died.
Mariam convinces Leila to leave with her children and go to Tariq. In order to protect the child, Mariam chose to take care of it all by himself.
As soon as the morning dawned, Mariam voluntarily surrendered, willing to be reduced to a prisoner.
Until the end of her life, Mariam did not regret the choice she had made.
She came from a humble background, was a weed, and was "something that people don't want." But when she was about to leave this world, she was a woman who gave and received love.
After the war, Leila and Tariq were involved in the reconstruction of the orphanage. Leila heeded Mariam's call, and she threw away her hatred to devote herself to the work of post-war reconstruction.
Leila is pregnant again, and she and Tariq decide: if it's a daughter, call her "Mariam".
I've seen such a sentence:
Until the day comes when God reveals a better future to mankind, the entire wisdom of mankind can be summed up in the following words: wait and hope.Mariam endures countless hardships and is finally born to die, leaving the chance of life to her beloved Leila and her children
Leila inherits Mariam's "legacy", and with love and longing, she runs to a splendid country as bright as a thousand suns.
Mariam's life will continue in another way.
Love never dies.
The name "A Thousand Splendid Suns" is beautiful.
It comes from a verse by a poet named Saiyb:
People can't count the bright moons on her roof, or the thousand brilliant suns behind her walls.Mariam is like a meteor that illuminates Leila's sky, and her world is fleeting, fleeting. Leila, who survived the hardships, chose to carve Mariam into the depths of her soul and never forget it in this life.
Two women with the same disease, even if they are beaten by life, they still have good thoughts in their hearts and are born to the sun.
In this life, people are either experiencing suffering or on the way to suffering.
We cannot extend the length of life, but we can expand the breadth of life.
Accumulate goodness and become virtuous, and prepare the sacred heart.
Kindness is the most noble decency of a person.
Even if the years are stained with dust and mottled with suffering, we must live vigorously in this moment with good thoughts.
For the rest of our lives, may we all be accompanied by kindness, walk through the cold winter, and usher in the morning sun of warm spring.
Start planning for my 2024