I've read a lot**, and I really haven't read it in South Africa**, the author of this "Superfluous Man" Damon Galgett is not only a well-known author, but this book has also won several awards, such as the Commonwealth Writers' Award, so what is **good**?Who does the superfluous person in the title of the book refer to?I read this book with all kinds of curiosity and questions.
The book is mainly about an uninhabited village, where Frank, who escapes divorce, applies for a job as a doctor in this hospital that no one needs, so he has nothing to do with each other for 7 years.
Later, he took the initiative to come to Lawrence, a trainee doctor with a different personality from him, and they lived in the same dormitory, Lawrence was a naïve idealist, and he thought that as long as he did things, he would definitely change;Frank, on the other hand, is a cynical bystander, who thinks that nothing can be changed, and it is better not to do it.
No one at the hospital welcomed him, and everyone wanted him to go, but Lawrence was adamant about staying and changing everything.
As a result, during the year of Lawrence's internship, not only did it strain the relationship between colleagues in the hospital, but it also did not bring any change to the hospital, and worse, he unfortunately disappeared, that is, died.
In the end, there were still 7 people working in the hospital, but because of the arrival of the interns, there were only 4 people left.
The so-called superfluous person is actually the intern doctor Lawrence, if he doesn't come here, nothing will change, and everyone in their hospital will continue to receive ** salary every day as usual, living a life of eating and waiting for death.
But he is not superfluous, because his appearance makes Frank dare not face it, and he has been avoiding the divorce, etc., and finally facing and solving it one by one, he has moved from a confused life to clarity.
He got it to make everyone change the status quo and give it meaning.
Lawrence in the story reflects our newly graduated selves, young and vigorous, sharp in doing things, and speaking without thinking through the brain, always thinking that as long as the deep iron rod of kung fu is sharpened, the result is to face the reality and frustrate ...... again and again
In the end, we become like Frank, accepting the helplessness of life, and we have to compromise in reality, or escape, or just want to stand still, not want to change anything, and then find a refuge to live.
Life is the same, at first I liked Lawrence, I didn't like Frank, because he was a cold bylooker to anything but avoidance, very depressed, and felt very cowardly, but then I still identified with Frank and liked him, because sometimes escaping from the bystanders also represents all kinds of dissatisfaction with real life, a kind of instinctive self-defense, but I am too small to do anything, and I can't change it, then I can only live.
With a personality like Lawrence, he came here full of enthusiasm to do a career and help more people, but he died. I have to say that ideals can exist, but people cannot live in ideals and detach themselves from reality, and insist on going their own way, and the results will be very miserable.
This ** is still very good-looking, and he will bring us a lot of inspiration in life.