Teacher Luo Xiang once said:In fact, it is difficult for people to get out of their own prejudices, and sometimes prejudice is more terrible than ignorance, because ignorant people admit their ignorance, so they will not judge easily. But biased people are self-righteous and self-righteous, so it is easy to make judgments
I used to think that this sentence was very thorough, but I couldn't really understand it. It wasn't until I recently read Forster's Journey to India that I realized that each of us is interacting with the world with prejudices, but some people are aware of it, but some people are not.
Many years ago, Yu Qiuyu published a book called "Cultural Journey", which has a section "India, I refuse to say that it is beautiful", this paragraph is full of many sayings on the Internet, which makes us have a sense of national pride, the people of this country are not as good as us, dirty, messy, and poor are synonymous with India (if you are interested, search for it yourself, there are a lot of them on the Internet).
I thought so for a long time, but after reading "A Journey to India" I realized how shallow and narrow I am. In fact, there is no one thing in the world that can be described by a label, and if there is, it is just hearsay.
The first time I knew about Foster was when Mr. Ou Lijuan was talking about the Dream of Red Mansions, and recommended "** Face-to-Face View", and by chance, I came across "A Journey to India". I still muttered in my heart, how can Foster be as bold as Maugham, say a bunch of nonsense at the beginning, and not be afraid that the reader will run away?
When I saw the seventh and eighth chapters, I realized what the main line was, in fact, the story is not complicated, but through Foster's description, the scenery of the city of Chandilapur is displayed in front of my eyes. At the same time, the author also shows the readers the current situation of Indian life at that time.
List of high-quality authors When I looked back again, I found that the author did not write nonsense at the beginning, and every sentence he said was very useful for the subsequent content, such as the first sentence of the opening paragraph:Chandilapur has nothing to boast about other than the Malabar Caves, which are located twenty miles awayγThe climax of the story takes place here, when a young Indian man, Aziz, takes two British women who are visiting relatives in India, one is Mrs. Moore and the other is Miss Quest, to visit the Malabar caves. Mrs. Moore chose to rest at the bottom of the mountain because she had to climb the mountain, and Miss Quest was very confused because she had just been engaged to a man who had come to India from England to be a magistrate, and although she was climbing the mountain with Aziz, she was always thinking about her own marriage.
Miss Quest was absent-minded, so she asked Aziz about marriage, and she asked Aziz if she loved her wife and how many wives she had marriedThese questions were obviously too private, and since polygamy was no longer in vogue in India at the time, Aziz felt offended as a university student.
Crawling to the middle, Aziz went to the side to smoke a cigarette in order to relieve his depression, leaving the guide and Miss Quest to wait separately. When he returned, he found Miss Quest missing, for there were many caves, and he looked anxiously everywhere. But when he came out of a cavern, he found Miss Quest gone away in the car of another English lady. 
When Aziz returned to the city, he was arrested on suspicion that he had violated Miss Quest.
At that time, India was a British colony, and the British enjoyed many privileges in India, and the Indians were respectful of the British, and they longed for the British to respect them, but they felt that there was no such possibility.
And the British are full of all kinds of stereotypes about Indians. In the eyes of Indians at the time, a British man who came to India for two years would be full of prejudice against Indians, while a British woman only needed half a year.
But there were exceptions to this group of Englishmen, and one of them was Mr. Fielding, who was the headmaster of the school, who had not been prejudiced against Indians for a long time, and who was willing to have good relations with Indians, and who was willing to believe in the facts, rather than thinking that Indians were inherently sinful.
What is the final outcome of the trial, in the process of the development and advancement of the whole case, the good and evil of human nature, and the herd mentality are vividly displayed, and in the process of reading, I see others and myself. As a reader, I'm an outsider, but I'm not judging the world with prejudice.
In addition, I think that in addition to writing about human nature and race, another highlight of this book is that it is about the marriage of Miss Quest and Mr. Ronnie, which is a very good guide and reference for women in the period of marriage and love.
Miss Quest came to India to see what Ronnie was like when he was at work and how he dealt with Indians. When she arrives in India, she finds that Mr. Ronnie is rude to Indians and has all kinds of negative comments. She said that she wanted to experience the real India, and Ronnie thought that there was no need to look for trouble. Miss Quest knows that she doesn't like Ronnie that much, but she gets engaged to Mr. Ronnie soon after breaking up with Ronnie.
Miss Quest is very conflicted and doesn't know what to do about it.
Mrs. Moore, as Ronnie's mother, Miss Quest's future mother-in-law, has a lot of experience with emotional marriages, she understands Miss Quest's confusion, she chooses to reserve her opinion, and has a strong sense of boundaries.
The relationship between Miss Quest and Ronnie is also a very interesting clue, so there are not many spoilers here.
In addition, there are many golden sentences in the book, which are very thought-provoking, just to name a few:
Life never gives us everything we need when we think it's appropriate. Adventures do happen, but they never come as promised. β
The vast majority of life is so boring that it's not worth talking about at all. β
Dormant in the cocoon of work or social obligations, the human soul is dormant most of the time, and although it can record the difference between pleasure and pain, it cannot be as active and alert as we pretend. β
Forster is very good at writing, integrating small things into the contradictions between colonization and colonization, and jumping out of *** to show us all kinds of real details of the interaction between the British and Indians. Some people say that this book is also biased, I don't deny it, but in addition to encyclopedias, news and other content, most of the content carries the author's values and biases, but these do not prevent the book "Journey to India" from being excellent and great.