荊棘鳥讀後感英文版
Writers of books such as Le Mis, Gone with the Wind and The Thorn Birds seemed to have all the time in the world, nothing to do but tell you a story, from the moral of the tale, the fate of the characters to details such as the color of one’s hair when the morning light strikes.
“Sit down, child. Let me tell you a story of a lifetime. Listen to me, not just for a day, a month, but a year. Keep me company and I will tell you all the wisdom I know, just listen to my story.” The book seems to say.
Some say The Thorn Birds is the Gone with the Wind of Australia. It does remind you of it, the small print, the length of the book, the expanse of the story and the fineness of the details. But I don’t see the resemblance in the souls of the two books. Meggie lived for another man while Scarlett lived for herself. One so soft you pity her, the other so headstrong you can’t bother feeling sorry for her. One can’t hold on to the man she loves, the other threw aside her one true love.
In spirit, it’s more like The Scarlet Letter. Forbidden love is always more tantalizing than romance of plain nature, always more intense with a lifetime of bittersweet aftertaste. Let’s not envision what would have happened if the fallen priest does marry the woman he loves. Reality never fails to rub the shine off any great passion. It’s the best cure to love-sickness.
Ralph, the handsome priest, so charming and perfect that from an old woman of seventy to a child of ten, no woman can escape from his pull, whether or not he does any intentional pulling. He was made for trouble, tall and attractive, but cloaked in the soutane of a priest. And above all his faith, his love for the church and for God, is there anything more frustrating than a perfectly sculptured man, trained with the elegance of a gentleman and the pureness of a saint, but thrown into the lay crowd, to be loved and adored, but not touched.
Our little Meggie steals the readers’ hearts right from the start. With its nearly 600 pages of flowing words and unrolling scenes, I remember the first scene the best. It’s the one that touches me the most. It tells you right away who is the gentle victim of the whole epic.
Little Meggie, dressed in her Sunday best, was squatting down behind the gorse bush, holding her very first gift on her fourth birthday. It was a little doll, bought from a store in town with money, with money! Meggie saw the doll in the store on her only trip to town and fell in love with it. Their lives on the raw land in rural New Zealand in the early twentieth century didn’t involve much buying, not to mention wasting money on buying a gift for a little girl, even a very good little girl.
She held Agnes, the name she gave the doll the moment she saw it. She marveled at the doll’s golden hair, her cream lace dress and her eyes that close when you lie her down and then open when you stand her up. Agnes was all the desire that Meggie knew and she sat there taking it all in.
It’s a sweet picture until the boys came into the scene. Meggie’s elder brothers saw their baby sister so engrossed that they had to poke their noses in. I knew it smelt of trouble and I wish I had the power to push the stop button and erase the boys or turn their crude minds elsewhere. But that’s not to be. Little Meggie will be hurt by little boys, just like the older Meggie will be hurt by grown men. No one can push the stop button and rewrite the scene.
The boys took the doll that was barely warm in Meggie’s hands, with their rough and dirty paws pulled the doll apart, like dissecting anything that they didn’t understand. It’s all just some plastic to them, no feelings.
My heart aches for little Meggie, so helpless, so young and so weak. She cried and begged but she couldn’t get her doll back. Tears washed down her face, blurring her entire world. On her fourth birthday, she learned what it meant to have her heart broken. And she was to know more.
Do you believe in fate? Do you believe in destiny? You know how in some movies you just know two people will fall in love even before they have a chance to speak. Like Meryl Streep and Client Eastwood in Bridge of Madison County; like Matthew and Mary in Downton Abbey. There is no other way. Ralph was bound to love Meggie. Meggie was made for the sacrifice.
But of course such a huge piece of work is not just a love story, as forbidden as it is. Maybe people will close the book with different answers to the question of “What’s the book about?” I won’t be surprised if many say that it’s about the love story between a handsome Catholic priest and a gentle woman who is used to suffering. It is the most prominent theme of the book. But it’s much more than that. It’s also about the harsh conditions of making a living in the new land of Australia in the early 20th century. It was a constant battle with droughts and sand storms and endless flies, with loneliness and helplessness in face with the severity of nature at its raw state.
I will also remember it as a book about the suffering of women, especially in the hands of men, all kinds of men. Meggie’s brothers deprived her of her first gift in life, but this grief will be forgotten in face of the many more to come. The man who thought of her as the love of his life traded her for 13 million pounds, which bought him his future career. He has loved her ever since he saw her as a timid ten year old, but it’s not enough to lead him astray from his path in serving God. For her whole life, she would feel abandoned by her Ralph. She lost, even if it’s to God.
Then there was her husband Luke, who married her for her money and took every penny, and then sent her to work as a housemaid in exchange for more money. I wonder if Meggie hadn’t felt so abandoned by Ralph and given up on love, would she have accepted this? Even then, Luke left her to make more money. She was a beautiful woman, yet somehow, not wonderful enough to hold any man. But the truth is, the men were not good enough to deserve her.
Meggie’s mother also had her scar in life. She was the daughter of a prominent family. An affair with a married man left her with a child and rejection from her family. The married man had too much to loose to marry her, or even to reveal who he was. Her own father married her and the child to one of their farm hands in exchange for taking them away. From then on, it was endless house chores and farm labor, then child bearing and raising the children.
Is there a happy woman in the story?
Even the rich old widow, Mary Carson, the most powerful figure in the region who owned all the property and money, wasn’t happy. She was also in love with the perfect priest, who was decades younger and detested her. Her only satisfaction was in knowing that the one whom she loved would be tortured. She made him choose between an inheritance of 13 million pounds and fulfilling his love with Meggie.
The only happy woman, or a woman who had a chance of being happy, was Justine, daughter of Meggie and Luke. She was rebellious and dared to go after what she desired. She always knew what she wanted and always went after what she wanted. She despised men but was lucky enough to have met one that treasured her and waited for her awakening.
But above all these, I think the author wants to write about the power of fate, the force of nature, the tendency for us to be whom we are meant to be even if it leads to suffering. I think she wants to say that all the struggle and going against the current are just people being what they are meant to be. Meggie was meant to be in love, forever, even if it meant she would be unhappy all her life, except the few times that his love for her was confirmed and their relationship fulfilled. She knew he would leave her, to seek his own destiny of being married to the church. She couldn’t change her own destiny and she couldn’t change that of another man. But she had him. She only needed it once to know that she was In love. She didn’t just love.
For that one confirmation she would suffer for the rest of her days. But just like the thorn birds, she lived for that one song to sing.
荊棘鳥讀後感800字（一）
細細口味了澳大利亞著名作家考琳。麥卡洛的長篇小說《荊棘鳥》，富有詩意的環境描寫，栩栩如生的人物刻畫，美麗而淒婉的愛情悲歌，這一切深深地吸引了我，也打動了我。但是讀後感觸最深的還是那種痛，那種無奈，那種由於自己造成的無奈，正如荊棘鳥，之所以會痛就是因為自己找的荊棘。其實這種痛我們從作者的開卷語中就能深深體會，“有一個傳說，說的是有那麼一隻鳥兒，它一生只唱一次，那歌聲比世上所有一切生靈的歌聲都更加優美動聽。
小說是一個經典的愛情故事，之所以經典，也許是因為這是一個愛情悲劇——從兩人（拉爾夫和梅吉）相遇的那一刻起，就已經註定了的悲劇。拉爾夫，一個將自己的身體和靈魂都獻給上帝的人，
荊棘鳥讀後感800字（二）
上帝創造人類，人類衍生出善與惡，上帝同時放出潘朵拉魔盒使人受到多元的挑戰，
人在完善自我之時，也即上帝對人格，生命底蘊的內在轉化。古人雲：“真知即所以為行，不行不是謂之知。”這樣說來，應盡天道無餘常與善人，然而當一種追求與神冥冥相對時，人的生命不過是自然界的一根蘆葦，任何來自自然界的渺小力量都能使其歸於毀滅。麥吉，拉爾夫就是如此，拉爾夫很象《巴黎聖母院》中的那個牧師，不同的只是形式，其情之專感人肺腑，美麗的東西不過是瞬間的燦爛，抓住一個足以樂終身。
一切束縛人的本能的宗教或法則總會在人的持久的沉默後的爆發中被突破，牧師和和尚相似。無獨有偶，《巴黎聖母院》中也著力刻畫牧師受著相思煎熬後的種種痛苦乃至扭曲的心靈，難道僅僅是巧合嗎？生理的欲望只能順勢引導，因地制宜，才能使肉體的凡俗昇華到精神的神聖。
由此種種，經典的愛情總是以悲劇而告終的。《亂世佳人》，《呼嘯山莊》，《簡。愛》，《紅樓夢》等著作能流芳百世，悲劇的意義在於把有價值的東西撕毀給人看，悲劇作家的靈性在於他以大悲的眼光透過現象看本質，由一而衍生出二乃至無數，將個體的悲昇華到整個人類的一種發自脊髓深處的寒氣來，正因為如此，他本人倒是往往樂觀的，因為他悲在品質而非數量，在本質而非現象本身。當這種悲超越了人的承受力的時候，喜劇作為一種替代品便出臺了。
真正的悲劇是一種微妙的形式，它絕非是原本美的東西結合後又因彼此的衝突而告終的那種，而是當好不容易結合後卻時常因外在壓力或內心譴責生活在如履薄冰的思想境地中，最終這種因環境或某種特殊原因的壓力而在實際上或抽象意義上分開，如羅密歐與茱麗葉，白瑞德與斯嘉麗，主人公背負著或沉重或戲謔等特性，在上帝的微笑中悄然而去，留給讀者無盡的感傷，同時卻使人心靈得以淨化。只有把一種感情放在記憶中或想像中去品味，同時使之在一種被呵護的狀態中活在當下，才是最好的，物質的或肉體接觸如果稍有不當都是對它的褻瀆。與人共用青春，但願獨自蒼老是一件很浪漫的事，愛情也一樣，如果麥吉和拉爾夫沒有結合，悲劇的味道就會沖淡，與人在逝世前仍對他們所憧憬的保留一份絕對的神秘，的確帶有淡淡的紫丁香般的哀傷！遺憾的是酸澀的，美卻是令人愉悅的，這就是悲劇的魅力。
拉爾夫愛上麥吉源於一種直覺，然而這種感覺卻支配著他的一舉一動，很難說請一見鍾情和理智思考後的真情誰更好，但猶如佛教中的密宗禪宗一樣，終能修成正果。
感謝文學殿堂裡悲劇的獨特貢獻，主人公以其悲壯，作家以其刀筆，直入人的魂魄深處，喚醒人性沉睡的或正要入睡的心底最柔軟的部分，從而有了參照物以修正自我，潤物細無聲的滋養著人的荒蕪或即將失去的精神家園，使人高雅起來，悲劇的高尚正在於以其悲成全人類之美！
——至拉爾夫死在麥吉的懷中及文中對戰後歸來的其弟兄的描寫及人物的死亡安排，作者人性化及個性化色彩呼之欲出，躍然紙上，感動之餘遂亂寫下自己的一點感受，時常感動，學會感恩，讓自己成為“人”！
荊棘鳥讀後感800字（三）
有一個傳說，說的是有那麼一隻鳥兒，它一生只唱一次，那歌聲比世上所有一切生靈的歌聲都更加優美動聽。從離開巢窩的那一刻起，它就在尋找著荊棘樹，直到如願以償，才歇息下來。然後，它把自己的身體紮進最長，最尖的荊棘上，便在那荒蠻的枝條之間放開了歌喉。()在奄奄一息的時刻，它超脫了自身的痛苦，而那歌聲竟然使雲雀和夜鶯都黯然失色。這是一曲無比美好的歌，曲終而命竭……——《荊棘鳥》
最初買下這本書是因為覺得作者麥凱洛的這段題記很淒美，花了五個晝夜讀完了這本五十萬字的長篇家世小說，頗有盪氣迴腸之感，這時的我才漸漸品出那個荊棘鳥傳說所背負的複雜的命運和情感。
克利裡家族在20世紀早期來到廣袤的澳大利亞德羅海達牧場謀生，小說的時間跨越了兩次世界大戰和經濟大蕭條，麥凱洛在這廣闊的大背景下，記敘了從1915年到1969年間發生的故事。然而故事的核心還是帕迪？克利裡的女兒梅吉和拉爾夫神父之間不可能實現的愛情。小說有關愛和命運的主題以及栩栩如生的人物刻畫為這個故事賦予了更多的內涵以及出版30年來不衰的魅力。
“最美好的東西只能用最深痛的巨創來換取”，作者通過克利裡家的滄桑和情感經歷揭示了這個道理。主人公梅吉經歷了半個世紀的人生，一個天真稚嫩的小女孩被時光洗刷得兩鬢斑白，沒有什麼可以彌補時間和青春的流逝。她曾得到過所希翼的全部，也曾陷入無盡的黑暗。她是一個有血有肉，極盡真實的普通人，我時常想起故事最後梅吉的話：“一切都是我自己造成的，我誰都不怨恨。我不能對此有片刻追悔。”
即使身處現實世界，我們每個人亦是如此，所追求的美好的東西，就猶如那最長最尖的荊棘，當我們把荊棘刺向胸膛，我們很清楚那種將至的撕心的疼痛，但倔強的我們依然會奮不顧身的這樣做。因為短暫的一生中，這才是生命的意義。
青春，應該怎樣理解？我們應當如何度過？初中時代好友就問過我這樣的問題，當時的我答不上來。後來看了《死亡詩社》這部影片，片中的基廷老師告訴我要“seizetheday”，青春就要充滿激情，放飛思想。而《荊棘鳥》又給了我答案：義無反顧地去追求，即使受傷，也不要留遺憾。再大一些，生命也同樣。當然，這樣的想法對、錯或偏激見仁見智，當現在的我看過了一些人和事，我發覺童年、青春是世界特別賜予我們每個人為了未來的不再錯而容許犯錯的時間，因此我們不必為自己犯的所有錯而買單，不必束縛起自己的內心，當情感和理智相碰撞，不必每次都屈服。當我們經受了足夠的磨煉，走過一些彎路之後，終有一天能夠唱出生命的最美樂章。
荊棘鳥英語讀後感
After reading this book I think it is necessary to share the old legend to everybody .
There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out- carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain …
Meggie Cleary is just like the bird,and Ralph is her superlative song.
I read the book then watched the movie, both of them gave me great shock, I really admire Meggie,she had the courage to use her whole life to love Ralph, never gave up. She believed that she would love Ralph only in her life. But I don’t like Meggie’s attitude to love, Ralph is a Father, and he mustn’t love Meggie, they really loved each other, but they are not destined to be together. So in my opinion I think Meggie should give in, she shouldn’t fight with God, Ralph had told her he would serve God forever, so Meggie wouldn’t win. Maybe giving up is a good choice. Their love is painful.
Tell the turth I don’t like Meggie neither Ralph, Ralph could not give Meggie happniess while Meggie couldn’t support Ralph to concentrate on his work. So they would not have happy life, they only made each other feel sad .
Frank is my favorite role. he was short but strong ,and he was one of the main labor in his family. He didn’t want to be a shepherd, but the family needed him , and he must feed he the sheep so that everybody in his family can live better. Once he escaped from home , but it wassn’t long before his father found him and take him home. I feel so sorry that he had a miserable fate. He longed for freedom but most of his life didn’t belong to himself, it’s really a pity .
Frank was different to every man in their home, he loved his mother deeply, and he always helped his mother do the housework. he dreamed to be an outstanding boxer. Frank was considerable, and he always try his best to make Meggie feel happy. As Meggie’s oldest brother, he could be worried about Meggie’s favorite doll, and he even tried to fixed the doll which was distroyed by Meggie’s other brothers. Frank and Meggie would always tell each other what they thought in their deep heart , and they are close friends.
I was so sad when I learned that Frank killed a man and he was sent to the prision. It is really a big shock to Meggie, for Frank was the only one who can listen to Meggie’s secrets. She thought she lost Frank forever. I cannot imagine how painful for Frank to spend dozens years in the prision. He once had good dream about his life, but he had to waste most of his life in prision. In my opinion it was Frank’s father that distoryed his life. His father didn’ t give him freedom, and Frank can’t had strong resistance spirits, and because he didn’t control himself and broke the law.The energitic Frank will never come to us, and he became a man who didn’t wanna talk. He began to be afraid of the world…it is really a pity.
As for Meggie, I think she was a good girl. She was beautiful and smart, but she it was wrong for her to love Ralph. Meggie was an excellent girl, she was able to find an outstanding boy to love her, but she put all her love on Ralph even she married Luke. She married Luke just because Luke looked like Ralph. Meggie wanna be a thorn bird, but I think it was too cruel to her. She was so kind that she shouldn’t stand that king of pain, and I think she was born to have a happy life. I pity for her.
Both the story of thorn birds and the legend are painful and beautiful, but not every one can be the thorn birds, because it is not our porpose to have a painful life. We are born to be happy. Olny happiness is the ture meaning of life while the story was written for us to enrich our life. It is a wonderful story.
《亂世佳人》，《呼嘯山莊》，《簡。愛》，《紅樓夢》等著作能流芳百世，悲劇的意義在於把有價值的東西撕毀給人看，悲劇作家的靈性在於他以大悲的眼光透過現象看本質，由一而衍生出二乃至無數，將個體的悲昇華到整個人類的一種發自脊髓深處的寒氣來，正因為如此，他本人倒是往往樂觀的，因為他悲在品質而非數量，在本質而非現象本身。當這種悲超越了人的承受力的時候，喜劇作為一種替代品便出臺了。真正的悲劇是一種微妙的形式，它絕非是原本美的東西結合後又因彼此的衝突而告終的那種，而是當好不容易結合後卻時常因外在壓力或內心譴責生活在如履薄冰的思想境地中，最終這種因環境或某種特殊原因的壓力而在實際上或抽象意義上分開，如羅密歐與茱麗葉，白瑞德與斯嘉麗，主人公背負著或沉重或戲謔等特性，在上帝的微笑中悄然而去，留給讀者無盡的感傷，同時卻使人心靈得以淨化。只有把一種感情放在記憶中或想像中去品味，同時使之在一種被呵護的狀態中活在當下，才是最好的，物質的或肉體接觸如果稍有不當都是對它的褻瀆。與人共用青春，但願獨自蒼老是一件很浪漫的事，愛情也一樣，如果麥吉和拉爾夫沒有結合，悲劇的味道就會沖淡，與人在逝世前仍對他們所憧憬的保留一份絕對的神秘，的確帶有淡淡的紫丁香般的哀傷！遺憾的是酸澀的，美卻是令人愉悅的，這就是悲劇的魅力。
拉爾夫愛上麥吉源於一種直覺，然而這種感覺卻支配著他的一舉一動，很難說請一見鍾情和理智思考後的真情誰更好，但猶如佛教中的密宗禪宗一樣，終能修成正果。
感謝文學殿堂裡悲劇的獨特貢獻，主人公以其悲壯，作家以其刀筆，直入人的魂魄深處，喚醒人性沉睡的或正要入睡的心底最柔軟的部分，從而有了參照物以修正自我，潤物細無聲的滋養著人的荒蕪或即將失去的精神家園，使人高雅起來，悲劇的高尚正在於以其悲成全人類之美！
——至拉爾夫死在麥吉的懷中及文中對戰後歸來的其弟兄的描寫及人物的死亡安排，作者人性化及個性化色彩呼之欲出，躍然紙上，感動之餘遂亂寫下自己的一點感受，時常感動，學會感恩，讓自己成為“人”！
荊棘鳥讀後感800字（三）
有一個傳說，說的是有那麼一隻鳥兒，它一生只唱一次，那歌聲比世上所有一切生靈的歌聲都更加優美動聽。從離開巢窩的那一刻起，它就在尋找著荊棘樹，直到如願以償，才歇息下來。然後，它把自己的身體紮進最長，最尖的荊棘上，便在那荒蠻的枝條之間放開了歌喉。()在奄奄一息的時刻，它超脫了自身的痛苦，而那歌聲竟然使雲雀和夜鶯都黯然失色。這是一曲無比美好的歌，曲終而命竭……——《荊棘鳥》
最初買下這本書是因為覺得作者麥凱洛的這段題記很淒美，花了五個晝夜讀完了這本五十萬字的長篇家世小說，頗有盪氣迴腸之感，這時的我才漸漸品出那個荊棘鳥傳說所背負的複雜的命運和情感。
克利裡家族在20世紀早期來到廣袤的澳大利亞德羅海達牧場謀生，小說的時間跨越了兩次世界大戰和經濟大蕭條，麥凱洛在這廣闊的大背景下，記敘了從1915年到1969年間發生的故事。然而故事的核心還是帕迪？克利裡的女兒梅吉和拉爾夫神父之間不可能實現的愛情。小說有關愛和命運的主題以及栩栩如生的人物刻畫為這個故事賦予了更多的內涵以及出版30年來不衰的魅力。
“最美好的東西只能用最深痛的巨創來換取”，作者通過克利裡家的滄桑和情感經歷揭示了這個道理。主人公梅吉經歷了半個世紀的人生，一個天真稚嫩的小女孩被時光洗刷得兩鬢斑白，沒有什麼可以彌補時間和青春的流逝。她曾得到過所希翼的全部，也曾陷入無盡的黑暗。她是一個有血有肉，極盡真實的普通人，我時常想起故事最後梅吉的話：“一切都是我自己造成的，我誰都不怨恨。我不能對此有片刻追悔。”
即使身處現實世界，我們每個人亦是如此，所追求的美好的東西，就猶如那最長最尖的荊棘，當我們把荊棘刺向胸膛，我們很清楚那種將至的撕心的疼痛，但倔強的我們依然會奮不顧身的這樣做。因為短暫的一生中，這才是生命的意義。
青春，應該怎樣理解？我們應當如何度過？初中時代好友就問過我這樣的問題，當時的我答不上來。後來看了《死亡詩社》這部影片，片中的基廷老師告訴我要“seizetheday”，青春就要充滿激情，放飛思想。而《荊棘鳥》又給了我答案：義無反顧地去追求，即使受傷，也不要留遺憾。再大一些，生命也同樣。當然，這樣的想法對、錯或偏激見仁見智，當現在的我看過了一些人和事，我發覺童年、青春是世界特別賜予我們每個人為了未來的不再錯而容許犯錯的時間，因此我們不必為自己犯的所有錯而買單，不必束縛起自己的內心，當情感和理智相碰撞，不必每次都屈服。當我們經受了足夠的磨煉，走過一些彎路之後，終有一天能夠唱出生命的最美樂章。
荊棘鳥英語讀後感
After reading this book I think it is necessary to share the old legend to everybody .
There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out- carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain …
Meggie Cleary is just like the bird,and Ralph is her superlative song.
I read the book then watched the movie, both of them gave me great shock, I really admire Meggie,she had the courage to use her whole life to love Ralph, never gave up. She believed that she would love Ralph only in her life. But I don’t like Meggie’s attitude to love, Ralph is a Father, and he mustn’t love Meggie, they really loved each other, but they are not destined to be together. So in my opinion I think Meggie should give in, she shouldn’t fight with God, Ralph had told her he would serve God forever, so Meggie wouldn’t win. Maybe giving up is a good choice. Their love is painful.
Tell the turth I don’t like Meggie neither Ralph, Ralph could not give Meggie happniess while Meggie couldn’t support Ralph to concentrate on his work. So they would not have happy life, they only made each other feel sad .
Frank is my favorite role. he was short but strong ,and he was one of the main labor in his family. He didn’t want to be a shepherd, but the family needed him , and he must feed he the sheep so that everybody in his family can live better. Once he escaped from home , but it wassn’t long before his father found him and take him home. I feel so sorry that he had a miserable fate. He longed for freedom but most of his life didn’t belong to himself, it’s really a pity .
Frank was different to every man in their home, he loved his mother deeply, and he always helped his mother do the housework. he dreamed to be an outstanding boxer. Frank was considerable, and he always try his best to make Meggie feel happy. As Meggie’s oldest brother, he could be worried about Meggie’s favorite doll, and he even tried to fixed the doll which was distroyed by Meggie’s other brothers. Frank and Meggie would always tell each other what they thought in their deep heart , and they are close friends.
I was so sad when I learned that Frank killed a man and he was sent to the prision. It is really a big shock to Meggie, for Frank was the only one who can listen to Meggie’s secrets. She thought she lost Frank forever. I cannot imagine how painful for Frank to spend dozens years in the prision. He once had good dream about his life, but he had to waste most of his life in prision. In my opinion it was Frank’s father that distoryed his life. His father didn’ t give him freedom, and Frank can’t had strong resistance spirits, and because he didn’t control himself and broke the law.The energitic Frank will never come to us, and he became a man who didn’t wanna talk. He began to be afraid of the world…it is really a pity.
As for Meggie, I think she was a good girl. She was beautiful and smart, but she it was wrong for her to love Ralph. Meggie was an excellent girl, she was able to find an outstanding boy to love her, but she put all her love on Ralph even she married Luke. She married Luke just because Luke looked like Ralph. Meggie wanna be a thorn bird, but I think it was too cruel to her. She was so kind that she shouldn’t stand that king of pain, and I think she was born to have a happy life. I pity for her.
Both the story of thorn birds and the legend are painful and beautiful, but not every one can be the thorn birds, because it is not our porpose to have a painful life. We are born to be happy. Olny happiness is the ture meaning of life while the story was written for us to enrich our life. It is a wonderful story.
