Chapter 2 about dignity

No one wants to be poor, but poverty is not necessarily useless.It can sharpen character.There is a place in this novel that is very intriguing.Francie, who had grown up in bitterness, talked with Neeley about the little sister who was not suffering, and expressed sympathy instead, saying that poor Laurie had lost both the bitterness and the sweetness of the bitterness.I believe that many readers who have gone through the predicament and later escaped from the predicament feel the same way.People can be trapped and poor without losing their integrity and fun. The tree mentioned in is Ailanthus ailanthus.This is one of the rare tenacious trees that can grow even on concrete floors.The little girl Francie goes to the library on Saturdays, trying to read all the books in the library from A to Z, and read every one.On Sunday afternoon, she would take a borrowed book and sit at the exit of the fire escape in Brooklyn, hiding in the shade of a tree, reading a book and daydreaming.This kind of leisure allowed her to overcome the difficulties of Monday to Friday.How do poor people become happy?Their happiness is so little, and when they have it, they enjoy it a thousandfold, that you give them an ailanthus and they can see heaven.

Another gift of hard times is compassion.It is mentioned in the novel: People usually have two ways to deal with their own poverty background: "A person who has stepped out of the bottom of society through his own hard work usually has two choices. After leaving the original environment, he can forget his roots. After this environment, I will never forget my origin, and be full of sympathy and understanding for the unfortunate people who have been pulled down in the cruel struggle." Not everyone has this kind of sympathy and understanding. There are many "standing in the glass room" written in the novel. People who "throw stones" obviously come from poor backgrounds, but they take pleasure in trampling on their own kind.In the novel, a nurse in Brooklyn, originally from a poor family, agrees with a snobbish doctor and scolds poor children.

However, after Francie's situation improved later, she never forgot to go back to the candy store and do a good deed silently, giving a lucky poor kid a chance to win the big prize.People can have the same experience, but not necessarily the same mentality.The difference between people is probably here.