Molly is one of the protagonists in The Orphan Train. She has been through so many ups and downs that she is used to the disaster from heaven. Once things go well, she feels at a loss.
Molly stole a yellow book Jane Eyre in the library, which is her favorite novel. She longed for it, but when she passed the burglar detection door, the alarm sounded ... and she was fined 50 hours of social work, otherwise she would probably be sent to the juvenile detention center.
When she was eight, her father died in a car accident, and her mother was arrested and imprisoned when she was nine. After losing her loved ones, she was helpless. In the next eight years, she began to move to more than a dozen adoptive families, but none of them could keep her alive.
Because she has experienced too much and gradually learned more, she also began to learn to disguise herself and try to keep a distant distance from the people around her, and Jack seems to be an exception to her.
With the help of Jack and Jack's mother Terry, she needs to help the old lady Vivian clean up the clutter in the attic. Under the communication with Vivian, she discovered a series of stories behind this gray-haired old man.
It turns out that Vivian has the same identity as her, that is, an orphan. Ninety-year-old Vivian is the most important person in this book in my opinion. Molly met her by chance and slowly began to have Vivian's memory journey. Boxes of sundries in the attic are probably the veins of Vivian's memory.
After Vivian's family was driven out by their grandparents, in order to survive, the whole family moved to new york by boat. And her father didn't have a good job and became a dishwasher. He thought their life would get better gradually, but this is life. When you just have hope, it will give you a blow. In a fire, her parents and twin brother both died. Another sister, mercy, was taken to hospital. ...
1. Find that warmth and sense of belonging.
Vivian's original name was Neve Bauer. Later, the Bournes who adopted her gave her a new name-Dorothy. She didn't have a chance to go to school there, but she continued to work for the couple: one of her daily chores was to clean the front porch, steps and walkways, rain or shine until it snowed. Mrs bowen is a gloomy and cold person. The only reason why she can adopt Vivian is that the sewing room is short of manpower, and Vivian can just meet their needs. When she arrives at the Bourne couple's house, she must arrange everything she wants.
Nevertheless, she is still strong, because she needs a place to stay, which is much better than being abandoned and wandering outside ... Bournes can't give her the sense of belonging and warmth she wants, and she will look for it in other women in the sewing room, even though she knows how incomplete and illusory that warmth is.
Later, because the Bournes began to go bankrupt, one woman after another was forced to leave, and little Vivian didn't escape this unfortunate experience, even though she wanted to stay because she didn't know whether anyone was willing to adopt her. ...
Knowing that you are unloved and uncared for will always be an outsider-what a miserable childhood.
2. Abandoned, forgotten and hurt.
Mr Sorensen, the agent of the local Children's Aid Association, found Vivian's next adoptive family-the house of Mr. and Mrs. Trosen. This family is in ruins, and Mrs. Trosen has a baby to be born in a few months, and three children are crawling around on the floor. Meanwhile, Trosen has no job. At a difficult stage for everyone, the family wants to adopt Vivian, but only needs her meager strength.
I have to take care of several children and keep washing clothes, quilts and sheets full of lice, while Mrs. Trosen sleeps all day and is lazy. What makes people even more angry is that the woman is disgusted with everything Vivian has done, and Vivian can feel very sensitively that the hostess doesn't like her.
But fortunately, Mr Trosen was able to get her to go to school. She is happiest when she is at school, because she can temporarily escape from a family without existence. At school, she met a gentle teacher, Miss Carson.
Until one night, Mr. grotte wanted to violence Neve. All this was seen by Mrs. grotte, who kicked Neve out of the house.
Vivian knows that she can't live in this family, so where can she go?
Hearing Mrs. Trosen's crying, Vivian ran out almost crazily, and left everything she had in this world behind before she even forgot all her clothes.
The only trace of her childhood was left on the rough floor of the living room in the air.
The next morning, people found Neve on the porch of the school. Miss Larson listened to Neve tell the whole story.
Miss Larson insisted that the Children's Aid Society help her never find a host family again. The suffering is not over yet, and all the pain is in Neve's heart, so she can't talk. She is helpless in her world.
With the help of Mrs. Murphy, Miss Larson's landlord, they helped Neve find a court where she could be taken in. Never will never set foot in a new family and accept a new environment again. The future is unknown to her.
The Nelson family provided Neve with comfortable living conditions and managed their department store for the Nelson couple. Nelson and his wife also sent Neve to school, and Neve gradually integrated into this new home.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson once lost their daughter, whose original name was Vivian, so they decided to adopt their daughter's name-Vivian. In Neve's mind, this name has long been less important to her. A few years later, Nelson and his wife formally adopted Neve, who became Vivian and Nelson's family.
They will discipline her and care for her. The past has become the past. What was left to Neve before was only the Carrada necklace left by grandma, and nothing else.
Later, nineteen-year-old Vivian met a "German boy" who took good care of her on the orphan train. Only then, the German boy's name was not Hans, but Luke Maynard, but apart from his name, they recognized each other.
In ten years, Neve and Hans grew up in different environments.
But they will never forget each other's existence. The reunion at this moment seems to be arranged by heaven, and they can no longer live without each other. They got married, settled down in Hemingford County and helped the Nelson family run the store together. This loss and recovery made Vivian full of gratitude and cherish for life.
The following story will not be analyzed.
I hope Vivian can live a stable life in her new home, but I only see her working hard for her estranged "parents" again and again to support her family. This is not to adopt orphans, but to get free labor. The so-called Children's Aid Association is a broker's business.
I felt helpless when I saw Vivian had to bear the coldness and malice of others because she relied on others. When I saw Vivian almost raped by her adoptive father and walked in the snow all night, my heart was full of anger; When I saw Vivian and her friend "German Boy" reunited on the orphan train, I couldn't help feeling happy. When I saw Vivian know that her lover died and immediately sent away her newborn child, I had mixed feelings and a little understanding in my regret.
Unfortunately, those children became orphans. Sometimes they are too sensible, they will learn to disguise themselves and pretend to feel the same way, but I believe that the sunshine of life will slowly project on them.
They will be strong and brave.
May all orphans in the world be treated gently by the world.
Although not all parting can expect reunion, the departed will come back in another way.