the strength of persistence

Pearline 2022-04-23 07:03:49

I don't actually believe in miracles and coincidences, which happen only in stories, but I believe in hard work and perseverance, and the positive energy it spreads. It all starts with a magician who convinces his children that he has magic powers—superpowers that can bring their father back. The priest's ancient checklist encourages and supports the faith of the child by which he defeats the elder child who bullies him; his movement of mountains coincides with an earthquake, and his daily face to the sun coincides with the Hiroshima events. Finally the child completes the list and his father returns. The main character's personality is more prominent when there is a contrast: the rude and inactive brother, the fat bad boy of the doctor. The people watching in the town have always been tolerant and appreciative of hard-working children, although they are just onlookers, just like uncles and aunts in the simple village of their hometown, with pity in their eyes, no one will embarrass a little boy for his persistence. The doctor's words reminded me of Forrest Gump's mother, although the results were different. How difficult is it for a woman without a job to support her family, and the eldest son is a willful person who has no sense of responsibility and will only cause trouble. The news of the father's departure made all the children's efforts in vain, and the reverse ending made people cry with joy. I cried. Although the whole world will help you as long as you work hard, the power of human beings is too small, and most of them end in tragedy in reality. No matter what, if the persistent efforts in the world create miracles and luck, something must be done.

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  • Jessyca 2022-03-27 09:01:16

    So good to cry! The little boy did a great job! May the world be at peace and there will never be war.

  • Deontae 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Faith can carry you through the toughest times of your life.

Little Boy quotes

  • Fr. Crispin: If we have faith the size of a mustard seed, we can move the mountain. If we can move a mountain, nothing will be impossible for us. Not even with ending this war... and having our love one back.

    Ben Eagle Narrator: [thinking of the magician he had seen] I already knew someone who could move a mountain. I wondered if the source of his powers was the mustard seed.

  • [first lines]

    Ben Eagle Narrator: [narrating] This is O'Hare, California. Back then it was nothing more than a sleepy fishing village, with a hill at the end of Main Street. Like you see in postcards. My story takes place on the home front, in the midst of World War II. That's me, the little fella.

    Photographer: [motioning to the youngest]

    Little Boy: Closer?

    Freddy Fox: [ribbing him] Stop causing trouble, you midget.

    Ben Eagle Narrator: Nobody in that town liked me much.

    Photographer: One, two, three.

    [flash]

    Ben Eagle Narrator: I was eight years old. But the story really starts the day I met my dad. My only friend. My partner.

    Nurse Barbara: He's a boy!

    James Busbee: Wow! He's so...

    Nurse Barbara: What? Little?

    James Busbee: Well, he'll grow. Right?