A few key points about the second episode are summarized.
Can Lila and Lennon continue to read (including the part about watching the sea).
Lila's novel.
Don Archie was murdered.
The plot progresses layer by layer, but every layer is opened to see the core: in this town, poverty has become an inescapable destiny. The characteristics of this era spread to everyone and became their shackles. And a patriarchal yoke will be added to the girl.
First about whether Lila and Lennon can keep reading.
Lennon and Lila are about to graduate from elementary school, and to go to junior high school will not only continue to pay tuition, but also take tuition and exams. This became the first important choice in the fate of the two girls, and it was this choice that led the fate of the two to two different paths.
At first, both families quarreled over the incident. The quarrel between Lennon's parents and Lila's brother and his father was about poverty. We don't have so much money for a girl to continue to study, even if she has an extraordinary talent and a bright mind, but these are luxury goods for the poor and false illusions. And the two girls who know nothing about their future destiny can only look at each other through the window, at the fate and unknown they face together. And this look at each other became the beginning of the bifurcation of their life paths.
Lennon's father then agreed that she would tutor for the entrance exam, but Lila's parents refused to let her continue. Even when Teacher Oliviero called Lila's mother in front of her and tried to persuade her not to waste Lila's talent and wisdom. Her mother still refused decisively. She could see that there was some regret in her mother's expression, but the submission to the fate of poverty covered up this regret. In the face of the actual economic situation, she could not make a decision, and in the face of her husband's firm rejection, she had no courage to make a decision. Poverty and the power of her father completely abandoned the girl's talents and chose the inevitable fate for her.
That's why Lila is jealous of Lennon who can continue to study, and she feels that her friends must be the same fate as herself. She just came up with the idea of lying and taking Lennon to skip class to watch the sea, so that when Lennon was found out that she didn't go to school, her parents wouldn't let her go to school. The idea of seeing the sea, the shining sea, the mysterious and exciting adventure with the unknown is indeed something that Lila's bright mind can think of, and she really knows how to get Lennon to take the bait. So Lennon was caught skipping class and was taught a hard lesson by her parents, but she didn't stop her from studying.
This also led the teacher to see Lila's careful thinking from the two truancy and the injury on Lennon's face, and scolded her in public: "Do you think you are very smart?" Smart? Smart enough to ruin someone else's future? For the teacher, Lennon did not give up her intelligence, she is very likely to get rid of the fate of poverty from knowledge, especially for a woman like a teacher who has gained an advantage by knowledge, she understands that girls in this town are inherently There weren't many chances, and such a possible talent was almost ruined by Lila's selfishness, so she was very angry.
When she was tutoring Lennon, she asked Lennon a question: "Do you know what a commoner is? When a person chooses to be a commoner, her descendants and descendants will be commoners from generation to generation." This sentence is very good Speaking of the theme of this episode, when you choose to be poor, you will never be able to get rid of poverty in your life. This kind of poverty brings people not only material dissatisfaction, but also financial constraints. Poverty will make people lose the courage to make choices and lose their awareness of the possibilities of life, and her descendants will also lose many opportunities. So it becomes a haze that has surrounded generations, you can't make a choice, you can't get rid of it . That's why the teacher didn't read Lila's novels in front of Lennon at that time, because she wanted Lennon to understand that Lila's fate was doomed and could not be changed, even if she wrote any novels, it was already abandoned Talented, even if it shines, it can no longer illuminate the way forward, and it is still possible for Lennon to continue to study.
Let's look at Lila's novel. After she showed the novel to Lennon, Lennon said it was very good. Lila asked, "Can I make money?" Actually, I bought Little Women's from Lila and the others. The motivation is to hear that the author is a woman who wrote novels and made money. Lila also wants to make money, and this desire is very strong. She lives in such a conservative and struggling family, and she has more mature ideas and bold curiosity than any other girl in town. She knows that through her own efforts, she can change her own destiny by changing her poor life and get rid of the same fate as everyone else.
It may also be that watching the sea made her discover that she could not change the fate of others, even if that person was her own friend. So writing a novel is just her first attempt to change her destiny. But in that era, it was rare for women to make money. What kind of money could a child write in such a small town? So she said the novel was not well written. This kind of poverty has inspired her to explore again and again. It can be said that her talent may be constantly stimulated under the predicament of poverty.
Therefore, she pays close attention to the life and disputes of two relatively developed families in the town. The Solara family and the Don Archie family. Money gave them status and authority that everyone feared. The episode ends with the murder of Don Archie. Lila tells Lennon about her imagining of Don Archie being killed, and in her observation she sees the real murderer, the Mistress of the Solara family. But in the end it was a poor carpenter who had had a holiday with Don Archie.
The traditional job of the carpenter was robbed of its source of survival by the rising capitalist grocers, and is now another rich scapegoat. The life of the poor is destined to work for the rich, so when he was taken away, he could only shout "I'm innocent" without even knowing who killed him.
Poverty has given the background to the lives of most people in this small town. They have been raped, denied, and threatened by the dust raised in the town. They cannot get rid of such a fate, which casts a layer of doom on the whole plot. Tragic characteristics of the times, but it is precisely in this way that we can see how the two girls struggle, grow, break through, and return step by step in such a predicament.
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