The Way Home (0)

Reading reflection 12/19/06
Title: The Way Home
Writer: Sue Leather
This book is about eight journeys which change lives forever. Every story is touched and helps me think more about the meanings of life.
The Way Home: Alex had a nice husband she went on many trips from time to time. In one of her journeys, she bumped into an attractive man, Stefano . After a nice talk, he asked her to stay at the same hotel and the same room. At the time she agreed, it just began her betrayal and she didn’t know how to stop it. Remembering her childhood, she was very frighten about her mom’s betrayal and ran away in a long distance from home. And now, she was going home, she was beginning to believe that only her journey home would help her to bring her betrayal to an end……
Betrayal could happen so easily, that’s why more and more people have extramarital relations recently. But, it’s really hard to find something that good, and really easy to lose it. Just consider pro and con, and then keep what you really love. However , distance makes everything clearer; you can only see the whole when you are far enough. Take Alex for an example, as she had travelled ever further outwards, she found the answer .
The Nature of Truth : Annie was a successful author and she met an old friend , Jane , on the train .
Things change a lot, even if you had settled down. Jane had the boyfriend in collage and they soon got married after graduated. At first , they had a happy life, but one year later, Jane’s husband had extramarital relations and divorced with Jane. In a summary, what will life be in the future? Future is not to see.
Just the facts: Reporter was Lisa’s first job and now she was going to write an article about Gary who killed a judgment in town and Gary was sentenced to death . However, Gary said he didn’t kill that man. All of Lisa’s associates thought prisoners always emphasized they were innocent , so Lisa’s boss just wanted her to write an article about how bad Gary was. Actually, Gary wasn’t the murder ; the real killer was the judgment’s daughter. It’s too late …Gary had been sentenced to death……
How power can do everything, even execute an innocent man. It’s all our faults. We could no longer recognize the truth, and even didn’t speak out. We let power to do everything.
Winter in the Desert : the woman , Lee, picked up a stranger , Jed, and saved his life in the desert. But soon she discovered this stranger was a killer, who killed her unfaithful husband.
It was relief that you have when you find something precious you thought you’d lost , after a long search, you find cool, sweet water in the desert.
The Knowledge : A taxi driver , Ricky, picked up a man called himself “ Bruce Lee”, and this “Bruce Lee” taught him the true meaning of fighting. He said,” Don’t think that fighting is about aggression. You don’t realize that it’s about being strong enough to walk away”.
After this strange thing, Ricky came home early and found his wife had another man. Ricky was too angry and felt like killing that man, but recalled what Bruce taught him, he calmed down and let his wife went away. He rethought his life and his ambition, he didn’t want just be a taxi driver. He entered a collage, and then ran his own business.
It is never too old to learn. Knowledge is everything.
Fifteen hundred words : Abi was a film writer, she used to created thrill story, but now it’s time to changed her favor . One day, she took a bus with her boyfriend. They met a poor man begged for a toonie. Abi gave him right away, but her boyfriend was ruffled and hit that beggar. All the passengers in the bus sympathized with that old man. Abi soon broke up with her boyfriend and wrote these things into a story, a fifteen words story. A bus drive changed her life and work forever.
It can be slow and insistent, like waves on rock. Until one day the rock is no longer there .
North Sea Eyes : At the first sight when Harry saw Ria, who was a tram driver with beautiful eyes, which the exact color of the North Sea. Harry followed her and saw her from a distance from time to time. Until one day, he found that Ria was a different girl, very different. Actually, she was a man……
Don’t choose a book by its cover ; don’t judge a person by his face . Do not trust the stranger until you really know that person’s background,
End Point: There strangers, having different backgrounds, stayed in the same motel. But a crazy murderer, Joe, came in and shot all the people in there for no reason ……
Joe was put in jail before, after freeing from jail, he married Rita and he was arranged by his father -in-law to work in a hotel restaurant which was founded by their relative. One day, Joe was scored by his boss and he was out of sort. However, he had a high temper so he hurt his fellows. In addition, he took a train to Austin, where the motel was, he didn’t know why he did that, he just want to get rid of everything. While he entered the motel, the clerk at reception said that the motel was full , something inside Joe broke. He was out of sort again. He went crazy, shooting everyone dead……
As a mater of fact , I don’t really understand what the author tries to convey the meaning of this story. Everyone was dead in the end. As I think twice, I suggest that maybe he wants to tell us accident could happen every time and everywhere . Like these people being killed, they didn’t have time to say goodbye to their love ones; they didn’t realize that the motel was their final destination, their end point. In sum, we should cherish our time.
Every journey can change your life or your explanation for life meaning. You might bomb into a person who gives you an idea or help you change you life. In sum, go traveling frequently and stretch a field of view.