Everyone Should Have a Sycamore Tree

——Book review of Flipped

2015312179 于洋

When I read this book, my feelings changed with the characters. Sometimes I was even moved to tears. After finishing it, I kept thinking, why this book touched me so much? Then I realized that every book that made me think of myself impressed me most. In the process of this book, I saw myself sometimes so persistent in something, I saw my father held me and answered my confusions patiently, I saw how my best friend had ever hurt me... ... The following contents are how I feel about this book and what I learn from it.

Do the right thing. Bryce’s grandfather was a very wise man. He ever told Bryce, “ The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life.Do the right thing.” Sometimes we are faced with choices, it really needs courage to do the right thing. At first, we may be shy or embarrassed and choose to lean back. In the long run, it will become our usual practice and shape our personality. What we should is breaking the ice. Just stand out and do the thing we really want to do, say the words that from our heart. After doing this one time, we will find how happy and released it is. Wearing a mask is so tough and awful.

You didn’t give me the best, but you give me all. In the book, there was a paragraph between Juli and her dad.Her dad told her:

“Julianna, I’m trying to tell you is I’m sorry.There was so much I want to give you.All of you.I guess I didn’t see until recently how I’ve actually provided.”

“I think you know my heart’s been in the right place, but if you line it up objectively,a man like,say,Mr.Loski adds up to a much better husband and father than a man like me does. He’s around more,he provides more and probably he’s a lot more fun.”

But Juli told him:

“Dad, I don’t care how it cooks on paper, I think you’re the best dad ever! And when I marry somebody someday, I sure don’t want him to be like Mr.Loski!I want him to be like you.”

It’s so warm and touching. It is love that makes us feel the sunshine , kindness,and warmth in the world.That reminds me of my father.When I was a little girl, my family went through a tough time. We were too poor to buy me any toys , beautiful clothes, or delicious snacks. As I grow up, the situation becomes better and better in the efforts of my parents. But dad often felt guilty and said something like he didn’t give me I should have. Actually, I feel very satisfied and happy. Because he and mom are both kind and warmhearted people and they educated me to be like this. They seldom have arguements and provided a harmonious, loving home for me. We love and care about each other all the time.That is the most important thing.

No one can compare with the one you love. How do you feel when you fall in love with someone? There are many descriptions about it in the book:

“My heart stopped. It just stopped beating.And for the first time in my life, I had the feeling, like the world is moving all around you,all beneath you, all inside you, and you’re floating.Floating in the midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person’s eyes.They’re connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.”

That’s a wonderful and beautiful paragraph, which is exactly the feeling of heartbeat, pure and clean.

When Bryce flipped:

“My heart lurched. What was she laughing about?What were they talking about?How could she sit there and look so...beautiful?”

It’s obvious he was very jealous at that moment. And he kept thinking no girls could compare with her, Juli was so different. Like his granddad told him:

“Some of us get dipped in flat,some in stain, some in gloss...but every once in a while you find someone who’s iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”

That’s one of my favorite part in this book. We always say that finding our Mr.Right or Miss.Right, but what kind of person is just the right one? The one who can be the best in your heart. It doesn’t mean ignoring her or his shortcomings, but appreciating that person’s difference, making it special.

Juli was a kind girl. Maybe in the book, we tend to say she was how special, how different. Actually, she couldn’t be more ordinary. Her family was not rich, she didn’t have any super talent on anything.Then why she got so much love and happiness? She had the courage to be herself. She saw the amazing views in the tree, then she insist on protecting it; she liked Bryce, then she always followed him; she hatched the eggs, then she fed them in the yard... She did the things she thought was right and didn’t care what others said. Her family all of these experience made her cherish others’ love and care about other people very much. Such a good girl deserved to be loved.

Everyone should have a sycamore tree, in which we watch different views and become different ourselves.

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