John Irving’s The Cider House Rules

John Owen's cider house stipulates that modern society does not support love, happiness is impossible. Webester's dictionary defines happiness as "state of happiness or satisfaction". Three types of love that meet your needs are family love, romantic love, and friendship. In John Owen's "Cider House Rules", Melloni's bitterness prevented her from fostering these forms of love indispensable for true happiness. Her hostility towards others hindered her from developing her family's love.

The title of John Owen's book "The Cider House Rules" comes from Apple Orchard's set of rules at Apple Garden. Even though you can not read it, Olive Worthington publishes these rules every year for seasonal workers. This rule instructs workers not to take specific actions such as operating a grinder, smoking in bed, sitting on a roof of a cider while drinking (Irving , 1985, p. 272). However, these rules are often broken by workers including Mr. Ross.

John Owen contains "Cider House Rules" and "Based on Garfield's World" in the first six novels, but it is a storyteller full of fun and happy talent. His values ​​are too simple, he is a natural crowd, and he is better with his way to fight evil. Like a fascinating scene of a student against a tyranny political scientist, he could be very interesting. It is already very suitable for movies, I just laugh in the movies. However, Mr. Owen is very serious in politics and sacrament in most cases, and has the same ease and virtue. This book is as silly as the most ingenious mystery story - this is the best. But it is not ironic at all

In contrast, a movie using a more realistic abortion story is the 1999 film "The Cider House Rules" based on John Owen's novel. Michael Caine and Tobey Maguire are starring, and the movie is the story of an orphanage managed by obstetrician. This film was set in the first half of the 20th century when abortion was still illegal. In the movie, Michael Caine plays the role of Dr. Larch and teaches Homer Wells, an orphan of Tobey Maguire, how to become a doctor and to do abortion. Homer became a talented obstetrician, but suffered from the morality of abortion. This movie is not perfect to draw an abortion, but it is better than a movie like Juno. Unlike Juno, which discusses abortion in only one scene, the theme of abortion is "Apple House Rules". The rhetoric used in "Cider House Rules" is much better than the rhetoric used by Juno.