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Summer by David Updike

2023-09-17 13:51:50

King Solomon wisely wrote it and explained it prudently to the folk band "Binder", "There is a season and time for every purpose" (Ecclesiastes 3: 1, 8). The season usually represents the duration of your life; birth, youth, age and death. In the short story "Summer" by David Updike, the lake provides an everlasting constant testimony of the transition of Homer from one season to another and from boys to men. In the beginning, we learned that the son Homer of the family and his agent enjoyed summer fruit.

The summer story David Updike told is an idyllic age of life, responsibility is the last sentence remaining in everyone's heart. However, as with all human relations, responsibility is always present in life and is always a necessary aspect. What will happen if the leading character Homer loses some personal responsibility consciousness to maintain self-control? Homer 's behavior made him foolish inside and outside more and more. In addition, how Homer regains its reason and sense of responsibility.

At the beginning of the story, David Updike explained about the environment and atmosphere of the summer morning. That summer, Homer went to a friend's town and met a friend's sister Sandra. After seeing Sandra, he was fascinated by her beauty and loved her at a glance. When he was there, they visited several places and were kind to each other. According to the story, Sandra also fell in love with Homer. "When I read," Homer still looks at the girl sitting alone in the canoe in a dark shadow, they knew that they loved each other, but they did not say the words They put their love in their hearts, they both know that they will be separated by that time, indeed, Homer will come back someday, and they will openly open each other If you love it, it is difficult to separate.