I still remember how unforgettable story of two sisters in The Nightingale was. Known as queen of American novels, Kristin Hannah brought a piece as touching as The Wind from Four Sides. When protagonist becomes a single mother, and disasters he faces become same terrible economic depression and natural disasters, even if he was not loved by his relatives, respected by society or favored by earth, as long as he has love in his heart, It can also form hope and hold on to life.
Elsa was an ordinary city girl, tall, thin and not beautiful enough, but she was forced to leave school at age of fourteen due to a somatic illness and spent most of her time in boudoir. In 1921, in an American village, when a woman turned twenty years old , her hopes were beginning to fade. When she was twenty-five years old and unmarried, she was talked about by people around her for an old lady. Being a good girl for over 20 years, Elsa still decided to rebel one day. She slipped out of house at night and met a boy named Rafi who was about to go to college, but some natural relationship between men and women made her pregnant, pregnant. Angry parents left her at Lafitte's house and they have since ended their relationship. Lafitte could not go to university and just got married. Elsa from city also had to start learning agricultural work, and she tried to be a good mother and husband. , The role of wife.
Thirteen years later, Elsa had a daughter, Loreda, a son, Ante, and a husband full of utopias, immature, and not loving enough. At that time, too, there was Great Depression. and beginning of Great Drought. Lafitte could no longer bear dry land and hopeless life, so she took train to leave alone. Loreda also hated her mother all time, thinking that Elsa was tough, boring and cowardly, and it was she who made her father leave. But Elsa still takes care of children and parents of Lafitte, she loves ground under her feet, although now grass does not grow, and sandstorms continue. But Ante's dust pneumonia finally made Elsa brave. She drove a truck with her children across half of the United States, but California, said to flow with milk and honey, has long been a gathering place for refugees. worse than expected.
In fact, in this story, in addition to worrying about plight that Elsa faced, she was waiting for moment when life could see light, but that moment never came. In book, Elsa experienced transformation from daughter to wife, from mother to soldier. Until end, this mother did not receive favor of life, but several times she overcame her own weakness for sake of her children, and used her kindness, diligence and determination. Patience infects others. #Header Contest#
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