Narrow Gate

Regarding commenting on this book, I feel that I can write a lot of words, but it is not very suitable, so I want to be concise and concise. I hope that the trivial words can have some awareness. If it can resonate, the better. I accidentally talked about this book with a friend a few days ago, and one point I accidentally brought up was very novel: Alyssa and Jerome, the communication between them when they were young and budding, was very similar to modern online communication. Even strangers could have a lively conversation, talk about everything, and talk about everything. However, when they meet offline, they may be afraid of society or worried, and their words and actions seem to be less enthusiastic and revealing, and the unfettered and wanton true passion on the Internet can no longer be found. What I want to express is that in the society we live in, due to the constraints of etiquette and education, emotions have not necessarily been unrestrained since ancient times. They are mostly restricted by family status, well-matched families, and matchmakers. In this cultural and educational background, emotions that cover up identity appear to be broad, and after identity is substituted, emotions become a "narrow door" again. Fortunately, internationalization has a positive impact on this. This book is a tangled description of love, family affection, friendship, etc. Under a specific historical background. If you want to understand the constraints of religious intervention on love, want to explore the entanglement between sensibility and rationality, want to explore the sacrifice of love and marriage, etc., You can read it. Thank you.

The narrow door comes from the Bible: "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for the wide gate and the high road lead to destruction, and many people walk in, but the narrow gate and the narrow path that leads to eternal life are found by only a few." In the story of the mother's unfaithfulness in marriage and the "practical ease" of the sister During the period of happiness, Alyssa's values had a profound shock, which gave her a unique understanding of what "happiness" is, which caused her to shift from pursuing happiness itself to the path to happiness, and from yearning for happiness in the world to praying for happiness in heaven. The "narrow gate" is opposite to the broad road that leads most people to perdition. It leads to eternal life, but only a few people can find it through unremitting persistence. No one knows whether this end point really exists before reaching it. It seems to be a belief, and it seems to be a scam.

In my humble opinion: the male protagonist and the female protagonist both have the most passionate love for each other, but from the fact that the male protagonist can accept the engagement and marriage, it can be seen that he loves for the sake of love. But for the female protagonist, her love has risen to an extreme. The influence of the environment at that time made her have an almost obsessive obedience to God, so love will make her painful. The male protagonist's love is actually returned to the mortal world, but the female protagonist has regarded love as a kind of perfection, so he loves to the extreme. After being unable to accept mediocrity, they would shout "My Lord" before they died. In fact, the male and female protagonists said that it was because of each other's love that they would not fall into mediocrity. However, because of the guilt for her sister and her mother's cheating, she developed a fear of ordinary love, which finally turned into a kind of, my love blocked the connection between him and God. As long as he doesn't love me, he can be on the same frequency with God. I think that in general, the love of the male protagonist is a kind of imagination. He imagined the female protagonist too perfectly and lived by this imagination. The love of the female protagonist is equivalent to a kind of sacrificial love, which touches oneself and achieves others. If their ending is not a tragedy, maybe the daily necessities of life will wipe out their love. If they are too obsessed with the resonance of their souls, they will feel like they are stepping on the void, which is unreal. , Just like the poems they loved, they were destined to be unable to gain true spiritual resonance in the circumstances at that time. Their love is unquestionable, but love is not too perfect after all. An overly passionate love will burn them. There is a pair of hints in the article, perhaps death is the real embrace of their souls (do you think death can really separate us?) It is very deep.

The female protagonist does not want the male protagonist to not pursue the narrow door (advance and progress) for her own sake. The male protagonist does not understand. This is not the fault of the male protagonist, because the female protagonist really thinks that it is difficult for others to catch her. She did not say anything, and then they started to torture each other... The author uses the simplest method to completely express the heroine's thoughts. From her personal perspective, it contains greatness and sacrifice, but from an overall perspective, there is only greatness and sacrifice, and empty sadness that is emotional but has no practical effect. After that, she can understand everything on her own. It brought doubts and pain to the male protagonist. The heroine is thinking about the future and the afterlife, and looking forward to longer happiness. This is the expression of extreme love.

"The Narrow Gate" made me see the complexity and helplessness of love. I deeply admire the self-discipline and pursuit of virtue of the protagonists in the book, but I also feel sorry for their love tragedy. Perhaps true happiness lies not in pursuing perfection, but in cherishing the beauty in front of you. This book made me think about my life choices and learn to balance responsibility and happiness. 💕

Apart from the core story of the entanglement and tragedy between Alyssa and Jerome, I can feel the author's delicate expressions vividly on the page, as if the years between them have passed through my mind, and the sense of process expressed in the words makes me feel like an immersive bystander...

"Try your best to come in through the narrow gate, because the wide gate and the wide road lead to hell, and many people enter; however, the narrow gate and narrow road lead to eternal life, and only a few people can find it." Nobel Prize winner Andre Gide, in this book, sincerely calls on everyone to get rid of ideological pressure and burden, and remove the constraints on themselves. Instead, try your best to spend all your energy on improving yourself, perfecting yourself, and pursuing your dreams. Only in this way can we continue to find our own narrow door leading to the few happiness.

If a person can restrain himself and pursue the noble character of loneliness, he will walk through a narrow door, but he will gain a broad ideological road.

I don't know how to put it in words, it made me uncomfortable. I felt like it gave me a blow in the head.

The love tragedy between Jerome and Alyssa makes people sigh. How delicate and sincere they are, but they are unable to be together due to various obstacles in reality. Under the guidance of religion, Alyssa even regarded herself as the "narrow door" leading to God for her cousin, and voluntarily sacrificed herself in order to fulfill her cousin's wish. We modern people are not faced with the narrow door problem. When lovers take into account factors such as real economic pressure, geographical distance, family resistance, lover's career development, etc., They consciously withdraw; two people in love cannot honestly explain their feelings to each other and eventually miss each other.

October 17, 12:18 am I couldn't sleep, I felt like something was stuck in my heart. What it is, I can't feel it. There is just a ball of energy stagnating in my heart, trying to break through my heart. But my heart is so strong and powerful that it tightly wraps this ball of air causing my heart to swell like a full-filled balloon. After watching "The Narrow Gate" in the past two days, I started to wonder, where is my Alyssa? Can I be as loyal to my love as Jerome? Their love is beautiful, at least in the early stages. If Jerome could suppress his desire to perform, Alyssa wouldn't know what her sister was thinking that night. Their love may have a beautiful outcome. I started to feel a little panicked, why on earth. I am obviously an outsider, and I only briefly glanced at the love between two people. Why am I feeling flustered for no reason? Do I have anything in common with Jerome? Mostly yes, I also long for love, and I also want to "accidentally" perform in front of the person I like. I can't describe my feelings, it's like a sadness that runs through my soul.

Alyssa and Jerome love each other deeply, but regard love as an obstacle to holiness, and are willing to spend their lives in restraint, alienation and penance. They are obsessed with the narrow door leading to eternal life, but they personally block the possibility of happiness in the world. This book reveals a cruel truth: excessive pursuit of extreme purity and sublimity often leads to the denial of human nature. Denying desires, avoiding true feelings, and taking sacrifice as noble will ultimately result in not salvation, but a life of desolation and regret. The so-called narrow gate is sometimes not the road to salvation, but the shackles of self-imprisonment.

But she would rather sacrifice herself to God than respond to my love. Can one minute of ecstasy really last a lifetime?

Anyone who loves is farther away from the narrow gate. Only those who enter the narrow gate can achieve happiness. Love and happiness are fish and cake. Whether it is Jerome, Alyssa or Juliette, every time they sit under the desk lamp, the desperate words leave behind the decayed happiness. "The Narrow Gate" is just like its name. Only after watching the painful torture in the first half can you cross the narrow gate and peek into the final "eternal happiness".

I don't know what to say, but what is certain is that after reading this book, it caused ripples in the depths of my heart, and then an inexplicable sadness.

In the face of love, neither of the two protagonists express their love directly, they both love each other in their own way, and they both hope that the other will be happy. On the contrary, because there is no direct communication between the two, it makes this love complicated. What is obviously such a simple thing makes the two go farther and farther in the end. Love must be spoken boldly

Life is a narrow gate. The narrow gate leads to eternal life. Amen!

In order to pursue the original desire for love in Alyssa's heart, the education she received since childhood made her inner torture. Jerome loved the other person and she did not respond from his perspective, but she was tortured in her heart. The two tortured each other.

Love inevitably turns to faith when it moves towards the grand and sublime. Life is a struggle between this kind of faith and reality. So another kind of love, one that is not biased toward faith, would it be better to keep hopeless love in your heart and live in the secular world from now on?

If you are close to you, you will be close to pain; if you are far away, you will be far away from happiness. The love between the two is pure, Jerome's love is cowardly but sincere, and Alyssa's love is forbearing but sincere. I think the tragedy of their love is the word "compromise" Jerome didn't want to force Alyssa to make a choice, so he gave in. Alyssa believes that only Jerome can pass through the narrow door between the two. She wants to push Jerome to God, which is also a concession.

"The Narrow Gate" tells the story of a devout girl who ruined her love and her life with her own hands because of her extreme religious obsession. It is used to accuse the massacre of human nature by distorted ascetic beliefs.

So beautiful, highly recommended

Jerome believed that the road God guided them was too narrow for two people to walk together. In fact, this was not the case. In the end, he failed to enter the narrow door. I believe that the real narrow door is not that "only one person can walk through it", but that both parties dare to love, dare to bear, and dare to face each other's true nature. Then, with flesh and blood, warmth, and human love, they overcome many difficulties and move forward hand in hand in growth.

If you are close to you, you will be close to pain; if you are far away, you will be far away from happiness. I saw a very good comment saying that the love between the male and female protagonists is like a basket of oranges, some of which are rotten but most of them are fresh. But the two people believe that only by eating rotten food can they prove their loyalty to their love, and only through pain can they approach happiness and enter the narrow door. So the remaining good oranges rotted away.

We obviously love each other so much, why not be brave? Numb love

After reading this book, I upgraded from never believing in love to being afraid of love

Is it the real person you love, or the perfect personality you fantasize about in the other person?

Her blazing heat wave did not warm anyone. Even her own heart, which was hot, became cold and desperate because of doubts about herself.

The book is very good and the translation is also very good Masterpieces always describe be

Very delicate and beautiful