Intro
OK, let’s go directly to the second part of the article about Christmas gifts for college guys: books. There are many more books we will introduce today, so hurry up and take a look!
“The Alchemist”
by Paulo Coelho
If you are also confused about life, I highly recommend you read this book. At the same time, I also think this book is one of the most suitable gifts for college students. It can solve the confusion that students at an important stage of life have about themselves and the world.
I saw someone commenting on this book as “the most realistic fairy tale”, and I couldn’t agree more.
About “Destiny”
When you desire something, the entire universe conspires to make your wish come true.
Destiny is what you always want to do. All people know their destiny when they first enter their youth.
At that moment in life, everything is clear, everything is possible, and people dare to dream and desire everything they would like to see happen in their lives. However, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to prove that fulfilling destiny is impossible.
This power may seem harmful, but it actually teaches you how to fulfill your destiny. It strengthens your spirit and sharpens your will, because there is a great truth on this planet: no matter who you are, or no matter what you want to do, when you really want something, it’s because This desire arises from the Universal Soul, and this is your mission in this world.
About “Cosmic Language”
There is a language in the world that everyone can understand. It is the language of passion, of things made with love and will, of finding something that you hope for or that you believe in.
Because people are obsessed with pictures and words, they eventually forget the world’s languages.
Everything in life is an omen. There is a language in the universe that everyone understands, but it has been forgotten now. “Luck” and “coincidence”, the language of the universe is written in these two words.
Focus on the present
I’m still alive now.
When I eat, I eat with all my heart; when I walk, I just walk; and if I must fight, this day is as good a day to die as any other.
Because I neither live in the past nor the future, all I have is the present, and I am only interested in the present.
Dream search
The fear of suffering is worse than the pain itself. No soul endures pain in the pursuit of its dreams, for every moment in the pursuit is an encounter with God and eternity.
Before realizing a dream, the soul of the world always decides to test everything the dreamer has learned along the way. It does this not because it has bad intentions, but because it allows us to be with the dream and to grasp the knowledge learned in the process of dreaming. This is a moment when most people will give up. In the language of the desert, we call this “dying of thirst when the date palms appear on the horizon.”
The eternal topic of love
This is the purest language in the world and needs no explanation. Because the universe continues its course in infinite space without explanation.
At this moment, all the boy can understand is that he has come to the woman in his life without any words, and the girl should also understand this.
When two such people meet and their eyes meet, all the past and all the future lose their importance, and all that exists is the moment itself, and the uncanny certainty that everything under the sun is created by the same person. Written by hand.
It is a hand that awakens love, a hand that forges the same soul for those who work, rest and seek treasure under the sun. Without all this, human dreams have no meaning.
Love never stops a man from following his destiny. If this happens, it is because it is not true love, not the kind of love that the language of the universe speaks of.
“Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood”
by Trevor Noah
Trev. Noah was born in South Africa, where apartheid prevailed, and interracial marriage was banned. Being neither entirely black nor entirely white made him face discrimination in the local area. Not being recognized and unable to find a sense of belonging made Noah, a mixed-race child, feel like he was born a criminal.
However, he became a very popular comedian under the influence of his mother.
Bill Gates said: “Noah’s mother is a real hero. The best gift she gave her child was to liberate his mind and let him learn to see the world from his own perspective.”
Through childhood experiences again and again, Trevor discovered that words are more powerful than skin color in establishing connections with others. He said: “My skin color will not change, but I can change your perception of my skin color.” I may not look like you, but if I talk like you, I’m the same person as you.”
A childhood full of tragedy and irony, as well as his talent and hard work in language, combined into the basis and elements of Trevor’s comedy, won the love and recognition of Americans in the United States, eighteen hours away by plane from South Africa. White or black.
“The Great Gatsby”
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The famous fiction, also has a movie of the same name.
This novel poignantly and sincerely describes the disillusionment of a dream. At the same time, it perfectly predicts the tragedy of the author’s own future fate.
A male protagonist who counterattacked with a dream seemed to have touched heaven for a time, but in the end he was defeated by the superior. After the man fell, the song ended and everyone dispersed.
The overall writing style is restrained and calm, rich in musical beauty, and there are many puns. The most exquisite thing is naturally the beach monologue at the end. But there are many exquisite details.
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
by Harper Lee
Growth is always a troublesome proposition. Sometimes the growth is slow, like a stream singing a ding-dong song, but sometimes it is so sudden, like a heavy rain… The three children experienced unexpected growth because of several unjust cases in the small town – pain and Confused, sad and angry, but also tender and touching. This is a coming-of-age classic about love and true knowledge.
Life before reading this book is really different from life after reading it. I have been wondering what is education. Is wearing Armani more educated than wearing Baleno?
Later I realized that wearing Armani is indeed more dignified than wearing Baleno, but the upbringing is out of the question.
So what exactly is education?
After reading “To Kill a Mockingbird”, I understand: education is too complicated, but justice should be the first thing, and justice is a kind of education.
“The Catcher in the Rye”
by J.D. Salinger
The protagonist is 16-year-old middle school student Holden Caulfield, one of the earliest antiheroes in contemporary American literature.
Holden was born into a wealthy middle-class family in New York. The teachers at school and his parents forced him to study hard in order to get ahead and buy a Cadillac in the future. What he did in school all day long was talk about women, alcohol and sex. He couldn’t stand everything around him. , he had no intention of studying hard, so he was always punished. When he was expelled for the fourth time, he did not dare to go home, so he wandered alone in New York City, the most prosperous city in the United States, for a day and two nights, staying in small hotels and visiting nightclubs. With his promiscuous girlfriend, he spent time boredly in the movie theater, confusedly hired a prostitute, and couldn’t help cuddling with his vain girlfriend. At the same time, he was very depressed inside, trying to escape from the hypocritical adult world to find a new girlfriend. The experience and feeling of criticizing purity and truth. This extreme mental contradiction that could not be reconciled finally caused him to completely collapse and lie down in a mental hospital.
The reason why “The Catcher in the Rye” is valued is not only because the author created a novel artistic style and narrated the whole book in the first person voice of a teenager, but also because of the essence of the spiritual civilization of capitalist society. In addition to material life, people also need spiritual life, and in a relatively wealthy society, spiritual life is often more important than material life.