the revesal of life 2014.2.16

The Reversal of Life(the book review of the curious case of Benjamin Button by Francis Scott Fitzgerald)I am always thinking about the similarities between the children and the old. They always share something in common. They all too rely on someone to support themselves, they all starting all over again, just one in the worldly world and one in the other side of the world. They are all two extremes end of the whole life. Who says life has to be like almost most of human beings, from childhood to aging till death. Is there any other possibilities? What if reversing what it is presented and treated as the original rule of nature in the whole growth of human beings. If that really happens to you, how would you treat it, positively or negatively, casually or seriously?How it all goes down?The story begins with a nameless, first person narrator and his remarkable tale begins in the summer of 1860, with Roger Button, a socially prominent man in Baltimore. Roger heads to the hospital to meet his newborn son, only to find that his "baby" is actually a 70-year-old man. It turns out that Benjamin Button ages in reverse. He was born at 70 and gets younger at the same rate that everyone else gets older.) and Benjamin takes the whole thing in stride. When Benjamin appears fifty (and has actually been alive 20 years), hemeets and falls in love with the beautiful young Hildegarde Moncrief. Then Benjamin heads off to the Spanish-American War, getting younger every year. By the time he returns, he and his son are pretty close in apparent age. Benjamin continues to grow younger and finally enrolls at Harvard when he looks about eighteen. Eventually, Benjamin is young enough to go kindergarten, and finally too young even for that. As he gets smaller and smaller, he forgets all the things he’s ever done in life. At last, Benjamin can sense only colors and the smell of milk, and finally even those small sensations fade away into darkness.How do I perceive ?"It is a pity that the best part of life comes at the beginning, and the worst part at the end,”once remarked by Mark Twain and accidentally inspires Fitzgerald to write a novel about it. Of course sure it is. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.If you’ve had your finger on the pop culture pulse in the last decade or so, yo u’ve probably heard sayings like "40 is the new 30," or possibly even "the new 20," depending on whom you ask. When you realize that Madonna is fifty and still making music videos with entertainers like Justin Timberlake, it’s pretty easy to believe in the old "age is just a number" cliché. But according to Fitzgerald's "TheCurious Case of Benjamin Button," age is much more than just a number. Not only does it dictate our physical condition, but our personality and character traits as well. Benjamin Button isn’t just born with the body of an old man –he’s born with the mind and tastes of an old man. As he gets younger, it’s not just his body that’s more active, but also his social interests and passion for life.According to Fitzgerald, like it or not, age plays a big part in identity. You are going to change as you get older, Fitzgerald tells us, and that’s just the way it goes.Which isn’t to say that life is downhill after 40. What makes Benjamin unhappy in this story is having to pretend he’s an age that he isn’t. When he’s old, he really just wants to sit around and chat with other old men. When he’s young, he’s satisfied to play with strips of brightly colored paper. In this story of a man growing younger, there may be a lesson or two about aging gracefully.People always repel against differences in life and consider what it is universally acknowledged as normal and acceptable, thus leading to a very serious consequence, that is the people who are contempted are always negative toward life. Which kind of life on earth should be presented and then appreciated? The answer is that no matter which kind is taken, life should be strode easily just as what Benjamin has done. Buttons, also Benjamin’s name, sodiversified buttons also indicate that life can also be different. Benjamin is ill-treated at early ages for his odd, wield appearance and actually his reversal growth, the most smooth period of his life is when he reaches his middle-age. He looks quite normal and even better that his peers. Gradually at last, he returns to initial time of most human beings. The difference is that he just forgets how to learn, how to walk and talk rather than never not knowing.Whether people’s fate is by accident or by design, there is not a thing we can do to about it. Whatever kind of life is given to one, the only thing is always hoping to make the best of it, or at least not the worst of it, to experience as much as one can, to see things that startling, to feel things that never felt before, to meet people holding different points of view and be widely open spiritually. Remember, you are the one, whose life is given and supposed to be proud of.。