Janet in Orange Isn't the Only Fruit has never drifted along, nor has she been overwhelmed by powerful emotional and social forces. Years later, author Janet Winterson said in a media interview: "I think the biggest challenge we face every day is staying awake -- living clearly and thinking clearly."
On and off the books, "Janet" has always been the Janet we love, scarred and brave.
Memory is a thread full of knots, it is difficult to know the beginning and the end, but this is growth
"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" came out in 1985. It is the debut novel of the famous British writer Janet Winterson. Once it came out, it won the prestigious British Whitbread First Novel Award, and was later written by Winterson. He personally wrote it, adapted it into a popular BBC drama series, and won many international awards such as the best screenplay in Cannes. Now it has become a recommended book for British primary and secondary school teachers.
Perhaps in each writer's debut, the author himself can be seen more or less. The protagonist of "Orange" is also named Janet, who was also adopted from an orphanage to a devout Catholic family, and also drifted away from her family because of love. Many readers even believe that the story in "Orange" is Janet Winterson's real experience.
Janet Winterson, 59, teaches creative writing at university and owns an organic grocery store. Asked in a media interview, "Any New Year's resolutions for 2018?" She said, "Teach my cat to talk."
On this question, Winterson gave the answer in his autobiography written in 2011:
"I think the saddest thing for me about this adaptation of Orange is that I wrote a story that I could live with. The other story was too painful. I couldn't survive it."
Memory is like a bunch of knotted threads. We just disassemble it into different patterns according to what we want. Where is the most real pattern? It may have long since been forgotten because it should not be remembered and cannot be remembered, as Winterson said:
"When times are tough, people have no qualms about abandoning the past. Flesh burns, pictures burn, and memories, what's that?"
Love always comes without warning. After falling in love with a girl for the second time, Janet is isolated and punished again, but this time is different. If the first time was a repression of her emotions, then this second time was a denial of the meaning of her life as a human being. Everyone in the church, including her mother, believed that this was the evil result of her controlling the church’s power and began to oppose it. She preached, thinking that preaching should be a man's business. Ironically, before this, it was her mother who single-mindedly asked her to embark on this life path, and she always thought that this would be her destination.
"This is where I am, and my success in the pulpit is the cause of my downfall."
Janet resolutely chose to run away from home. She went to work in a funeral home and sold ice cream part-time. Later, she went to work in a mental hospital - where accommodation was available. This could not be better for her financially distressed and homeless.
After many years of wandering, Janet is on her way back.
"Ten blocks, twenty street lamps." I counted spontaneously. It's coming soon... Suddenly, I'm standing in front of my house again... I linger for a long time, then suddenly gather my courage and push open the front door.
When she passed by one by one, whether the scenes about the past would emerge one after another - those about the pursuit and betrayal of home and love.
"Home" is an ordinary word, but also a complex word. In "Olive Kitteridge", the author uses the character's mouth to say a straight-to-the-heart phrase, "Many people have no home, although they still have a home to go to."
This emotion is more subtle in Milan Kundera's "Ignorance", where the meaning of "home" is transformed into a larger sense of "hometown".
After more than 20 years of exile in France, the protagonist Irene was finally able to return to her hometown. Unfortunately, what followed was not the familiarity and stability she imagined, but confusion, confusion and sadness. In fact, for her, life in a foreign land is more comfortable, and returning to her hometown is a huge adventure.
Obviously, unlike Elena, Janet doesn't have great expectations for her hometown. She was already prepared for this.
My mother's church is still busy, and the former neighbors have gone and stayed. When Janet stood where she left, facing the familiar scene and her first love, she finally understood that "time is the greatest killer. People forget, get tired, grow old, and leave." She couldn't help but begin to doubt herself. Did you really leave. Perhaps, before leaving, there was a part of me that stayed in the same place forever, staying in any place that I have been to.
Perhaps, at some point and somewhere, we have all brushed aside our past selves.
"Some people say there is truth to the story, and others say that all sorts of things can be proven. I don't believe those claims. The only thing I can say for sure is that things are complicated and you can't find the beginning, nor Might figure out what the ending is."
Janet is far away from home and has a life of her own, but she can't cast off the shadows once and for all - that's the plot of a fairy tale. However, she always had the courage to stand up for herself and never doubted her choice. The story goes on, and that's growing up.
Nothing is impossible
Janet in Orange Isn't the Only Fruit has never drifted along, nor has she been overwhelmed by powerful emotional and social forces. Years later, author Janet Winterson said in a media interview: "I think the biggest challenge we face every day is staying awake -- living clearly and thinking clearly."
On and off the books, "Janet" has always been the Janet we love, scarred and brave.
Memory is a thread full of knots, it is difficult to know the beginning and the end, but this is growth
"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" came out in 1985. It is the debut novel of the famous British writer Janet Winterson. Once it came out, it won the prestigious British Whitbread First Novel Award, and was later written by Winterson. He personally wrote it, adapted it into a popular BBC drama series, and won many international awards such as the best screenplay in Cannes. Now it has become a recommended book for British primary and secondary school teachers.
Perhaps in each writer's debut, the author himself can be seen more or less. The protagonist of "Orange" is also named Janet, who was also adopted from an orphanage to a devout Catholic family, and also drifted away from her family because of love. Many readers even believe that the story in "Orange" is Janet Winterson's real experience.
Janet Winterson, 59, teaches creative writing at university and owns an organic grocery store. Asked in a media interview, "Any New Year's resolutions for 2018?" She said, "Teach my cat to talk."
On this question, Winterson gave the answer in his autobiography written in 2011:
"I think the saddest thing for me about this adaptation of Orange is that I wrote a story that I could live with. The other story was too painful. I couldn't survive it."
Memory is like a bunch of knotted threads. We just disassemble it into different patterns according to what we want. Where is the most real pattern? It may have long since been forgotten because it should not be remembered and cannot be remembered, as Winterson said:
"When times are tough, people have no qualms about abandoning the past. Flesh burns, pictures burn, and memories, what's that?"
Love always comes without warning. After falling in love with a girl for the second time, Janet is isolated and punished again, but this time is different. If the first time was a repression of her emotions, then this second time was a denial of the meaning of her life as a human being. Everyone in the church, including her mother, believed that this was the evil result of her controlling the church’s power and began to oppose it. She preached, thinking that preaching should be a man's business. Ironically, before this, it was her mother who single-mindedly asked her to embark on this life path, and she always thought that this would be her destination.
"This is where I am, and my success in the pulpit is the cause of my downfall."
Janet resolutely chose to run away from home. She went to work in a funeral home and sold ice cream part-time. Later, she went to work in a mental hospital - where accommodation was available. This could not be better for her financially distressed and homeless.
After many years of wandering, Janet is on her way back.
"Ten blocks, twenty street lamps." I counted spontaneously. It's coming soon... Suddenly, I'm standing in front of my house again... I linger for a long time, then suddenly gather my courage and push open the front door.
When she passed by one by one, whether the scenes about the past would emerge one after another - those about the pursuit and betrayal of home and love.
"Home" is an ordinary word, but also a complex word. In "Olive Kitteridge", the author uses the character's mouth to say a straight-to-the-heart phrase, "Many people have no home, although they still have a home to go to."
This emotion is more subtle in Milan Kundera's "Ignorance", where the meaning of "home" is transformed into a larger sense of "hometown".
After more than 20 years of exile in France, the protagonist Irene was finally able to return to her hometown. Unfortunately, what followed was not the familiarity and stability she imagined, but confusion, confusion and sadness. In fact, for her, life in a foreign land is more comfortable, and returning to her hometown is a huge adventure.
Obviously, unlike Elena, Janet doesn't have great expectations for her hometown. She was already prepared for this.
My mother's church is still busy, and the former neighbors have gone and stayed. When Janet stood where she left, facing the familiar scene and her first love, she finally understood that "time is the greatest killer. People forget, get tired, grow old, and leave." She couldn't help but begin to doubt herself. Did you really leave. Perhaps, before leaving, there was a part of me that stayed in the same place forever, staying in any place that I have been to.
Perhaps, at some point and somewhere, we have all brushed aside our past selves.
"Some people say there is truth to the story, and others say that all sorts of things can be proven. I don't believe those claims. The only thing I can say for sure is that things are complicated and you can't find the beginning, nor Might figure out what the ending is."
Janet is far away from home and has a life of her own, but she can't cast off the shadows once and for all - that's the plot of a fairy tale. However, she always had the courage to stand up for herself and never doubted her choice. The story goes on, and that's growing up.
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