Is The Wind in the Willows just a children's book?

National Day holiday, unit duty nothing happened, I put the British writer Kenneth. After reading Graham's "The Sound of the Willows", I still think the story is quite good, you can change the name to "The Adventures of Mr. Toad", but that lacks the style of mr. Toad's three sincere friends, Water Mouse, Mole, and Badger, because the tone of the story at the beginning is the pastoral riverside animal life, very slow, very leisurely, slowly to Mr. Toad's nervousness, absurdity, fast pace, so I asked my daughter if she liked "The Sound of the Willow Forest"? She said generally, too wordy, too childish, is to tell a "rich second generation" Mr. Toad story, Dad how can you be interested in this book? I said that I read books differently from you, and like to go back to the source, because the book "Mr. Toad Sees a Psychiatrist" is good, so I want to see "The Wind in the Willows" and get to know the author Kenneth. Graham's life experience felt that he was really not simple.

Writer Kenneth. Graham was only 5 years old when his mother died, his father was a lawyer but was an alcoholic, his life was unstable, and all four children were sent to relatives to raise. When Graham was 9 years old, he lived with his father on the Banks of the Times to settle down, but by the age of 20 he entered the bank to work, did not go to college, and did not have a good relationship with his peers. Because his family didn't have the money to let him continue his studies, he had to work to support himself first. He loves to write in his spare time, making friends and running to the countryside whenever he has time, nostalgic for the idle time he spent in the countryside with his grandparents as a child. He married at the age of 38, his wife was 3 years younger than him, and two years later he had children at the age of 41, but the son was blind in his left eye and strabismus in his right eye. The couple did their best to cultivate their children, "The Wind of the Willows" is said to be the child when he was 4 years old, because he had to go to the field with the tutor, Graham wrote fairy tale letters to his son, and later compiled and published a book, so the author is very loving, as he wrote the story, although the world is cruel, but as long as a person is not bad in nature, has true friends, and reforms himself, life will become beautiful and meaningful. The author's childhood is not very happy, but he tries to give the best of the child's childhood, although the child is flawed, but the adults love him, but the real fate is never a fairy tale, Graham's son personality is like the "Mr. Toad" of "The Wind in the Willows", some capricious, arrogant, and has not been able to reform, in his 20s, he committed suicide on the track, which may be related to the couple's over-doting on children from childhood, in short, the reality is tragic, mediocre, and the feeling contrast with the "Liulin Wind" novel is huge. After learning this, I re-read the ancient poet Su Shi's "Washing'er Poems" in China: "Everyone has adopted children and hopes to be smart, and I have been mistaken for a lifetime by wisdom." May the child be foolish and reckless, and have no calamities and no difficulties to the secretary of state. ", is it understood that what parents want most is actually the child's peace, happiness, first adults have a good character, as for the success of children need extraordinary talents, to overcome difficulties, cruel competition and different opportunities to do, do not dare to expect.

I read "The Sound of the Wind in the Willow Forest" mainly to lament Mr. Toad's shortcomings but did not know it, but he was constantly in trouble but played a little clever, witty and escaped,...... It's funny and cute, because everything is not predicted in advance, or can be planned in a strategic plan, but personality, just like the Western proverb "character is destiny", the interesting thing about life is that he is an adventure from birth to death, and everyone is a hurried visitor to this world. This is also the novel "The Sound of the Willows" although written around 1800, but a hundred or two hundred years later we still read it is still interesting, endlessly evocative, do not feel that the story is outdated and old-fashioned, I think this is the writer Graham's words to the heart of the place, but also the charm of literature.