"My Dear Sweet Orange Tree": A story that moved hundreds of millions of readers to tears 01 Content Introduction 02 Author Profile 03 Original Golden Sentence

Hello readers, the book I want to introduce today is "My Dear Sweet Orange Tree".

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It is a rather autobiographical children's novel, in which the writer accurately "imitates" the tone of a five-year-old boy, recording a warm and sad slice of life.

Five-year-old Zeze is smart and precocious, this naturally sensitive boy, likes American Western movies, likes to sing, always rehearses the unsatisfactory and wronged in his life in his "fantasy world", he even found a "sweet orange tree that can talk", and whenever he is punished, he goes to talk to the sweet orange tree...

Until one day, he discovered "his favorite person in the world" - Old Portuguese.

Old Portuguese replaced the "little sweet orange tree" and became the object of his most missed conversation.

He found that he could also feel tenderness and love in real life, but the bad news suddenly came: first he had to cut down the small sweet orange tree because of road construction, and then the old Portuguese suddenly suffered a car accident.

The love of that fantasy world, that love of real life, all suddenly left him.

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Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920–1984)

He was a legendary Writer of Brazil, who grew up in his uncle's house, like his five-year-old boy Zeze, who also learned to read and read on his own, and won swimming and football championships at the age of nine.

He was active by nature, having studied medicine and later painting, law and philosophy. He is a travel enthusiast and has traveled extensively in Europe and Brazil.

He has worked in professions that are beyond the imagination of ordinary people: fishermen, teachers, models, dancers, waiters, film and television, drama actors, etc., and many of the characters and scenes in his works come from his rich life experience.

One of his creations is often mentioned, and it is also a key to understanding the meaning of his work: "Literature is the most complex art, because it gives the work the colors and lines of the painting, the sound and melody of the music, and the dynamics."

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Happiness is having a brilliant sun in the heart, and this sun illuminates everything happily.

- Quoted on page 207

Now, I really understand the meaning of "pain", "pain" is not being beaten to the point of fainting, not having my foot cut through a glass ballast and having stitching surgery.

"Pain" is the pain of the whole heart, the secret that a person cannot tell anyone until he dies. It makes people weak on all fours, depressed, and have no desire to move their heads on the pillow.

- Quoted on page 240

Dear old Man, it was you who taught me the tenderness of life. Now, instead, I send out star photos and pinballs, because I know that life without feeling tenderness is not wonderful.

Sometimes I feel happy in my tenderness; sometimes I feel lost, and this happens even often.

- Quoted on page 216