Ruiqi Cao(Pollyanna)
English 1110.01, MWF 10:20—11:15AM
Professor: Cathy Ryan
Assignment: The lost thing
February 6, 2017
Lost in Dilemma
Et je puil devnir comme les grandes personnes qui ne s’interessent puls qu’aux chiffres.
(I may as same as other grown-up– I don’t care about anything except interests.)
—-Le Petit Prince (The little prince)
There is a dilemma between childlike innocent time and grown-up busy life, which is the main thing I learn from the movie—The lost thing. A boy can always have a lot of interesting things in his childhood memory. In one summer, the boy found out a thing on a beach. He played with it for most afternoon with quite a lot fun. He forgot the time, pressure and wrong things. However, this is a lost thing because nobody notice this thing. Most of adults are busy with their own staff. They don’t see and care about other things. Only child can feel the lonely and sad of the lost thing. With a pure and innocent heart, Children don’t do things only for a pay or interest. They are willing to care a tiny and lost thing for no reasons, and they use a friendly heart to brace everything in the world.
Furthermore, the hearts of grown-up are cold; however, the hearts of children are warm. The adults always use a so-called scientific and logic explanation to define a thing. They believe they are authority. With a “comprehensive” ability and perfective experience, they can figure out everything. Pete, an experienced grown-up said in the lost thing “physical manifestation could be identified empercally through careful observation, calibrated measurement, and controlled experimentation.” When the boy brought the lost thing to Pete’s house, Pete just shrugged his shoulder since he had no idea about the lost thing after his scientific measurement and perfect experiences. He gave up easily. However, with a warm heart, the boy didn’t limit his view into a fixed “cold logic”. He still wanted to help the lost thing to find his home with his curiosity.
Without hesitation, the boy took the lost thing to his home. He gradually fell into a new dilemma. His father worried about all sorts of strange diseases from the lost thing while his mother concern about how filthy it feet were. However, the boy concern about the lost thing itself. He would like to company with it and didn’t want to leave it wandering the street. However, the grown-up government published news to suggest people to lock strange things into pigeon hole, a place to kill the innocence and curiosity.
When all people were doing a same thing, you may go with the stream. The boy finally found a solution to deal with his dilemma When he walked inside the lobby of the building, the light on the ground went off one after another. —bringing the lost thing to that tall and grey building.
The light of innocence and curiosity went off, which in turns, he gradually grew up and became an adult. The lost thing is a reflect of innocence and curiosity. When the lost thing was left the boy, and was locked into another world, the boy became a tedious grown-up with a cold heart and busy life eventually.
Nobody can escape to be an adult. Children often experience many dilemmas and don’t understand the grown-up. However, most of us, eventually, will solve problems and lost in the dilemma because we become a new grown-up.