Summary “The Tree of Man”
This is a story about the life of two simple Australians – farmer Stan Parker and his wife Amy. Their life begins with the century, and in it the events of its history and the processes taking place in the Australian reality are reflected in its own way.
A story unfolds slowly about how the young Stan Parker cleanses his plot from the wild undergrowth and starts building a house. The picture is ordinary and at the same time symbolic – the beginning of the beginning: a long life, the development of a virgin land, in some ways even a human race. Stan achieves everything with his work, and work becomes for him and his wife a ritual that embodies the ultimate meaning of existence. Labor brings to the mysteries of existence, reveals the ineffable charm of the earth, which feeds the person, brings it closer to nature, with which the Australian farmer is closely connected, gives the opportunity to acquire a special language that is understandable to the person who lived a
Noctilucent forest fire, which swept through the village, the house of the Armstrongs burned, and the miraculously saved Madeline lost her fire in her hair. The obsession dissipated with time, and Amy again found peace of mind, giving herself up to the original occupation of the wife of a farmer, her mother.
The true life lies in the other – “… look at the sky, look for signs of weather in it, listen to the oats, pick up a wet calf just dropped from a cow’s womb and try to prove that he can stand on his feet.” Children Parkers on their feet could not resist, but the family did not die, and Ray’s son bears in him the ability to comprehend the secrets of life that his grandfather, who admired every leaf, every living being, had. However, what was not given to his grandfather, with a vengeance given to his grandson – the ability to
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