Prompt: Reflecting on maternal love from Within Mother's Heart by the author Nguyên Hồng.
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1. Sample Essay 1
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Reflecting on maternal love from Within Mother's Heart
1. Reflecting on maternal love from Within Mother's Heart, Sample 1:
Family is the cornerstone, the cradle that nurtures humanity. Family bonds are sacred and warm. However, not everyone in this world is fortunate enough to have complete family happiness. There are unfortunate babies who just cried out their first breath into this world when their mothers were deprived of life, leaving behind their helpless little babies and their last breath. There are also babies abandoned by their parents since infancy, forced to wander the streets, struggling in the cold misty winds. There are also children living in deprived love, constantly tormented by cruel words as if stabbed in the heart. And that is the story of the unfortunate, painful life of the boy Hong. The work 'Within Mother's Heart' by Nguyên Hồng tells the story of the author's childhood unhappiness, the pain surrounding life. It contains deep maternal love, resentment against customs, and the pain that trampled the mother's life.
Mentioning Nguyên Hồng is mentioning a writer specializing in writing about children and women, he has a deep sympathy for the unfortunate little souls, buried in injustice. Through his works, we see the noble beauty of women and the innocence of children, but they are still subjected to injustice, and life's hardships.
The character Hong in the work is a boy with an unfortunate life, a result of a loveless marriage between mother and father. Hong's mother is a modest, gentle woman who always yearns for true love but cannot decide her own life and is forced to marry an addict. Not long after, her husband, due to addiction, gradually withers away and dies. Hong's mother, due to poverty and debt, has to leave to seek a living, leaving Hong and his siblings behind. When his mother leaves, Hong and his siblings only have their aunt to rely on in the household. However, instead of love and care, Hong and his siblings are always met with coldness and contempt. The old aunt constantly sows seeds of negativity about their mother, wanting Hong and his siblings to hate their mother, to resent the woman who gave birth to them. However, instead of hating his mother, Hong feels a thousand times more love for her. He wants to crush the rotten customs that have trampled his mother's pitiful life full of unhappiness.
The Best Reflections on Maternal Love from Within Mother's Heart
Hong still lives in the midst of contempt, enduring pain to such an extent. Because of his mother's story, the pitiful boy inadvertently becomes a target of ridicule and scorn from people. Every day, he is tortured mentally by his fake aunt. She ridicules, injects into his mind cruel words about his mother, and doesn't stop until he cries. The tears streaming down his face are not because of hatred for his mother, but because he loves his mother, he pities her pitiful life lost to those customs, lost to the loss of freedom, lost to the happiness she once had in her life.
Physical pain can be healed but the wounds caused by words can never heal. They are like arrows stuck in a small heart, poking into it and leaving holes that cannot be healed. Those wounds grow larger, swollen and painful, the pain not coming in spurts but continuous, a lingering ache because there's no medicine to heal them. Despite the injury, he still bravely protects his love for his mother, thinking nobly like that, is it not characteristic of a child?
Day by day, Hong continues to live in coldness, enduring pain, but never once forgetting the face of his mother. He remembers the weary face of his mother, the more he thinks, the more he loves her. His mother, since leaving, has never returned to find her two sons, but he doesn't blame her and always yearns to meet her once to satisfy his longing, to express the thoughts and feelings he has had for her for so long.
And then that little wish of his finally became a reality. The boy sees the figure of his mother but doesn't dare to call out loud because if he mistakes someone else for his mother, it will be miserable, and all the hope he has nurtured will turn into smoke. So he only dares to call out with the hesitant, trembling voice of a child longing to meet his mother so much. And finally, in that afternoon, he is fortunate enough to meet his mother again. Hong quickly rushes into his mother's arms, in her small embrace, he no longer feels lonely, the humiliation, the daily torment suddenly disappears, in his head at this moment is filled with his mother's figure. Just a comforting hug from his mother is enough, he doesn't ask for anything more and just that is sufficient.
Family is a support, a solid rear base for everyone in times of difficulty. Therefore, everyone needs to cherish their small family because nothing is forever. Don't hesitate and postpone your feelings for others, as soon as possible, do everything you can because time is cruel and doesn't come back a second time, and human life cannot predict anything. Cherish, sympathize, and love, trust your parents, those who gave birth to us because no matter what choices we make, it's still good for us. Don't be indifferent and then regret later.
Through the story of the unfortunate life of the child Hong, we have realized something extremely precious, that is, family love. Maternal love to be revered transcends time, while also seeing the rotten face of society, degrading to an unimaginable level when it tortures an innocent child into the hell of suffering. We also feel the love overflowing in the bleeding heart of the child is boundless maternal affection, protecting his mother by standing alone against society. A small body but with thoughts as vast as the universe, that is the beauty of the soul of these little ones who always revere those who gave birth to them. And that is also the legend of maternal love full of sacredness and nobility woven through the work 'Within Mother's Heart.'
