[Reprint] The Invisible Golden Dream: Reading “Tico and the Golden Wings”

Thank you Doudou and Mom for such a pro­found read­ing! Your dis­cus­sion and shar­ing gave me a lot of inspi­ra­tion :)Orig­i­nal address:The Invis­i­ble Gold­en Dream——Reading Tico and the Gold­en Wingsauthor:I am Xiao DoudouI should say that Leo Lion­ni’s books nev­er dis­ap­point me.
Each of his new books brings me new joy.
“Tico and the Gold­en Wings” is a new book I received from the Love Tree Pic­ture Book Library the day before yes­ter­day.
I am also look­ing for­ward to this book very eager­ly.
When you open the book, the unique scent of ink of the new book comes to your nose.
What imme­di­ate­ly struck me was a paint­ing style that was com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent from the Leo Lion­ni pic­ture books I had seen before.
Typ­i­cal Indi­an dec­o­ra­tive style
Regard­ing the style of this book, if we have the oppor­tu­ni­ty in the future, let’s talk about it in detail.
From the over­all com­po­si­tion to the expres­sion method to the details, it is very worth recall­ing.
Lat­er, I learned from Mr. Aji­a’s “Chat­ting about Leonie’s Life” that
Lionel Messi­na once stud­ied a branch of Hin­duism.
This is one expla­na­tion for why Lionel Mes­si’s book is called “The Yoga Book”
Then, Tiko and the Gold­en Wings was per­haps cre­at­ed when he was most deeply engaged in the study of Hin­duism.
 

Leo Lion­ni is a great man, but not an unfath­omable one.
Although the pic­ture style will appear to be refresh­ing and refresh­ing,
But the ques­tion of “Who am I” runs through all his works
This book “Tico and the Gold­en Wings”
See­ing a book is still like see­ing a per­son, and the writ­ing is still like the per­son
Inher­it­ing the con­cise, rig­or­ous and easy-to-read style of Lion­ni’s writ­ing
Qui­et­ly nar­rate a sim­ple but lin­ger­ing sto­ry.
A lit­tle bird named Tico, with­out wings, can­not fly
But his friends loved him very much.
But his heart longed to fly, and he dreamed that he had a pair of strong gold­en wings.
 

Final­ly one day, with the help of the wish­ing bird, he real­ized his wish.
But while he was excit­ed about the joy of fly­ing in the sky, he encoun­tered alien­ation from his friends:
“With these gold­en wings, you think you are bet­ter than us, don’t you?
You just want to be dif­fer­ent from oth­ers.”
 

The nar­ra­tive tone of the whole sto­ry is always light.
But when Tico was aban­doned by his friends, the ques­tion in the arti­cle was sharp and straight­for­ward:
“Why are they leav­ing? Why are they angry?
Is it bad to be dif­fer­ent from oth­ers?
I can fly as high as an eagle.
I have the most beau­ti­ful wings in the world.
But my friends left me.
I was very lone­ly.”
Such ques­tions hit my heart, and I was asked tears when I was caught off guard.
After read­ing with Doudou, we talked about this top­ic while revis­it­ing the scene:
—Why did Tico’s friends leave?
Doudou replied: “Because they don’t like that he is dif­fer­ent from them and they don’t have gold­en wings.”
—Why was Tico sad after his friends left?
Doudou said, “It’s so lone­ly with­out any friends to play with.”
The last sen­tence was spo­ken by Doudou out of emo­tion. Life with­out kids to play with is very lone­ly :)
Leo Lion­ni’s books were nev­er writ­ten just for chil­dren.
Because his sto­ry is for every­one to hear.
Peo­ple of dif­fer­ent ages with dif­fer­ent life expe­ri­ences will read with dif­fer­ent insights
Why can chil­dren under­stand the sto­ries writ­ten by Lionel Mes­si?
Because he is very par­tic­u­lar about words
In the words of Mr. Ajia:

“Its strict gram­mar is exem­plary, but its choice of words is very per­son­al.

He does­n’t seem to auto­mat­i­cal­ly choose com­mon words, but rather prefers words that are more orig­i­nal, inter­est­ing, and sym­bol­ic.”

After his friends left, Tico began his lone­ly jour­ney.
He began to meet dif­fer­ent peo­ple, peo­ple whom he took the ini­tia­tive to help.

There is an inter­est­ing place here.All the peo­ple Tico helps are peo­ple, not ani­mals.
When Tico used the feath­ers on his gold­en wings to help oth­ers for the first time,
I was sur­prised to find that a real black feath­er, as soft as silk, had grown out from the place where the gold­en feath­er was plucked.
 

He began to give the gold­en feath­er to oth­ers lit­tle by lit­tle.
Tico gave the last few gold­en feath­ers to a beau­ti­ful bride.

This brings up a ques­tion for Doudou:Why did Tico give all the last few gold­en feath­ers to his bride?
Regard­ing this issue,
We dis­cussed it for a long time and came up with dif­fer­ent ver­sions of the answer:
1. Tico want­ed the bride to use gold­en feath­ers as the most beau­ti­ful dec­o­ra­tion for the wed­ding
2. Tico want­ed to give away the gold­en feath­ers as soon as pos­si­ble and return to his friends.
3. The bride doesn’t look very hap­py, and Tico wants to cheer her up.
4. The bride can make a feath­er pen out of the feath­er and use it to write a let­ter to the groom telling him to mar­ry her soon.
5. The bride’s fam­i­ly is very poor, and the gold­en feath­ers can be exchanged for mon­ey to make her wed­ding go smooth­ly.
6. Gold­en feath­ers rep­re­sent hap­pi­ness and joy
7. The bride’s head­scarf has many pea­cock feath­er pat­terns, which Tico likes very much.
8. …
 
Please for­give my bad mem­o­ry. Doudou gave ten rea­sons in total, and I turned around and lost a few of them.
The sec­ond rea­son made me pon­der for a long time after clos­ing the book.
Humans are social ani­mals. No mat­ter how proud you are or how pow­er­ful you are,
You all have a latent need, which is the need for social belong­ing.
Even if you know that there are many things in this social group that dis­ap­point you
But you still have to under­stand one thing:
Once a per­son is sep­a­rat­ed from the social group, all his val­ues will no longer be con­sid­ered as val­ues.
So, Doudou is right, Tico real­ly wants to be back with his friends.
 

 Thus ends Tico’s sto­ry.
When all his gold­en feath­ers were replaced with black feath­ers
His com­pan­ions hap­pi­ly accept­ed him: “Now you are the same as us.”
The arti­cle ends like this:
“We were all hud­dled togeth­er tight­ly.
But I was so hap­py and excit­ed that I could­n’t fall asleep.
I think of the crafts­man­’s son, the old woman, the pup­peteer,
There are oth­ers whom I have helped with the Gold­en Feath­er.
‘My wings are black now,’ I thought,
‘But I’m still dif­fer­ent from my friends.
We are all dif­fer­ent.
Each has his own mem­o­ries,
And invis­i­ble gold­en dreams.’”
I make no secret of my love for this end­ing, just as I admire Mr. Lion­ni.
Lov­ing oth­ers and lov­ing your­self is always the biggest issue in life.
The two abil­i­ties of doing good and being grate­ful are worth learn­ing for a life­time.
Like Tico, every­one has expe­ri­enced a lot in life: trau­ma, pain and fail­ure
But when you face it calm­ly and go through it, you will be pleas­ant­ly sur­prised to find:
These expe­ri­ences strength­en your spir­it in a way that allows you to tap into your inner worth.
If you are will­ing, you can also share the pos­i­tive pow­er brought by this val­ue with the peo­ple around you.
At the end of this book, I read about a pos­i­tive and uplift­ing force.
I think any­one who has an invis­i­ble gold­en dream like Tico will like this end­ing.
——————over——————
 attach:
【Leo Lion­ni Event】When we have gold­en wings

All lives are unique——“Tico and the Gold­en Wings”

 Enter­ing the World of Leo Lion­ni: Friends and Part­ners (Part 1)
 
I still feel unsat­is­fied, so I’d like to say a few more words.
   
Before read­ing a good book, it is best to be in a com­fort­able envi­ron­ment, find a com­fort­able pos­ture, make a cup of tea, turn off your phone, and read slow­ly. After read­ing it once, you can read it again. If you are still not sat­is­fied, then turn on the com­put­er, start writ­ing down what you see, get, feel and under­stand.
   
Sad­ly, moments like these are price­less. Last night, some­one assigned me anoth­er task: they want­ed me to take a moment out of my busy sched­ule to review their com­pa­ny’s brochure design, and ide­al­ly, to help them per­fect the design for their exhi­bi­tion in Bei­jing! I was so indig­nant at that moment… Why? I’m not your employ­ee. Besides—I’m real­ly busy!!! I have to work on my main job and my side hus­tle, and I still want to find time to read a book, and I want to chat in the group chat… But I can only keep these words to myself, not dar­ing to say a word out loud! Why? Because I deeply under­stand the main idea that Mr. Leoni con­veys in “Tico and the Gold­en Wings”: Although you may have your gold­en dreams in your heart, you must rec­og­nize your place in the group. This applies to soci­ety and to fam­i­ly. So, no mat­ter how reluc­tant you are, you have to put fam­i­ly har­mo­ny first, right?!
   
How­ev­er, Mr. Lion­ni also hint­ed that the gold­en dream still comes first! So, the USB dri­ve filled with some­one’s com­pa­ny infor­ma­tion is qui­et­ly placed on my desk. I won’t con­nect it to the com­put­er until I fin­ish what I dream of doing. Some­one is also very clear about this!