i finished Reading or infact relishing the book in such a short time that i kept on reading the book several times one thing is for sure any series are not picturised the way they are in books ......this is about how i enjoyed and met heidi ..now coming to describing Heidi :
Heidi is a small kid with a beautiful and innocent little heart which doesn't no the evil things in life called greed,riches,wickedness etc...( wish even i had such a beautiful heart )
Some kids usually donot share their things be it food or any thing but heidi is some one for whom all such things like tasty food ,expensive attires and toys hardly matter .. now dont consider her to be a saintly child coz she is just not like that ..
She is some one who wud get up early in the morning and takes a look outside her round shaped window in her bedroom on a cozy spacious attic ..(trust me u wud love her bed room ) just to catch a gulp of the fresh cool air on the Alps (she stays on the swiss Alps with her grandfather )people who reside in the city wud def feel "wish i cud smell that fresh mountain air " ..
Heidi can teach u a lot of lessons for life like caring for others like the way she takes care of her friend ..best friend peter and clara .... and her grand father who is actually kind of banished from the village ....(why is he banished is another story ) but the best part is she turns her stone hearted grand father(who turned as a stone hearted person because of the bitching behavior of the villagers for no fault of his .. sounds filmy?) in to a caring ,lovable and helpful person ....She has the charm of transforming any kind of a heart in to a caring and noble heart ....
The way heidi enjoys and relishes embraces each and every moment of her life close to nature on Alps the migthy Alps ..be it watching the Alps turn their colours during sun set ,or the beautiful feeling of running on the wet grass with naked feet till u actually tire urself out and things like shouting on top of your voice on the top of the cliff to hear yourself echo ..... hearing the rustling or sweeping of the wind through the huge fig and fir trees.. hearing the sound of the brooks which have formed all afresh from the freshly melting ice from the alps from the first rays of sunlight touching the Alps .....watching the sunset and sunrise on the Alps .... tasting the freshly baked baked and home made cheese with a dash of a huge jug of goat's milk milked by her own hands (thats what is her dialy food .. she never longs for all the goodies )...... just imagine all this beautiful things u wud def feel wish i was there... (atleast i felt tht way )...
This is just how heidi 's life is on Alps sounds too peaceful and merriful right well well well...... she is tricked by her aunt who for her monetary benifits takes her away to the city which heidi feels is nothing but a huge place with stone made buildings and she is innocent enuf to realize the way people of city are ....
She doesn't find any of the expensive toys or the expensive dresses to stop her from thinking about the Alps .. she misses the Alps so much that she develops sleep walking where everynight she imagines to be walking on the alps .. she is restricted from talking about the Alps with Clara too..oh i dint say who is clara well she is a young girl who leads her life on the wheel chair and it was for her sake that heidi is taken away from the Alps..
Heidi actually hides all her sorrow of missing the alps and her free life so much that she starts feeling a pain deep on her neck ...this happens when ever u try to suppress ur painful feelings deep inside u for longer and longer time without letting it out in the form of tears. It is at this point of time that the doctor forces heidi to be sent back to the Alps ..
Heidi never forgets her friend clara though and infact forces her to come to visit her at alps and encourages her all through so much that clara starts enjoying her life in true sense and the effect is she gets well adn in fact stands on her own legs .. heidi is hte one who teaches her how beautiful life is and how a determined mind even the greatest diseases can be fought ...
she teaches clara hope,faith,love ,relation ship,determination to fight against anything,how to enjoy the simple things in life ...
Ultimately its not the disease or sorrow or pain which ruins our life its the attitude which matters .. attitude to fight anything and everything till we win over the same sorrow or pain ... I know its always easier said than done and always easy to give out such statements but eventually everyone in his/her life at some point of time learns to fight or to say life teaches everyone of us to fight the battle of our life
And i strongly believe that everyone is a great warrior of thier own life just that u need to get prepared for the battle and have the enthusiasm to stay in the field for long ....
I keep searching for the Heidi within me ... do you ?
note:If you ever find time do read the book online :)
http://etext.virginia.edu
