Everything I Never Told You无声告白,詹慧敏 03,录,目,Author,She is a Chinese-American, the second generation from Hongkong. She was born in America, graduated from Harvard University, and her parents are both scientists. This is her debut, a New York Times bestseller, Amazons Best Book of 2014.,Characters,James Lee,Marilyn,Nathan,Lydia,Hannah,Jack,James Lee,ProfessorinMiddlewoodUniversity. HeisaChineseAmerican,whoseparentswerethefirstgenerationimmigratedtoAmerica. Growingupina“racialdiscrimination”environmentandalwaysbeingtotallydifferentwitheveryone,healwaystriestoblendin themandbethesamewiththem. MaybethatswhyhechosetomarryMarilyn. Thismakeshimcowardandself-abased. Heneverfacesthereality,oncontrary,healwaysescapesfromit.,Marilyn,Ahousewife. Sheisawhitewoman,growingupinasingleparentfamily. UnlikeJames,shewantstobedifferentallthetime.AndthatispartlywhyshefightsagainstgenderinequalityandfellinlovewithJames. Because shecould not realizeherowndream,shepushesherwishesonherlittledaughter,Lydia,andgiveshermuchpressure. Sheisverycontrollingand.,Nath,NathisthefirstchildofMarilynandJames. Heholdsontohisdreamandfinallymakesitcometrue to enterHarvardtostudyastronautics. HeisaquitesensitiveboyandheisdissatisfiedwithhisparentspreferenceforLydia.Butatthesametime,helikeshersisterverymuch.,Hannah,Hannahistheyoungestchildbutsheisthemostwatchfulone. Sheisalwaysignoredbythewholefamily,soshelongsforloveandsheissensitivetolove. Sheknowseverythingbutshejustkeepssecretsforeveryone.,Jack,JackistheLeesneighbor. Hepretendstobe dandiacal吊儿郎当butthatsonlyhiswaytohidehimselfandhisfeelingstowardsNath. Heisactuallyakindandsensitiveboy.,Plot,Lydia is dead. But they dont know this yet. On May 3, 1977, Lydia Lee, the middle child of the Lee family goes missing.After several days her body is dredged out of the town lake. Lydias parents, James and Marilyn are horrified with their daughters death.,Memory,James met Marilyn in university. James is a teacher and marilyn is his student. Marilyn fell in love with James in her first glance at him. He is so different from other guys. When she recognized the racist treatment he had been receiving, Marilyn immediately felt a kinship with him and the two began an affair. Discovering she was pregnant, she arranged for a quick marriage to James and was disgusted when her mother tried to stop the wedding after seeing that James was of Asian descent.,Memory,Marilyn intended to go back and continue her studies to become a doctor after her children, Nath and Lydia, was born. Though she remained a home-maker for eight years, the dream to be a docter still existed in her mind. deatth of Marilyns mother After briefly returning home, she abandons the family in order to pursue her academic studies without leaving a note.,went home,dealt with her mothers things,She achieved the housewife life that her mother always desired for her.,（转折),Memory,Marilyns absence lasts nine weeks, during which she realizes she is pregnant with a third child, Hannah. She returns home and realizes she will never have the will to abandon her children and pursue a career again.,James believes that she has left because he and the children are Asian and she no longer wants to deal with the societal pressure of being outsiders.,Lydia became extremely sensitive and she eagerly wanted her mother back. That was when she decided that she would do anything Marilyn wanted her to do. Every time her mother asked, she said yes, yes, yes.,Marilyin begins to encourage Lydia to become a doctor, aggressively training her in math and other sciences.,James also began favouring Lydia and bullying Nath, whom James perceives is as friendless as James himself was in childhood.,Memory,Nath becomes jealous of Lydia and one day pushes her into the lake even though she cannot swim. However, the ease with which she falls causes Nath to realize that Lydia is drowning under the weight of her parents expectations. He rescues her and the two become close.,Lydia,James,Marilyn,Nath,Hannnah,Memory,Lydia begins buckling under the weight of her mothers expectations and cannot keep up with the advanced courses her mother encourages her to take. She also is sick of faking she has friends for her father. She begins to hang out with Jack, her next door neighbor whom Nath hates, who has a reputation for deflowering town girls.,Lydia,Memory,At that time, Nath, who has spent the past few years being ignored by his parents, is accepted into Harvard.,Lydia scared.,Nath eagered to escape from the family.,rift,Memory,Lydia goes to Jack, hoping to sleep with him; however, Jack tells her he is in love with her brother and his reputation as a Lothario 色狼 is a lie. Returning home, Lydia is determined to reveal her shortcomings to her father and mother. Tracing back her unhappiness to the time her brother pushed her into the lake, Lydia goes there late at night intending to jump into the water and swim back to shore, but failed to do it, she got drowned and died.,The end,In the search of the reason o