TheYellowRibbon——byPeteHamill最新分析和总结.pdf

The Yellow Ribbon ——by Pete Hamill Preview Do you know the popular song —“Tie a yellow ribbon ,round the old oak tree ”? Do you know this story became the inspiration of the song which is popular in China too? And do you know this article is the origin of using yellow ribbons as a symbol of American ?s wish to see her troops return home safely? Let?s read the moving story. They were going to Fort Lauderdale, the girl remembered later . There were six of them, three boys and three girls, and they picked th up the bus at the old terminal on 34 Street, carrying sandwiches and wine in paper bags, dreaming of golden beaches and the tides of the sea as the gray cold spring of New York vanished behind them. Vingo was on board from the beginning. As the bus passed through Jersey and into Philly, they began to notice that Vingo never moved. He sat in front of the young people, his dusty face masking his age, dressed in a plain brown ill-fitting suit. His fingers were stained from cigarettes and he chewed the inside of his lip a lot, frozen into some personal cocoon of silence. Somewhere outside of Washington, deep into a Howard Johnson ?s, and everybody got off except Vingo. He sat rooted in his seat, and the young people began to wonder about him, trying o imagine his life: Perhaps he was a sea captain, maybe he had run away from his wife, he could be an old soldier going home. When they went back to the bus, the girl sat beside him and introduced herself. “We?re going to Florida, ” the girl said brightly. ” You going that far? ” “I don ?t know. ” Vingo said. “I have never been there, ” she said. ” I hear it?s beautiful. ”