The Door in the Wall 🚪 (Learn English with a Short Story) [962]

"THE WOLF WILL LIVE WITH THE LAMB,AND THE LEPPARD WILLBE WITHTHE YOUNG...." JSAIAH 11:6
The story reminds me of the verses the book Jsaiah. In my opinion, the story concerns the expulsion of man from the garden of Eden ...and the desire to return there . The story remains relevant because it also concerns the problems we have : relationship with our parents or our kids, death,, friendship, school, happiness versus wealth. Thanks

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This was exactly what I needed, thanks!

Really appreciate the insights in this video.

Thank you for the great content!

Awesome video, looking forward to the next one!

I believe this novel is also about long-term depression, as a consequence of growing in the absence of loving and nurturing caretakers. When we are children our imagination is the only tool we have to survive when everything else fails. And some experiences hurt us forever. I experienced depression as a teenager and I can tell I only wanted to sleep to be able to dream and escape from reality. Healing and maturing are not straight-forward processes and life is sometimes too hard or too difficult to understand.
Thank you for your podcast and videos. I've always been attracted to English despite of being proud of my language and culture. I have just found you, loved your approach and enjoyed this video very much. Thanks for sharing and helping others to get where they want to get in their journey. Because learning a second language, is a journey. Let's embrace it, as life as well! Love and peace, everyone!

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The story Is about the Lost of childhood

This is definitely a wonderful story, I bet it can be a fantastic novel. I had a relationship with the best person I have ever known. But I chose the work and my future over losing her. This love is like the green door I desperately want to return to in my entire life.

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The story is beautiful. The secret door leading to the other world, may be paradise, a wish that's deep inside us ... but we can never reach there.

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We all might wish to escape or run away from the reality of life. He who was very intelligent and smart could have create a world of his own after reading a lot of books and the world would develope as real. The door is a key of this story because we always see a door as a ideal one for entering a new world. He finally must have entered his door and succeeded to escape from his gloomy life to a brightening life with all he had believed to be his real one. Oh, what a dream we have when very young and we have to give it away.

The immediate thought is It's scary because I'm lying on my bed and trying to sleep. I worry I might dream this door.😢

Time does not exist; those who are trapped by time will not have their brains evolve; you are finished. >> India, Kundalini Yoga.....so far so good

Great tips, thanks for sharing!

Awesome video, looking forward to the next one!

The door is the entrance of next life

Thank you for sharing this story. I enjoyed listen to it very much. My view is the wonderful garden represent his inner heart, where a peaceful and happy land he really want to be. The outside world always distort his truly minds and force him to put on a mask. The disguise grow deeply alongside time and eventually he give up the inner garden.

I’m still halfway through your video (which is excellent btw, thank you so much for this type of video!), but I’ve heard some of your ideas on the short story, and I’d like to share my own interpretation of it.

Please bear in mind that I dropped an English course midway through the B2 level a few years ago and haven’t practiced much since then, so my thoughts might be a bit scattered and lack vocabulary. I’d very much like to hear y’all’s thoughts and criticism on those things and, of course, regarding the ideas I’m about to share!

So, it might be because my aunt, who has always been like a mother to me, has been sick for the past month, but the matters of life & death have been vividly present in my mind. Those big questions, e.g., “how should we live?”, “when are we ready to say goodbye to life?” or “what should we, the people who get left behind, do when those we love die?”, have been bothering me for a while, and that’s one of the reasons why this short story touched me so deeply. I kept thinking about how that green door was first found by him when he was a kid: aren’t all of us more connected, even if unconsciously and instinctively, to life when we can barely reason about what life actually is? Well, I do feel as if I were more connected to these, idk, maybe we should call them primal instincts (?), when we were children. There wasn’t much to do or to complain about (except, you know, the need to eat whenever we wanted to, to get cleaned, and those kinds of stuff), we could just focus on keeping on living and doing whatever floated our boat. That was our green door: we could use our imagination, go different places mentally, enjoy life without overthinking, and, like that, suck the marrow out of life deeper than an overworked adult could ever dream of doing. Maybe that could be said to be the similarity between children and artists (which could give us another way to interpret this story, but I won’t get into it here).

So, we found the door and could get through it easily and, even though we had to go back to our daily routine (because it’s the parents’ duty to impose some level of order and organization to their kids, ofc) and that made us sad, there would come a day when it wouldn’t be so easy to do that, with all of our “to-do lists”, never ending duties and so forth. And if we got through various different places in our imaginations and there was this one specific place we couldn’t go back to, even while being a child? Well, we all have moments when we do something that amazes us, and we can’t really go back and see what exactly we did that gave us that much happiness, so we just go on living. We are reminded of that pleasure some times and try to replicate it, but it doesn’t quite hit the same, perhaps because, as the time goes, our minds supplement our memory with some flavor of imagination that makes that specific moment way more special than it actually was, but we can’t even tell that, because we feel that wonderful feeling either way.

We grow up a bit and have our first “official” obligation with the world, our parents, and ourselves: school. Then comes university, work, and even if you can forget that amazing experience you had, that connection with those profound matters that make us who we are as human beings, because of all the novelties of daily work life, isn’t there a bottomless pit of boredom waiting for you at the end of the day? And then the overworking begins, and even if you, through all of that overworking, are able to see the green door again, when will all of your thoughts and routine be interrupted for long enough for you to be able to get through the door? I’m a philosophy student, but hey, maybe even that’s a hitch along the way, because sometimes we might get too lost discussing those elevated metaphysical ideas and ideals and forget about what actually matters: how we live our lives, how we die. Maybe that’s something only children can truly comprehend (and I use that word to avoid saying something that implies reasoning, because it seems to me like it might be more like a feeling, an intuition). When we desperately try to regain that feeling through our intellect, we end up deluded by our own reason, tripping over our own two feet and, ultimately, falling off into a hole right in front of a painted green door.

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For me I think the door represents escape and entrance to the garden (peaceful, full of joy and so on) Especially to a kid who lost his mother at a young age and a strict father. Like what we most do in our house or any indoor areas. If the tension gets heavy you will find yourself leaving that room (through the door) in the author of the story where he had the courage to go inside the door when he was a kid but soon after, he realized that he is back in the real world where he experience humiliation and grief. Basically the story tells about a young kid who grew up wanting or longing the temporary yet full of happiness he once experienced, the door representing that everytime it appears near him he would either choose to be free or live what people was expecting.

I listen to this story just today- anyway- I believe the story was very similar to stories i heard from a book - Life after life- about people who were in coma or passed out for a few minutes and survived after an emergency incident experienced “A near-death experience (NDE). So the story could be true though- who knows

Short stories really change the way you learn English… I started making my own and it’s actually fun 👀

hi，teacher Luke，I’m amazed about your story and your accurate accent.Suddenly,I feel I can understand English 😂.But It’s still confused that I can’t understand English movies,maybe I need more practices.

Very well done, appreciate this video!

Awesome video, looking forward to the next one!

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Simply wonderful. Thank you 👍

❤we need the follow our dreams or we can live our boring life’s as it is

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Nice story

I love this kind of story, which make me think deeply about our existence on this world.

Thank you very much Luke for this wonderful story and specially for the explanations and interpretations.

such a great story, I assume he felt great when he opened the door for the last time and that makes me happy

I love it ❤

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Nice story😮

Thank you for the great content!