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0每天五分钟听经典英文故事，读绘本，磨耳朵。一个用快乐游戏照亮整个小镇的女孩，即使遭遇不幸，也从不放弃寻找值得高兴的理由。
Pollyanna came to her aunt's house for the first time, but her aunt did not come downstairs to greet her
She just sent the maid, Nancy, to take the girl to the attic, and handed her a sheet of paper full of rules
When to get up, when to eat, when to practice piano, when to read, not a single one could be missed
But when Nancy opened the attic door, she saw Pollyanna standing in the middle of the empty room, looking up at the small window
The room was hot, the furniture was sparse, and the wallpaper was old and dark
Pollyanna said it was wonderful, because she could finally see the treetops, and the distant sky through the window
She had no doll, no father, and an aunt she'd never really met, yet she still tried to make herself happy
She had certainly known sadness before
On the contrary, she had learned sadness very early
After her mother died, she lived with her father, a poor pastor who was often ill, and later he left her too
The glad game was what her father taught her in the hardest of times
Once, Pollyanna asked her father for a doll
There were no dolls in the missionary barrel, but there was a pair of children's crutches instead
She cried, but her father pointed at the crutches and said, you can be glad about them, because you don't need them
From then on, they played a game: no matter what happened, you had to find something to be glad about
The harder it was, the trickier it was to find, but once you did, the game became all the more fun
Pollyanna brought the game into her aunt's house, and into the whole town
Her aunt wouldn't let her talk about her father, wouldn't let her run around freely, and certainly wouldn't let her live without rules
But Pollyanna went out every day
She visited Mrs. Snow, who had been bedridden for years, a woman who kept her curtains drawn tight, and was never satisfied with anything
Pollyanna didn't rush to cheer her up, she brushed her hair first, and opened the curtains
Mrs. Snow was still complaining, but her eyes, for the first time, turned toward the light outside the window
She also met Mr. Pendleton in the woods
The man had injured his leg, lived in a gloomy big house, and had no one but a dog by his side
He didn't like visitors, and wouldn't admit he was lonely
But Pollyanna kept coming to talk to him, telling him the leg was just a fracture, and would heal in time
She also told him, at least he could be glad he hadn't broken both legs
One day, Pollyanna met Jimmy Bean by the roadside
The boy had run away from the orphanage, wanting nothing more than a normal home, with a mother who would truly care about him, not a matron in charge of many children
Pollyanna brought him home, but her aunt wouldn't take him in
So she went to the Ladies' Aid Society, hoping those women would give Jimmy a home, but in the end, they decided to send the money far away, so it wouldn't affect their year-end report
Pollyanna was disappointed, but she didn't give up
She remembered Mr. Pendleton once saying, the house was missing a child
She told him about Jimmy, at first he was angry, thinking it was just childish nonsense
But later, he let Jimmy come to see him
And later still, Mr. Pendleton told Aunt Polly himself: Jimmy would become his child
When Pollyanna heard this, she smiled at once
She was glad for Jimmy, and glad for Mr. Pendleton too, because this big house finally had a child's voice in it
She also, without meaning to, touched upon the old story between her aunt and Dr. Chilton
Aunt Polly had once loved Dr. Chilton, but pushed him away after a quarrel, and Mr. Pendleton, had loved Pollyanna's mother
Words the grown-ups had hidden for years, rose to the surface again, through Pollyanna's straightforward questions
She didn't understand what was proper, or why people who loved each other, would punish one another with silence
She just felt, if someone still missed another person, she should let them meet again
One day in late October, Pollyanna was walking home from school
As she crossed the street at the corner, a car suddenly came rushing toward her
No one could say exactly what happened in that moment, only that the child was brought home, unconscious
When she woke up, her head was bandaged, but her legs felt nothing at all
Aunt Polly told her, she was just injured, and would soon be better
Pollyanna tried hard to find something to be glad about: at least it wasn't contagious, at least she wouldn't be bedridden forever, at least Mr. Pendleton's leg had healed after his fracture
But as the days passed, she still couldn't get out of bed
She finally understood, her leg wasn't just a simple fracture, it was her spine that had been injured
In that moment, the glad game stopped right in front of her
For the first time, she admitted she couldn't find anything to be glad about
Those words made it impossible for Aunt Polly to hide behind the rules any longer
She remembered, when this child first arrived, she was only carrying out her sister's will
She remembered, Pollyanna had always called her aunt, but had never truly received a warm home
She also finally admitted, she had never forgotten Dr. Chilton
When Dr. Chilton arrived, Pollyanna lay in bed, watching the colored light from the prism by the window
The doctor told her, there might still be a way to treat her, she would need to go far away, to see a famous doctor in New York
Pollyanna still couldn't stand up, and didn't know if she would ever walk again, but she was about to leave this house, and set out on a new journey
Before she left, Aunt Polly came to her bedside, and for the first time, spoke without a cold, hard voice
She told Pollyanna, when the child got better, she would bring Dr. Chilton back, to be her uncle
When Pollyanna heard this, she clapped her hands with joy, then stopped
She lay in bed, still unable to move her legs, but at last she had found something to be glad about again
Aunt Polly was no longer just the person who took her in
