I'm sure we all remember the movie The Sound of Music - Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. It was the first movie I could remember the entire script for.
But then years later after this version of the story of the Trapp Family Singers got stuck in my mind, I was almost devastated when I read the Autobiography of Agathe Von Trapp a member of the original Trapp Family singers. Here was the person who's life had been cemented in the world's mind in the movie of The Sound of Music, but their actual story could not be more different.
I can't remember how I happened to come across the book, but when I saw it I thought, "This is wonderful! I get to read the story from the actual lips of one who lived the Trapp family singers experience"
As I turned the pages of the book - I saw a completely different family to what the big screen producers depicted.
You can almost say they got it all wrong! Then I remembered as Agathe herself stated in the book, that movies are movies. But I did feel her pain and sadness when to think that so many people would have tried to associated her with one of the seven children in the movie.
The book shows the real family of the Von Trapp's. It talks about a loving father, and a loving mother. It talks about the challenges of living with such a big family. They also talked about their faith. How their faith, their beliefs kept them together as a family.
Although large families are so scarce these days reading this book brings comfort to those who wish to have large families. We can't say that the Von Trapp's were "rich" but they were rich in spirit, talent, love of their family and most of all love for their faith. This is what kept them together for all those years and what allowed them to survive the various trials.
Agathe sets us straight making us realize for those of us like myself who were so naive to think the movie Sound of Music was their life.
A wonderful book about an old tale that we know so well.
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