Watching the movie "Fanny's Journey" in 1943, a group of Jewish children embarked on a self-help escape journey in France in 1943. At the end of the film, the moment When The prototype of Fanny and the rescued child on the screen left the country, I suddenly burst into tears and countless complicated feelings surged in my heart. The pain of World War II seems to be deeply rooted in our genetic blood, and once mentioned, there are always countless emotions that come up with us. Therefore, as soon as I opened "Nightingale", I couldn't stop, and finally spent a day reading the novel.
Hannah is undoubtedly a master storyteller, the story in the war theme, the bloody picture on the brutal battlefield is certainly unforgettable, but the small details of life are not easy to put down. "Nightingale" does not tell the frontal battlefield, but through the life trajectory of ordinary people, silently tells the impact of war on the fate of a generation of life.
Vivian and Isabel are destined to be sisters who love and kill each other. If there had been no war, Vian would have spent a peaceful and happy life as a primary school teacher and housewife, raising children with Antoine, after all, her garden was enough for her to expend more than half of her energy and immerse herself in the pastoral life of sowing and harvesting. And Isabelle, likely to be a wandering girl in every era, dares to try all kinds of new lives, and adventure is one of the themes of life. Without the war, their cracked kinship could make it difficult for their fate trajectories to intersect again. However, it is precisely the war, and they are involved in the war, and they embark on a life path of free choice or forced choice.
Isabelle's life was a bold and heroic life, like the steel knife cutting radish, crisp and loud, without dragging mud and water. She took LinkedIn pilots over the Pyrenees, and the nineteen-year-old girl said how touching it was that "the nightingale is singing"; later, under the difficult conditions of survival in the concentration camps, she also relied on tenacious will to create the miracle of life.
Vian's life is a gentle and deep life. In the years when she endured the humiliation and burden, the moment she was misunderstood by her daughter, she only said: "Because of her mother, she wants to protect her daughter." She risked her life to protect nineteen Jewish children, a natural act of human nature, and indeed the greatest glorious moment of human nature.
If Isabel and Vivian were to be awarded medals, I think they would both receive the highest honors. In the war, it is not "let the woman go away", but every ordinary citizen, have been involved in the war to participate in the battle, reading "Nightingale", you can't help but think of our grandparents and fathers, in the eastern battlefield of World War II, the same flesh and blood in the struggle against evil, the book of hunger and cold, wife and ion dispersion, shortage of materials, we have also experienced. And in war, women also play an extremely important and indelible role!
When I read Nightingale, I didn't want to think of it as a normal novel about family affection or love or war. It is a novel about love. In a short and long life, whether it is a change in the external environment or a desire in our hearts, we will always experience a variety of choices, each choice, there will be different value orientations, and even right and wrong, but if there is love, this choice will not make people regret. Just like the boy in "Nightingale" interspersed with the opening part of each chapter, "My Son", read the whole story, everyone will know the origin of this son, about the feelings of love, will be endlessly charming.