"The Wind Rises"

The wind is always free, it is always slipping away between your fingers, silently.

This book is thin and is the original novel of Miyazaki's anime of the same name. In order to better feel the book, I deliberately went to the movie to see, and found that the difference was still quite large.

The story is short, telling the story of the hero who accompanies his fiancée Setsuko, who is seriously ill, and spends the last time of her life in a nursing home in the mountains.

Seriously ill, a nursing home shrouded in the shadow of death, and the death of a lover, these sad elements have become very plain in the author's pen. The plot of the book develops methodically in the author's diary-like way. The large paragraphs of white depiction in the text can be seen in the hero's desire for a happy life. This passage from this passage of enjoying Mt. Yatsugatake with Setsuko goes even further: "We walk in a wood of fallen leaves. I stopped from time to time so that she could walk a little in front of me. I remembered two summers ago, when we were walking in the forest, I always deliberately let her walk two or three steps in front of me just to see her a few more times. Those small and trivial memories have long filled my heart and wrapped my heart tightly. ”

The story does not end in a hurry with the death of Setsuko, and the hero returns alone to the small village where he once lived, where he encounters the light of life. "But isn't the light and shadow of this light just like my life?" I thought that the light of my life could only shine a small distance around me. But in fact, it was like the light of this hut, much farther than I had imagined. The rays that shine out don't follow my consciousness, they shine everywhere, expanding my life..."

The wind will never stop, people can not live in memory forever, the dead will eventually leave you, and expectations will always bring surprises.