In the cold light of the city's indifference, countless lonely souls are looking for a partner or friend who can accompany them through the long night.
In the movie "Kikujiro's Summer", Kikujiro, who was once abandoned by his mother, takes Zhengnan, who has a similar experience, to find his mother.
Along the way, he has experienced many ups and downs, and he has also met many warm and kind people, and for Zhengnan, who has no parents to take care of, Kikujiro accompanies him like a father to play.
It was like holding his hand in the darkness of darkness, slowly coming out of the darkness, warm and healing.
There will always be someone who will accompany you through the long darkest hours of your life.
No matter which role he plays in your life, their company will make you the brightest light in your life.
In "Through the Long Night with Anna," author Garrel Savi tells us a story of love, courage and companionship.
When the little girl Anna was deeply immersed in the dark night of life, a person accompanied her through the long night.
1. What do you say?
In 1939, Germany invaded Poland, the year Anna was seven years old.
Anna's father was a professor of linguistics at the University of Jagiellonian, and under the influence of her father, Anna was fluent in several different languages from an early age.
One morning in November, the Germans captured Anna's father, who was entrusted to the care of his father's good friend Dr. Fishman.
Anna waited in confusion for her father's return, but he never returned.
Anna's father would not return, Dr. Fishman refused to take Anna in, and the weak and helpless Anna sat down the street waiting for a father who would not come home.
Knowing that this is a fruitless wait, people in the darkness always have a glimmer of hope, hope that will bring light, bring infinite possibilities.
Sitting alone on the street in Krakow, Anna met a tall, thin man.
He asked Anna in different languages, but Anna didn't answer a word.
The tall man attracted a swallow to put in his hand to amuse Anna, and it was this swallow that changed Anna's future life.
Anna knew she couldn't wait for her father's return, and she answered all the questions of the tall thin man in different languages.
In Anna's mind, this man, who speaks as many languages as his father, is a man of his own world.
2. Follow the leader?
The tall thin man didn't take Anna with him, he just gave Anna a small sugar cake to comfort her, but Anna saw a father-like light in him.
The man told Anna "don't stand out".
Seven-year-old Anna, a little girl who speaks many languages, with bravery and thinking beyond her peers, decided to follow the tall thin man in front of her.
She followed in the footsteps of the tall thin man, across the street, away from the city, following the man's shadow in the darkness.
On the road in the dark of night, Anna stopped the tall thin man, whose concern for Anna warmed Anna.
They agreed that Anna would call him "Daddy" in front of others and call him Swallow Man in her heart.
In front of strangers, swallow man called Anna "baby".
In this way, Swallow Man and Anna marched together in the war, and in order not to attract attention, they walked as far away from the crowds as possible.
Swallow Man's first lesson to Anna: "To be found means to disappear forever"
Second lesson: "As long as you keep moving, others won't find you."
Seven-year-old Anna may not know what war means, but what Swallow Man taught her is to survive in war.
3. A zoological lesson
In 1939, Poland was torn apart from the west and east by Germany and the Soviet Union, while Anna and Swallow Man walked hard around, before and after, and between these two imperial beasts.
The swallow man did not carry much, in addition to the clothes and daily necessities he carried, as well as passports from various countries (these passports were used as a cover for his hidden identity).
Folding knives, pocket watches, glass bottles containing a large number of small white pills, etc., and a small handmade baby shoes full of beads.
Anna and the Swallow Man have been walking, and Anna carefully faces strange people and things according to the survival rules guided by the Swallow Man.
In Anna's mind, Swallow Man is a discreet and shrewd master of conversation, who can make up different stories in the face of different strangers.
In order not to be found, Anna and Swallow Man play various roles, developing strategies to cross the levels and walking on the war-torn land of Poland.
As they walked across the border, Anna realized that all the bears in the world came from Russia and all the wolves came from Germany.
Swallow Man told Anna that both the wolf and the bear were looking for an endangered bird, and that there was only one bird left, and that whoever the wolf or the bear found and ate it would become very strong.
The swallow man wants to make sure that the bird is safe and sound, which is why they keep walking.
4. The person who kisses the rifle
Anna and the Swallow Man never stopped walking, they never stopped in one place, only in the winter when they stayed far away from the village.
They walk in the wilderness, in the mountains, where they leave their footprints, are their hopes for survival.
Behind them, wolves and bears hunted, and they were cautious that if they took the wrong step, they might be eaten.
Anna was alone in the woods waiting for the return of the swallow man who had gone out, and saw a young man in the forest sticking the muzzle of the "rifle" into his mouth.
Among the rifles Anna had seen, the young man's rifle was strange.
Anna broke the previous silence and asked the young man, "What are you doing?" ”
The young man humorously explained to Anna that he was holding a clarinet, an instrument, not a rifle.
The laughter of the young man infected Anna, who had never seen a smile on the swallow man's face in two years, and for her, laughter was such a precious thing.
The young man told Anna that his name was Himser and that he was Jewish.
Mr. Heiselle plays music for Anna, who loves the man who kisses the rifle, and he brings her joys that she has not experienced for a long time.
But all this seems extremely dangerous to swallow man, who returns and takes Anna away, and he is wary of Himel.
Anna, who had left Himer, wanted to bring him something to eat, and she went to look for Himel with bread while the Swallow Man was asleep, but got lost and couldn't find her way back.
Anna is found by the Swallow Man, and for the first time they have a gap.
Late at night, Anna was placed under a bush by the Swallow Man, once again waiting for the Swallow Man to return.
5. The mode of migration
Swallow Man found Mr. Heisel and led him and Anna along.
Although many of Mr. Heiselle's actions are incompatible with the Swallow Man, they are all by Anna's side, accompanying her through the long nights, through the wilderness and the woods, and from wolves and bears.
Anna and The Swallow Man, Mr. Chisel ventured across the Polish border, crossing the german and Russian guarded crossings, swimming across the Bug River to the bear-occupied zone.
The three of them walked on the war-torn land, cautiously hiding to avoid being spotted by the German soldiers.
They searched for dry food to survive on the bodies of the dead.
In such a hiding, Anna saw the horrors of war, and how precious it was to survive in war.
But the smoke of war had left them with nowhere to hide, and they were back on Polish soil.
It's just that Poland at this time is completely different from the Poland they left, and it has become full of war and death.
6. What will you give me?
Anywhere, behind any pair of mundane, ordinary eyes, there may be Death himself lurking.
Anna and Mr. Swallow man and Mr. Heiselle meet a dealer in the woods, who recognizes Swallow Man, but he is not sure, and the dealer asks to take Anna away.
Being found meant death, and Swallow Man knew this well, and he killed him while the trafficker was asleep in the dark of night.
Hessel could not agree with the Swallow Man's killing, and Swallow Man insisted that his finding meant that more people in the world would die.
Mr. Heiselle left them with incomprehension and anger at The Swallow Man's behavior, and soon Anna and the Swallow Man found Mr. Hessel's body.
Don't live in the midst of death, that's what Mr. Heiselle said, but in the end, he didn't survive.
7, I will protect you
The swallow man had finished eating the small pill he was carrying, he became irrational, he was no longer the swallow man who was extremely cautious in Anna's eyes.
For safety, Anna continued walking with the swallow man.
They lingered in a large, dilapidated mansion, and Swallow Man could no longer control himself, he could not stay quietly in one place.
Anna was afraid that he would meet the German soldiers, and in order to save the Swallow Man, Anna went to the city alone and found medicine for the Swallow Man in her own way.
Once it was the swallow man who protected Anna, but now, the swallow man without small pills is very dangerous, and Anna has to protect the swallow man in her own way.
Swallow Man regained his senses, and he took Anna to where his friend lived.
There, Anna heard Swallow Man and the German friend talk about nuclear physics, and Anna felt even more lonely.
Swallow Boy is going to be separated from Anna, and he asks the fisherman he knows to send Anna away, and Anna doesn't know where to go.
The man who had accompanied him through the long night, Anna would never see again.
8. Conclusion
The swallow man accompanied Anna through the long night of the war, and accompanied Anna to grow up slowly, but the night continued.
No matter how unknown the road ahead is, everything that Swallow Man teaches Anna will be a treasure for Anna's life.
In the same way, everyone who accompanies you through difficult times will become a light that shines into your life, a light that is warm and dazzling.
May all those who are walking in the darkness of the night be able to carry forward with a light in their hearts.
Author: Zhou Yao, a member of the Intensive Reading Friends Association. Cultivate in the dust and survive in the world.