more complex than the language system

Lesley 2022-12-23 06:50:41

It's a work that I think is good.

Two of my favorite scenes are at the end:

One is that the officer found out that his Persian language was fake at the Persian customs. He said "I went to Tehran to find my brother" "I want to open a restaurant". Heartache, innocent, frustrated, with a cry, but still cruel, hateful, tyrannical, and bears human life. In two years, they have learned a language that only the two of them know in the world. They are full of joy and want to find their brothers, but when they arrive in Persia, they find that they have come to nothing. How much he valued his brother, but others have brothers, and the man who rescued Gilles lost his brother. how crazy the war made them

The second is when Gills names the Jews in the camps one by one for the last time. Tears poured out slowly, and everyone around stopped to look at him, and he continued to call out their names one by one. He had been with them, and they had saved him, his countrymen.

This is Gilles repeating the names of his compatriots one by one.

War makes everyone emaciated or obnoxious, and that's why I've always been against war. No proactive violence, in any form, can be rationalized. How small is the world, how huge is life and death, war is like an uninterrupted sparring of people's hearts, and the cruel calluses rubbed out wrap the softness and warmth inside. If someone comes to knock on it, this warmth will be warmed up again. But always, the war is too cruel, the calluses are too thick, the softness is too small.

Human nature is more complex than the language system created by Gills. If you want me to say, don't easily detect, don't easily attack and hurt.

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Persian Lessons quotes

  • Gilles: [about his daily fourty words in 'Farsi'] Inventing them is not a problem but to remember them all, it's impossible. And there will always be more. Many more.

  • Klaus Koch: [Koch took Gilles back after he was put to move to another camp] You would risk your life for those nameless people.

    Gilles: Those aren't nameless. Just because you don't know their names. At least they aren't murderers.

    Klaus Koch: I'm not a murderer.

    Gilles: No. You just make sure that the murderers eat well.