Humanistic spirit, disaster, life, humanity
There is no news about Auschwitz, which was written by Rosenthal after visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp museum in Poland for many years after the smoke of World War II. It won the Pulitzer Prize, the highest prize in American news, and the awarding words wrote: "It evokes people's memory of disasters, their thinking about life and their reflection on human nature. Its publication fully shows a reporter's sense of mission, and even shocks the hearts of the living with the power of forcing people. " This is a very concise summary of the humanistic spirit contained in this article. Now I want to talk about my humble opinion from these three points.
First of all, arouse people's memory of the disaster.
The black smoke from the crematorium has been blown away by the forgotten wind in the memory sky, and Rosenthal brought us back to those disastrous years.
The article calls Auschwitz a "hell on earth" and a "killing factory". The words are concise and concise, which makes people think bitter and creepy. Next, Rosenthal took the readers to visit the concentration camp with the crowd, and the location of the visit was constantly changing: "gas chamber-cremator-death row-gray brick house-promenade-basement". Recording evil remains, relics, "piles of hair and baby shoes" makes people feel that the war disaster is terrible. In Auschwitz, "* * * 4 million people died there", and the executioner even spared the baby. "A three-story box, 6 feet wide and 3 feet high", "Five to ten people sleep in the fortress every night", no matter how small the box is, female prisoners have to be "stuffed" into it, like a tiny matchbox stuffed with tiny matchsticks, which is inhuman, and butchers are inhuman to prisoners to be slaughtered. Rosenthal reproduces some movements of visitors, and his expressions: "terror", "pause and tremble", "fright", "joy", "suffocation" and "pleading eyes" make readers feel the same way and take them back to that disastrous era.
In the pursuit of material things, mankind lost the Garden of Eden. Zygmont？ Bowman said: "Whether in fact or intuitively, all people may be vagrants, with nothing to stay and nothing to rely on. We are moving forward in division. " Culture is the spiritual home of a nation. As the carrier of culture, history is the most profound and vivid part of spiritual home.
1959, Rosenthal came to Brejinka and saw "the sun is warm, rows of poplars are dancing, and children are chasing games on the grass near the gate." He used "terrible" and "unbelievable" to express his feelings. Why? Because the destruction of disaster is irreversible, and the destruction of life is irreversible. In Brzezinka, darkness, death and cold should always stand there quietly, which makes people shudder at first sight. But now it's amazing to see the beautiful scenery here. You know, it is shameful to grow up in a home in hell, and tranquility will dilute the memory of hell. In Brzezinka, two diametrically opposite things are superimposed. The destruction of the past and the vitality of today make people feel the cruelty of the war and the horror of fascist atrocities. We can't let war break out again! We should return to the spiritual home in historical memory!
Second, think about life.
When we followed Rosenthal's footsteps and stopped in the long corridor, on the wall, "rows of people were looking at the visitors" and "their expressions were blank". Here, the author downplays her appearance, but gives a detailed description of one of them, "a girl in her twenties, plump and lovely, with fine white skin and golden eyes." Why does the author have a soft spot for her, and her beauty attracts him? No, it's her gentle smile, the sharp contrast between smile and tenderness and coldness, which makes me wonder why there are different expressions in the black robe of death.
Life is precious to everyone. Where is the value of such precious life? Certainly, it is not only because it is only once for everyone, but more importantly, the height that people can reach as much as possible in the course of life. Height can be divided into two types: one is the intuitive field, such as politics, economy, science and technology, literature and art, etc. Second, non-intuitive areas, such as mind, morality, conduct, cultivation and so on. The first one is obvious. Now, let me talk about the second one.
"Insensitive" shows the fragility of life. Under the oppression of atrocities, when listening to the footsteps of death approaching step by step, their spiritual strength gradually disappeared and they became insensitive to their peers and themselves; Smile is a delicate girl. Where is the source of her smile? It is not a helpless smile in the face of death, a sneer at the butcher, a flattering smile hoping to be forgiven, but a "gentle" smile. I think the source should be her heart. The girl knows that death is inevitable, and she doesn't want to spend the last moment of her life in fear and numbness. She recalled the good old days, those sweet days, her tenderness made me feel the generosity of her inner world, and her smile made me see the richness, beauty and tenacity of her inner world, from which I saw the height of her life value.
Third, reflection on human nature.
Bend your head to the ground-this is a poem by the Jewish community and a comment on the shocking and efficient killing machine. Absolute kindness and extreme rationality make the victims drag their own demise closer.
Large-scale slaughter cannot be completed by a limited number of butchers and butchers. Large-scale slaughter requires the obedience and cooperation of lambs. Silent witnesses, innocent bystanders, innocent negative people ... in the end, they can't escape the victims of the killing. Human nature is alienated into sheep nature, thus conniving at universal evil.
The eyes of history see trains full of lambs to be slaughtered, one after another heading for Auschwitz, but these eyes can't see that many bridges across the Kova River under the wheels were built by Jewish craftsmen. Their rationality did not lead them to help the perpetrators, but only led them to choose to survive at this moment. The hope of survival is the last glimmer of hope, which has become the highest goal, overwhelming all elements in human nature and becoming the only element. Everyone's imagination is opened in this last glimmer of hope, so there is a abnormal imagination mechanism to save it. They are willing to believe that the gas chamber is the bathroom of daily life, and the road to the death camp is orderly rearranged; They are willing to believe that the same kind of people who were executed last night have stains, which is reasonably different from their innocence; They are also willing to believe that the father and brother who were taken away this morning are old, weak and sick, which is still different from their own rationality of survival ... The hope of self-protection seems to still exist, and they would rather choose silence.
Compared with the wolf attack in the wild, the shepherd's slaughterhouse can be destroyed more thoroughly. In the face of the cruelty of wolves, what they lack is the ability to resist, and in human civilization, even the will to resist has disappeared. They don't want to be strangled, but they are more afraid of being separated from the terror of the group, and they can't bear the responsibility of individual resistance. Because of this, they believe in the unparalleled power of the state machine, inevitability and determinism, the impossibility of struggle and escape, and the futility of being killed. Victims under cruel rule may lose part of their humanity and become sheep on their way to death, thus speeding up the pace of death.
Literature is moral, human and life-oriented only if it keeps in touch with the memory of human suffering; Only in this way can it return to the human mind and gain warmth and strength that other spiritual creations do not have. "There is no news from Auschwitz" just confirms this sentence.
★ Author: No.2 Middle School, Honghu City, Hubei Province.