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The Swallow's Game is a paperback book by Zena Abi Ladd [Lebanese] and published by World Book Publishing Company. The book is priced at 68.00 yuan, with pages of 192. The article gives some readers' thoughts after reading, hoping to help everyone.

Reflection on Swallow Game (1): You have someone to accompany you from one place to another.

You have someone to walk around with.

Spring returns to Yang She Island, and mud weaves willows to cut the rain and fly. -It's a swallow's game.

In Lebanon in West Asia, Beirut, the capital where the author lived as a child, suffered from war. In peacetime, mentioning war may be nothing, but for those who have experienced war, peace will be more precious. Since ancient times, countries in Asia have been at war, and the recent air strikes were caused by the fermentation of chemical weapons, in Damascus, the capital of Syria, next to Lebanon.

This cartoon has only two colors, black and white, and the plane presentation makes the picture very specific, which can better show the content to be said. The author's painting style is not abstract. On the contrary, a small amount of embellishment can show different movements of characters, and there are also many appearance changes such as age changes of characters, which shows us the possibility that ordinary black and white painting can present.

In this cartoon, the author tells a simple story. In the war-torn city of Beirut, sniper bullets and occasional explosions filled every block. The apartment where the author lives is often affected, and the activities of the whole family gradually decrease to the lobby. Every night, the neighbors of the whole building will come to the safest lobby. They have different personalities and interests, and they still maintained their own style when materials were scarce during the war.

They huddled together to keep warm, showing family-like affection at this difficult time, including the author's parents crossing many containers to resist stray bullets, crossing many fences to come back from her grandmother's house and arriving safely for an hour. The tension and anxiety of the author and neighbors can be seen in the cartoon, and we see many details in the black and white picture.

There are many things that appear many times in comics, and the most crucial thing may be the ancestral ornaments hanging in the lobby. The pattern is that the king leads the people to line up, just like the dance of the neighbors later. I think the dragon in the pattern represents the totem of Lebanon, even though immigration is the best choice in the current situation.

I think this is the most amazing thing that the author shows in this book. The brutal war here is not so terrible because of its warmth. Even if the home is destroyed, the home is still there, and the place where relatives are is home. Home is a warm harbor. I think this is the real meaning of the swallow game.

Reflections on Swallow Games (II): Black and White Cha-cha in War

In 2007, an animated film named Persepolis swept the major film festivals and made a sensation all over the world. This nearly full-screen black-and-white animated film unveiled the mystery of the long-term war in the Middle East on the big screen with simple lines. What impressed me deeply was not the war and political pressure, but the background of abdication, which set off every warm and shining soul of the heroine wildebeest family. Every time I am moved, I am moved because they are just like us. Although the environment is hard, they are just like us. Children in the war experience youth rebellion and listen to heavy metal rock, while young people in the war yearn for a better life and secretly meet and dance. At the end of the film, Maggie's mother said to her, You are a free woman. This place is not suitable for you. Go and never come back. I think this can arouse the voice of every audience: that deep homesickness is mixed with the yearning for freedom.

In the same year, another female artist from the Middle East, Zena? Abby Ladd published a comic novel "The Swallow's Game" set in Lebanon's civil war. The same simple and flexible black and white lines, this rich exotic flavor seems to be the painting talent flowing in the blood of Middle Eastern artists. Different from the grandeur of Persepolis, Swallow's game intercepts fragments of war-torn life, which is more like a highly concentrated stage play. The story took place in East Beirut, Lebanon on 1984. Young Zena? Abby Rudd lives in a war-torn area with her parents and younger brother. She knows nothing about the outside world except war. In order to avoid the shelling, the other rooms in the apartment were sealed up, and the whole family lived in the safest hall. At the same time, this hall was also a refuge for the residents of the whole building when the bombing began.

Reflection on the Swallow Game (3): Swallows come back and wait for flowers to bloom.

Without too many spoilers, briefly talk about the advantages of this book:

0 1. Black and white+minimalist style, strong contrast, greatly shocked the readers' hearts. Exaggeration, superposition and contrast are widely used to make the picture look good. This book is full of strong Middle Eastern flavor.

The juxtaposition and superposition drawing skills come once every 4-5 articles. It is quite shocking to see such a minimalist picture with a decorative style similar to Tetris or snakes. In short, it makes me jump. 02. The storyline takes tapestries as the main line of the book, and these short stories (accidents) are connected in series, which makes people feel sad, excited and happy ... The short stories of civilians with war themes are all human, real and simple emotions without grand narrative preaching.

The brocade that runs through the whole paper is full of strong Middle Eastern customs. This picture is particularly sensational. . . The extreme use of exaggeration. Let's talk about the shortcomings first, so as to promote the progress of world map.

0 1. The inside pages of the book are very thick, and the front cover and back cover feel thinner than the inside pages. Somehow, they feel uncomfortable.

02. The black and white ink on the inside pages of the book is easy to leave fingerprints in black places after reading, which is unsightly.

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Reflection on Swallow Game (4): You have someone to accompany you from one place to another.

You have someone to walk around with.

Spring returns to Yang She Island, and mud weaves willows to cut the rain and fly. -It's a swallow's game.

In Lebanon in West Asia, Beirut, the capital where the author lived as a child, suffered from war. In peacetime, mentioning war may be nothing, but for those who have experienced war, peace will be more precious. Since ancient times, countries in Asia have been at war, and the recent air strikes were caused by the fermentation of chemical weapons, in Damascus, the capital of Syria, next to Lebanon.

This cartoon has only two colors, black and white, and the plane presentation makes the picture very specific, which can better show the content to be said. The author's painting style is not abstract. On the contrary, a small amount of embellishment can show different movements of characters, and there are also many appearance changes such as age changes of characters, which shows us the possibility that ordinary black and white painting can present.

In this cartoon, the author tells a simple story. In the war-torn city of Beirut, sniper bullets and occasional explosions filled every block. The apartment where the author lives is often affected, and the activities of the whole family gradually decrease to the lobby. Every night, the neighbors of the whole building will come to the safest lobby. They have different personalities and interests, and they still maintained their own style when materials were scarce during the war.

They huddled together to keep warm, showing family-like affection at this difficult time, including the author's parents crossing many containers to resist stray bullets, crossing many fences to come back from her grandmother's house and arriving safely for an hour. The tension and anxiety of the author and neighbors can be seen in the cartoon, and we see many details in the black and white picture.

There are many things that appear many times in comics, and the most crucial thing may be the ancestral ornaments hanging in the lobby. The pattern is that the king leads the people to line up, just like the dance of the neighbors later. I think the dragon in the pattern represents the totem of Lebanon, even though immigration is the best choice in the current situation.

I think this is the most amazing thing that the author shows in this book. The brutal war here is not so terrible because of its warmth. Even if the home is destroyed, the home is still there, and the place where relatives are is home. Home is a warm harbor. I think this is the real meaning of the swallow game.

Reflections on Swallow Games (V): Death, Departure and Return

Cartoons with war themes can always arouse people's strong voices and thoughts. Persepolis shows the political and cultural features of Iran in a comprehensive and detailed way, while the photographer highlights the brilliance of human nature in the harsh environment. Zhu Yu is at the forefront, and this book also shows the war in the Middle East, which is not inferior at all.

The war has greatly reduced people's activities. One of the characteristics of this book is that there are not many words and dialogues, and some scenes are silent. However, it is this silence that highlights the depression and tension brought about by war and death. For example, at the beginning of the story, empty streets, bricks with closed doors and windows, oil drums full of bullet holes and dilapidated street lamps, neat and meticulous brushes depict a depression in the war.

Suddenly silent. The two brothers and sisters stayed in the safe living room. Sudden silence, parents' worry, loneliness and insecurity suddenly broke out. For another example, after Chakri went out, everyone was not interested in talking, silently waiting for their safe return. The ticking of watches gradually accumulates, giving time substance and weight. More and more heavy pressure is on people's minds, and gradually deep depression and worry are about to stab the soul through paper.

Time has texture, and war brings chaos. The author compares it with the meticulous symmetry of murals, which not only relieves negative emotions, but also brings readers beautiful enjoyment. The characters are slightly exaggerated, but the facial expressions, especially the changes of eyes, are extremely changeable and lifelike. The information conveyed by several eye contact adds texture to silence, which is far better than a thousand words.

Wonderful description of psychological activities In my opinion, the main scene of this book is not so much a living room as an old tapestry. The theme of Exodus is redemption and hope. Tapestry is a solid building load-bearing wall, so it has become a symbol of security in everyone's heart. Meeting under the tapestry seems to be blessed by God, and I feel very safe in my heart. Unfortunately, the living room was finally destroyed by the bomb, and the people gathered together had to go their separate ways. In Exodus, everyone reached the promised land of safety under the leadership of Moses, but in the story, they parted ways and fled overseas, which made it difficult to integrate and the difference was lamentable.

The war of the missing twin brothers is cruel, the trauma caused to people is difficult to recover, and the shortage of materials has also brought various inconveniences to people's lives. Chakri's father was killed only because of his different beliefs. Ernest watered the flowers on the Wednesday of his brother's death and played chess alone to express his thoughts. The old life no longer exists, and those who have the conditions have fled. But in anxiety and despair, the author also placed strong hopes on this book. In the eyes of young "I", relatives, security and hope are tapestries. There is such a line on the wall of the broken house: death, departure, return, this is a swallow's game. Swallows, which are constantly migrating, will come back as soon as there is hope, no matter where they are. The suffering people also have the same hope for the country as Chakerui, as bright and warm as the light in the night.

It is better to say that with hope, the author's signature finally turned into a boat and continued to drift, but we have reason to believe that this river carrying boats is not only a river of suffering, but also a river of hope, and hope is also drifting.

Reflection on the Swallow Game (ⅵ): Swallows come back, and I wish them well.

Where is the swallow? Where is the way home?

Museum Road19751October. "Tell mom I'm going home." Chakery's taxi driver's father just got off the phone and was questioned at the checkpoint. He never saw his relatives again.

Beirut East 1984. "Noah, honey, don't worry ... the children won't be alone for long." Like a child, grandma comforted her mother who was worried about me.

On that day, my parents went to visit their grandparents who lived a few blocks away, and the heavy gunfire made them unable to go home for a while.

That day, crowded in the palm-sized hall, time seemed to freeze. "My brother" and the neighbors who came to avoid the gunfire experienced those seconds like years in the roar of bullets and shells.

Like solidification time, where is the swallow? Where is the child's name tomorrow? "I like the name Abdullah!"

"I like it too! But what if he grew up in Canada ... we must come up with another name. "

A week later, Farah and Ramz finally got their hard-won visas. Farah can go to Montreal to have a baby ... but they haven't decided what to name the baby.

At that time, people may be arrested, kidnapped or even shot just because of their names and religious beliefs on their ID cards.

Where is the swallow? Where is my brother?

Every night, ten seconds after the generator starts with a bang, Ernest will knock on my door with his key. He has a good upbringing, elegant manners and outstanding eloquence. In the evening, everyone changed into pajamas, and Ernest was still wearing a suit and tie.

At that time, everyone had a tight water quota, but every Wednesday, he insisted on watering his plants. Because on a Wednesday afternoon, his twin brother Victor was unfortunately hit by a sniper's bullet.

In the ruins of the war, Ernest always maintained his personal dignity and decency, but can Lebanon, a poor country, return to the past of the golden age?

Elegant and cultured Ernest, where are the swallows? Where is the sniper?

Just two days after Chakri brought back Ernest's brother's body, people put up containers and petrol cans in the street to protect passers-by. In all these scattered corners, the pace of life should be arranged according to the ceasefire time.

In order to avoid the sniper's bullets, people have created a clever way to walk between buildings-this is simply a dangerous dance with high difficulty.

No one has seen a sniper, let alone you and me. But every night when I listen attentively to the sound of "calling" and "calling", "I" know that it is a sniper singing the song of hell. Where is the swallow? Where is Beirut's past and future?

"Oh, Paris is so beautiful. You can't imagine. But ... I'd rather stay here, at least it makes me feel at home. "

My childhood "I" was like Beirut, but it was once the city where Angela safely raised three generations of women from the Grand Farah family. At that time, Lebanon was the most stable country in the Middle East, and its people's living standards were comparable to those of oil countries. Beirut, the pearl of the eastern Mediterranean, was once the transportation, education and cultural center of the Middle East and the Near East, and has the reputation of "Paris in the Near East".

With the coming of 1975 Lebanese civil war, all this went up in smoke. The once beautiful streets were full of roadblocks and roadblocks. 1982 I was born in war-torn Beirut. My grandparents have lived there all their lives, and this is also the place where my father was born, bearing the memory of my growth. That small hall, under a tapestry depicting the story of "going out of Egypt", used to be the shelter of the whole apartment. However, the shells fell mercilessly and we finally had to move out of there.

"Death, leave and come back. This is a swallow's game. " Outside the wall, there are no tears, and poetry and sadness flow slowly.

Swallows used to be here. The civil war lasted intermittently 15 years.

When the swallows come back, I hope they are all right.

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Two small mistakes were found in the book:

Page 1, page 43 "1When the war broke out in 975, he was 16 years old. A year later, his father Saeed, who was driving a taxi, disappeared. " According to page 77, Chakerui's father had an accident in the year of the war, that is, 1975, 10. The author should have made a mistake here.

The last paragraph of the back cover text: "The woman interviewed this time is my grandmother." This is an autobiographical cartoon, in which my grandmother once said a sentence similar to the above, 15 page. And the book clearly says "I" have never met my grandparents. This may be a small omission in translation or review. By the way, the translation of the whole book is very good

Defects don't hide Yu. The Swallow's Game tells the story of childhood in the war with a childlike and even elegant tone and dreamy black and white pictures. No guns, no snipers (Nolan filmed "Dunkirk" as well), no amputation, no blood donation, no tears and crying, but it was sad and moving. Recommended.

As an important metaphor symbol in the book, tapestry runs through it.