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1、The PianistThe book “The Pianist” is an autobiographical book written by Wladyslaw Szpilman, who was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, even in Europe in the 1930s. Szpilman died in 2000 at the age of 88, and he wrote down the amazing story immediately after the liberation
2、 of Poland, which tells his struggle to survive Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II.Szpilman became subject to anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman had seen his world would go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and the
3、n must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman went into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he was a witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in 1944.In 1999, this book was rewarded as one of the best books. “ The
4、Pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilmans remarkable memoir of his survival in Warsaw between the years 1939 and 1945, is a significant contribution to the literature of remembrance, a document of lasting historical and human value. It has all the rawness and specificity of horrors painfully and uncomprehendingl
5、y withstood and afterward just as uncomprehendingly -but necessarily- recorded. Writing this book would seem to have been a further act of survival by a man who performed more of them in six years than most human beings do in a lifetime. There are many ways to read a book about the Holocaust, and on
6、e of them, surely, inevitably, is to try to answer the unanswerable: What makes one man endure when so many others succumb? From Szpilmans testimony we learn this: It is an ineffable and wholly unpredictable mixture of fate, determination, accident, instinct. To know Wladyslaw Szpilman is, in the mo
7、st hopeless of contexts, to know a modicum of hope” Sunday Book Review, December 5, 1999). It has been reprinted for many times and was translated to at least 30 kinds of languages. And it was also been made into a movie, which won three Oscars: best director, best actor, and best adapted screenplay
8、.After finishing appreciating the book as well as the movie, I was deeply shocked and moved. In the ghetto, people lived in fear from minute to minute, starving, ill, tired and witnessing scenes of unspeakable horror. People were shot at random by bored German soldiers; others were registered and se
9、nt to concentration camps. By contrast, we are so happy to live in the peaceful world, with enough food, sound body and freedom. Theres no excuse to complain, the only thing we should do is to cherish our beautiful life.On the process of Szpilmans escape, a number of people help him to survive, incl
10、uding his friends and boss and even a Germany caption. That remains me the humanity, which exists among people in every corner of the world. We all have families, we all have friends, and we all have the right to live. But do the Germans really cant understand this point? It seems that they take kil
11、ling others as game, but after burning the dead bodies of the Jews, they become talk about their own mothers War, its all because the war. How many innocent people die? How much unnecessary loss is caused?In the end, I would say that everyone has the responsibility to object to and avoid violence and wars, and we must build a harmonious world through our own efforts. Then we can really live a happy life.