Hunter and Hussar

Chapter 32 Sartre at the Theater Festival

"Many years later, facing the firing squad, our Comrade Correavewe will recall that distant afternoon when his sister saw him perform brilliantly at the theater festival..."

When I went back to the dormitory for the evening self-study, I received this message from my sister.Confused.

"Can you speak human language?" I replied.

"Hahahahahaha, this is imitating the beginning of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Wei Wei didn't know it! Remember it now? If you don't recognize it in the future, I will double pinch your face!" She also put an emoji package, a A cat's head was held firmly with fingers, and the words "I press this button on top of your head and you will become a melon skin" were written. [1]
I don't have an expression in my hand that can turn her back, and I have never accepted this thing very much.

"So what do you want to say?"

"No, I just think you guys performed really well today! The first prize should go to your class."

The drama festival of No. 16 Middle School basically starts after the midterm exam, and every two classes arrange a play.This is probably because there are 7 classes in the whole school. If every class goes up, it is estimated that it will be able to perform for a day.Combining classes according to the teaching situation of the language teacher can save half of the time and energy, and it happens that each teacher leads two classes. On the [-]th, the Monday class reunion class was held by us and the second class. Teacher Huang introduced the script that we will rehearse in the next two weeks to the students of the two classes. The old class sat aside and crossed his legs with great interest Listen carefully and become the first audience.

The theater festival performance is on the afternoon of the 25th, which is today.The club class on Friday was crowded again.And the day after tomorrow we will go to the High School of Science and Technology for the fifth round of the group competition.In the last round, Lifu was tied 1:1 by the Experimental Middle School. With 4 points in 4 rounds, the qualifying situation is precarious.Having defeated Beichuan Middle School at the beginning of the month, we accumulated 10 points and ranked first in the group. As long as there is a draw, we can ensure that we will advance to the knockout round in the next semester.If we win the away game, it means that we will lock in the first place in the group, which will allow us to face No.2 in Group B in the quarter-finals and avoid the first place in other groups.

"Here it goes again. I know you and Class Ten are the first prizes, the first in the whole school. There is no dissatisfaction, there is no need to comfort me." I replied to her.

My sister and the others did perform well, so it's no surprise that they won first place.Their script is also adapted from the novel, "The Little Prince".The elder sister played the rose, and Yan Xi played the fox, each wearing a furry headgear.Yan Xi also has a small orange tail. There must be some mechanism on his body. When he presses down, the tail will tilt up and wag, which is refreshing.The one who played the role of the little prince was the classmate who stood next to Yan Xi last time, and he gained a lot of points for both appearance and acting skills.He is so cute, especially the eyes, which are very clean, and you can feel the flowing clarity in the audience.Putting on that golden scarf, every move he made seemed to tell me that the little prince had returned to our blue planet again.

Zhao Rui's pilot is also good, and the goggles are a bit like Snoopy's.He was still a little nervous, but fortunately, the acting skills of "The Little Prince" were enough to last a play.

"You guys are at a disadvantage. The audience and the judges are tired of seeing the last one, and it's relatively deep, so everyone's brains may not be able to move." My sister is still sending me a message, "I really like you two A class play. I am the judge and I will vote for you first."

"No.2 is okay too."

"No, Weiwei, you play a great performance! Although I want to laugh a little when I watch it, hahahahahahahaha, you are a expression of death. Especially the sneer and 'I am going to die a little bit', match Seeing your dumbfounded face, I wanted to laugh and cry when I saw it. It’s so righteous, my Wei Wei is really going to die bravely, so he was tied up and taken away. It’s the same as the scene of facing the firing squad Like, the feeling of a movie... Hmph, if I hadn't read the novel before, I would have wanted to call someone to save you!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Sister, you have a little girlish heart! My brave little brother, you are super handsome today, and Mi Le and Ye Ruiyang also performed very well. Although the names you used in the play made me play, but when I think back It's pretty good, it seems that the three of you are really going to the execution ground, it's very immersive."

"Why do I feel that you really want to see this scene? Curse us if you have nothing to do?"

"No, in short, your script selection is good, and the characters are well acted. By the way, if you are interested in Sartre and his group, I can recommend some works for you, such as..."

It's also really interesting, she first banned me from reading a batch of books, and now she pushed me a batch of books.But I really like this script, which is adapted from a novel by Mr. Huang. There was no text in the Chinese class on the morning of the 7th, so he took us to read the novel.The author is Jean-Paul Sartre from France. His title is very long. He is not just a writer. The most impressive thing is that he rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature.My sister likes French literature very much. When Mr. Huang talked about it, I guessed that she might have read his works. [2]
The plot of the novel is very simple. It begins with the capture of three revolutionary fighters during the Spanish Civil War. One of them is not actually a fighter, but his brother is, who is just a child.The three of them entered the cell, and were quickly told that they would be shot the next morning. The child broke down and cried, and another revolutionary, Tom, became more and more frightened, and peed his pants in a gaffe.The protagonist "I" in the novel is also terrified, but faces death resolutely, trying to maintain calm and rationality, and maintain my dignity, "I want to die with a bit of backbone".They were in a cell waiting to be executed, and then a doctor came, said to help them, but in fact he was a lackey of the Communist Party, here to observe and play with the suffering of the three dying men.He would also suddenly remind them what time it was, cruel and disgusting, telling them that the time to be shot was getting closer and closer.When the morning of death came, the death squad took away the child and Tom. "I" heard the gunshots killing them, but still tried to control myself not to collapse.However, the Communist officers did not shoot "I", but asked "I" to confess the whereabouts of comrades on the condition of surviving. "I" was naturally unwilling to betray my comrades. In order to tease the communists, I deliberately said that my comrades were in the cemetery, and wanted them to make a trip in vain.After the officer came back, "I" was about to die, but was left alive.It turned out that the comrade really hid in the cemetery in the morning, and "I" betrayed him unintentionally as a joke.The protagonist finally sat on the ground and laughed so hard that his eyes filled with tears.

A black joke, no one can laugh after reading it with Lao Huang.He read the novel again, talking about existentialism, freedom of choice, sense of absurdity, and contingency. To be honest, I half-understand it.There is also a sentence, "Others are hell", which reminds me a bit of what I talked with Mi Le before. I don't know how he feels after reading it.Lao Huang asked everyone to think about it after class, and actors will be selected in the common class meeting of the two classes in the afternoon.

As a result, no one signed up except for the Chinese class representatives of the two classes.The two of them didn't think about who they were going to play. They both said that they had listened to the teacher's arrangement, and it seemed that they were reluctantly supporting Teacher Huang.It's not that the novel and the script are bad, but it may be a bit difficult for us. We are all twelve or thirteen-year-old children who don't know how to act.

Mr. Huang said that since no one signed up, he just hired someone.Lao Ban looked gloating at the side, I really wondered if Lao Huang would choose him to play that dog-legged doctor.

The first one to be cast was Mi Le, he came to play Julian, that kid.The class meeting was in our class, Mi Le moved the stool and sat between Ye Ruiyang and me.Ye Ruiyang patted him triumphantly and said don't be afraid, he wasn't really shot.Mi Le snorted, there was no reluctance on his face, but he was not very happy either.Lao Huang has always valued him very much, and Mi Le is well aware of this kindness.Lao Huang told him to go, and he would never refuse.As a student, the teacher's appreciation and trust are always attractive.When this appreciation and trust comes from your favorite teacher, it will naturally become the best encouragement in the world.

He then assigned roles to the two class representatives. Gu Feifei from the second class played the police officer, and Li Lu from our class played the doctor.It was surprising that the girls played the role of reactionaries, and Lao Huang also said that he would rent some uniforms for them.He then cast Zhang Taotao as the baker Garcia, a supporting character who never interfered in politics, whose only role was to tell the protagonist at the end that his comrade had been arrested.

The main characters are "I" and Tom.Lao Huang's eyes swept across the densely packed tables and chairs under the podium, and finally fixed on our place, which instantly shocked Ye Ruiyang and me.The hunch was right, he immediately asked Ye Ruiyang to play Tom.Now it's Mi Le who laughs at him, saying that he doesn't need to really pee his pants, just splash it with water.If it wasn't for class, the two of them would have had a fight.But Ye Ruiyang didn't refuse, he might really want to play this restless character, maybe he's just waiting for the teacher to call his name.In the novel, it is written that Tom is quite strong, white and fat, a bit like our eldest.

"Teacher, I want to sign up to be an actor!" Brother Chuan who was sitting behind the three of us suddenly raised his hand.

"Who do you want to play?" Lao Huang asked.

Nine out of ten it is Ibita, the "I".Ye Ruiyang peed his pants in fright, but Brother Chuan looked at death as if he were home. I want to laugh when I think of this scene.Boss Ye turned his head and stared at him fiercely. Mantis Cicada and Oriole were behind him, he was waiting for the teacher to order him, Brother Chuan was waiting for him to finish choosing the role.

"I'll act as the firing squad! One shot is accurate, and the service quality guarantees your satisfaction!" As he spoke, he assumed a shooting posture, and the non-existent muzzle trembled at Ye Ruiyang's head twice.People in both classes roared with laughter.

"Are you cheap?" Ye Ruiyang turned around and scolded him amidst noisy laughter.

Lao Huang really agreed, and by the way, he asked everyone who else would be a group performer.Shooting a classmate is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The boys all raised their hands enthusiastically, and a group of them was gathered in an instant.Later, a few girls were selected to act as the arrested civilians and the detective team.

The only candidate left for Ibeta has not yet been selected.It's also normal, the most important characters in the whole novel and script will be the finale.

I looked around again for a week, but no one raised their hands.The performance requires unscripted, and Ibita has the most lines, there will be long monologues, and the requirements for acting skills are also very high.Lao Huang walked down from the podium and walked through the obstacles of his classmates' chairs. He seemed to be walking casually, like playing drums and passing flowers, but he didn't know where he would stop.I tilt my head, thinking about the novel I read this morning.

Iberta is such a strange person.I don't quite understand the concepts Lao Huang talked about, but I can understand the hero's fear and bravery, even the self-defeating joke.What I don't know the most is that he keeps saying that since my life is over, it's worthless.How could it be worthless?If the sacrifice is worthless, why should one die?

Miller put his hand on my right shoulder.Maybe he wants to talk to me about something.But this is class. Although Lao Huang doesn't pay much attention to classroom discipline, it's not very good to hang shoulders and shoulders. Our old class is also here.

I subconsciously wanted to knock his hand off his right shoulder, but when I touched it, I realized that it was a right hand. Mi Le, who was sitting on my left, could only put his left hand on my shoulder.And that hand was much bigger and thicker than Mi Le's.

"Peve, you play."

I didn't realize it until Lao Huang sent out the script.I became the protagonist.He stared blankly at Mi Le and Ye Ruiyang beside him, as if we had just been caught in a cell.The rehearsal is about to start. Lao Huang said that we can change the names of the characters in the play according to our own needs, because their full names are too long, and it is easier to get into the play with familiar ones.

I only see the title on the first page of the script, which is exactly the same as the novel, "The Wall".

[1] "One Hundred Years of Solitude": "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a novel written by Colombian writer García Márquez. The great work of ".The work describes the legendary stories of seven generations of the Buendia family and the century-old rise and fall of Macondo, a small town on the Caribbean coast, reflecting the changing history of Latin America over the past century.The works incorporate mysterious elements such as myths and legends, folk tales, and religious allusions, skillfully blending reality and fantasy, presenting a magnificent imaginary world, and becoming one of the important classic literary masterpieces of the 20th century.

[2] Sartre: Jean-Paul Sartre (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980), a French philosopher, writer, dramatist, critic, and social activist in the 20th century.He refused to accept any awards in his life, including the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature.His partner is Simon de Beauvoir.He is the author of the novels "The Wall", "Disgusting" and "Road to Freedom", plays "The Fly" and "Confinement", academic works "Existence and Nothingness", "Existentialism is a Humanism", etc.

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