in such a suffering condition and still can feel the joyness and together with friend, joking aroud. at the time while we capture snakes for supper , i think it is so realistic and funny, although it's nothing in general , but during the war time, it's especially rarity. i always think the friendship in the fiction is more perfect, is that what's called daman and pythias? i never read a novel regarding on warfares, i always assume that the protaganist finnaly got the reputation , but , unexpectly, he just died, i don't pefer the death of the main character , is the death the payment to get to a sublimation of life ?
In the novel, although people were in a difficult environment, they still had a good mood to chat and joke with their friends happily, and I remembered quite clearly there was a short part talked about they cooked snakes meat for supper, which made me feel so authentic and funny.
I can't deny that all those things sound very ordinary in our daily life, but during the war, they became much more valuable.
I always think the friendship in the fiction is much better than that in our real world, maybe the reason is that they are lifelong friends.
I have never read a war novel before, I hadn't thought that the protagonist would die for reputation in the end, unexpectly, he died, I don't want to read his death, I become wondering whether the death is the only way to tell the sublimation of the soul ?