Chapter 9 "Forty Days on Mount Moses"

"Forty Days on Mount Moses" The story of "Forty Days on Mount Moses" is said to be during the European War, in 1915 In the summer of 2018, when the battle clouds were at its strongest, several small villages in Armenia near the Turkish border Zhuang suddenly received a letter from Turkey about the existence of Armenians in these villages. Now, it is enough to hinder the safety of Turkey, so that they all move immediately to a remote place far away. Go to a remote place to live temporarily until the war is over and then come back.Although it is said so, although it is also given to them

pointed out a destination, but in reality their destination was death, and it was the Turks who Because of their planned aggression.In the face of this irresistible violence, tame Armenia People suddenly felt the humiliation of being oppressed by aliens, so under the wings of death, all Armenia People, about 5,000 people of the same clan in seven villages, ignited the enthusiasm of resistance, and would rather die than jade, Not safe, took all the weapons, children and livestock furniture, fled to the top of Mount Moses by the sea Now, on this Jedi, try to arrange possible defenses, and prepare to resist the massacre of the Turks.

A priest, an Armenian army officer returning from Paris, made this group of mourners A leader of people driven to the brink of fate. Under the gunfire of the Turks, in the struggle of hunger and disease, in the struggle of blood and flesh, Facing the inescapable threat of death, these 5,000 Armenians resisted for four weeks on the mountaintop. For ten days, almost died, until by chance, a French warship passed under the cliff, Only then did the remaining people be rescued. The tragedy of this hero who resisted the oppression of a foreign race was the heartbreaking story of the European War in the Near East.

The following is a tragic historical fact. Around 1929, a modern German poet Franz Werfel, I heard this story by chance, and knew it was an earth-shattering and excellent material, so I used his vivid The pen, the narrative force of the epic, and the profound anatomy of human nature have been written into an 800-page novel:— — Forty Days on Mount Moses. Weifer is a Jew, and in this novel, he deeply focused on the pain of his own race. sorrow. The seeds of resistance hidden in human nature will burst into brilliant fire in an unrelenting situation Flowers come, obliterate all barriers and dignity, and on the edge of life and death, for the unbearable,

A spiritual insult, a united and lifeless struggle, this is exactly what Werfell describes in this novel. Included spirit.