Why it never ends

Chapter 128 The Unbreakable Barrier
Hesta closed the book.

Ava looked at the others, "Among us, has anyone else watched "The Mountains Under the Storm"?"

A young man sitting a little further away raised her hand, and she said softly, "I have read... but I haven't finished it, when I was in college."

"Do you still have an impression of the paragraph just now?"

"Of course there is, after all, Eureka just read it."

There was a burst of laughter from the people around.

"What do you think of the role of Aksinya?" Ava asked.

The young man thought for a while, then she looked at everyone, and said softly: "I don't have a deep impression of her. I remember that Aksinya's fate was very rough in her life. Although she was bold, rebellious, warm and straightforward, she was like Like most Cossack women, they entrust their happiness and value to a man—in this case, her lover Gregory. Without Gregory, she cannot live. This blind love It made her end so bleakly at the end...which is why I don't like the character so much.

"However, despite this, every time I read this opening paragraph, I sigh that she has a good brother and a good mother."

The young man's voice was very gentle, and the rhythm of her speech was also very soothing, like a melodious harp.

"In the face of such a crime, they did not choose to cover it up, but severely punished the perpetrator in their own way—even if this person was their father or husband."

"Yes, it's really rare." Arga nodded in agreement, "I read in the newspaper earlier that a mother found out that her daughter was defiled by her new husband after remarrying—but she didn't care for her daughter. It is absurd to uphold justice and put her daughter in the attic instead."

"What happened to that daughter?" asked Hesta.

"It seems that she was rescued. After that, she should have changed her name and surname, and changed her life in a different city." Alja replied, "If she also had such a mother and brother, she probably wouldn't have such an ending."

Hesta was about to say something when Ava interrupted her.

"You just said that Aksinia's fate affects you the most, so what did you see in this paragraph?"

"Well...revenge," replied Hesta, "immediate vengeance on the perpetrator."

"Any more?"

"And patricide." Another older middle-aged man added, "It seems that in psychoanalysis, young children always complete their growth through the death of their father."

"Indeed, after this incident, Aksinya got married in the second year." The previous young man took over, "...Although it is a kind of growth, it is also the beginning of another misfortune. "

"No," Hesta shook his head suddenly, "no growth."

The previous "father killing" was like a wedge, digging a gap in her chaotic and boiling thoughts.

"I was wrong just now, and I should correct it." Hesta said, "In this story, there is no revenge, and even if it exists, it is a failed revenge. Aksinya just changed her identity, from a daughter to a Became a wife and didn't grow up.

"If anyone has to be said to have grown up in this story, it would be her brother, not her. After killing the patricide, Aksinia's brother became the new master of the family."

"But you can't deny that the perpetrator has indeed been punished as he should." The young man on the side said, "Her justice has been served."

"Not necessarily, the perpetrator is indeed dead, but it did not come from Aksinya herself," retorted Hestad, "she just lay with her head covered and trembling silently under the cart." '—"

"Are you asking too much of the victim?" The young man frowned and interrupted her, "She had just experienced such a cruel atrocity, but you asked her to immediately take a knife and stab her Father, otherwise the 'revenge' will not be considered complete - what is the point of your insisting on revenge?"

"Listen to her finish, Aya." Ava said softly.

Hesta gripped the handle of her chair tightly, and she felt a rush of water rushing from her chest.She had to control her emotions carefully, lest this painful flame flow out of her heart and burn other people in this glass house.

"I didn't ask Aksinya to stab her father with a knife immediately after being brutally abused." Hesta paused briefly, her eyes looking at the ground in front of her feet, "I just regret that when she When her elder brother and mother beat her father with a shaft, she didn't step on it.

"This opportunity was once in front of her, but she missed it—if at that time, someone taught her to stand up, and someone handed her a gun, a whip, and a wooden stick, and asked her to pay back to that old man The color, let her truly experience the joy of knocking a bully to the ground... Will her fate be different in the future?"

Everyone listened quietly.

"The misfortune of her life is precisely because she is her father's daughter and husband's wife, so her father raped her, and she could only hide and tremble under the car; her husband beat her badly, and she went to seek the love of another man , She pinned her everything on the hero Gregory, begged this man to take her away, and give up everything for her... What is she doing?
"The meaning of revenge is to clarify one's own boundaries. It is not for others to see, but for yourself: Oh, so I don't need to forgive, so I don't need to seek justice for me, so I myself These people can be made to pay a price - the same amount, or even a more painful price...

"Without this awareness, Aksinya will always be a vassal, from her father, to her husband, and finally to her lover."

"That's hard." Another middle-aged man who had been silent all this time said slowly, "Being raped by your father is far more painful than being raped by an ordinary man... Can you understand this?"

"Maybe I can't... I don't have a father," replied Hesta.

Several people present suddenly looked at Hesta with more pity, but Hesta didn't notice this, and she didn't have any self-pity when she said these words.

After giving this answer, she seemed to suddenly understand something, and she murmured: "Yes, I have no father, no brother, no husband, and no son, so I don't understand Aksinya at all—and What most of the women in this book do.

"Why Aksinya's fate concerns me the most, because in this book—at least in the first volume, she is hardworking, brave, kind... When I read about her, I immediately think of my friends , each of them is as diligent, as brave, and as kind as Aksinya, but none of them have such a miserable fate.

"A long time ago, a friend of mine once told me that once a woman gets married, her brother is no longer her brother, but her husband's brother. When married, if her husband beats someone, the brother may still They will help you get ahead, but after they get married, they will just stand by and watch.

"I didn't understand then, and I understand now—where was Aksinya's brother when Stepan beat her up?"

(End of this chapter)