In Chapter 2 of Milan Kundera's Book of Laughs and Forgetfulness, his son Carlisle often laughs at his mother's eyesight. They looked like a boundary marker, and in the eyes of their mother, they were just ordinary houses. "But the weakness of the mother's eyesight actually seems to express something more essential: they look at big things, and she feels small."
"When tanks from surrounding powers invaded their country, it was so shocking and frightening." But my mother only worries about the ripe pears in the garden in August. In the past, Carlisle would think that his mother was only thinking about her own business, and they quarreled about it and accused her of being narrow-minded. "But is the tank really more important than the pear? As the years passed, Carlisle realized that the answer to this question was not as obvious as he always thought. In the mother's vision, the foreground is a big pear, the background A little farther up, there is a tank not much bigger than a ladybug, which can fly away at any time and disappear out of sight. My mother is right: tanks are perishable, and pears are eternal."
View more about Sunshine reviews
