Vi faccio paragonare:
"Per la paura di morire ogni giorno affrontavano la morte." —Sciascia, Il giorno della civetta, p. 29
verso:
"Ora, essi non avevano mai combattuto, tuttavia non temevano la morte; e pensavano più alla libertà dei loro padri che alla loro vita; sì, le loro madri avevano loro insegnato che, se non avessero dubitato, Dio li avrebbe liberati." —Alma 56:47
(Avete notato la frase ipotetica alla fine di quel versetto? Eccola: "se non avessero dubitato, Dio li avrebbe liberati." È una frase ipotetica, però è anche un'idea che dovremmo ricordare ogni giorno quando ci confrontiamo con le difficoltà della vita.)
Il contrasto tra queste due frasi ed i personaggi che sono descritti è grandissimo. Il coraggio viene mostrato dai giovani in modo umile, poiché dimostrano la loro dipendenza sul Signore, verso i mafiosi nel libro che uccidono e sistemano vari modi per ritenere i loro segreti cattivi.
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For my Italian writing class, we have weekly journal entries due, so as to better our writing by writing frequently. I must admit that as I wrote similar journals in
Siena, I definitely noticed improvement in my writing as my speaking improved.
Here's a translation of the above excerpt. The first quote comes from a romanzo giallo (crime novel) about the Sicilian mafia that takes place shortly after WWII that we've just started reading in my other Italian class.
Please compare this:
"For the fear of dying, every day they confronted death." —Sciascia, Il giorno della civetta, p. 29
with this:
"Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them."
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Alma 56:47
(In the Italian translation, the last part reads in one of the common forms of a hypothetical phrase which I'd recently reviewed in class: "if they did not doubt, God would deliver them." I was appreciating the unsought grammar review, but beyond that, I think this is something we should remember every day as we confront life's little battles.)
The contrast between these two quotes and the people they describe is enormous. Humble courage is shown by the valiant young men in the Book of Mormon in their dependence upon the Lord, versus the mafia characters in the book who kill and plan and scheme to hide their evil secrets.
It's interesting how something which from the surface might seem like less courageous is actually more so; this idea puts so many things in perspective, about what is important and what is not.
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