'Naples Tale' a pair of shoes changes boundaries

This is an article written after reading "Naples Tales", and its eponymous series may be interpreted as an Italian "period drama". From the first-person point of view, the friendship between two girls from the first grade of elementary school, their life experiences, and the various challenges in life are narrated. The story itself is true, but the social and economic instability of Napoli at that time also created drama in life, and the turmoil caused by daily life is the highlight of the novel.

But don't forget, usually these small storms can end up causing huge waves, and this is also true in reality.

I read the novel while watching the album. The album can always be finished faster. Most of the plot is almost the same as the statement, including the characters imagined from the text. The appearance is similar to the actors in the album.

I went out this morning and walked to the dessert shop. It was a 15-minute walk for one kilometer. There were several buildings under construction and many newly renovated shops along the way. Suddenly, a passage from "Naples Story" popped into my mind. Statement: There is construction all over the city of Naples, everything is booming, as if the economy is starting to develop and people are making money….

We know that the south of Italy is still very poor even now. Young people are eager to go north to study and find employment. If there is a good opportunity, they will not stay in the south. It is also just like the train from the south to Turin or Milan in the north. Both are fathers and brothers of someone whose minimum wage in the North is worth leaving their hometowns.

I have lived in this half-city city for nearly five years, and I seem to see hope , but near my hometown in Taipei (in the 1990s, it was said to be the Dunbei of Taipei Wall Street) is full of vacated storefronts. Sometimes all I can remember is the "process" of a certain event, an office building under construction, a real estate that is about to start pre-sale... a very small fragment of personal memory, the first time I took the train to my grandmother's house alone, when I traveled. Looking forward to reaching a destination, but I don't remember the "results" of those things.

That pair of shoes draws the line

When I was a child, my mother always said that shoes and bags are the most important things for a person's clothes. She explained that leather goods can best tell a person's taste and identity. If the budget is not enough, you should start with these two items first.

In "Naples Tale", the heroine's childhood friend Lila uses the output of a certain pair of shoes to divide the "line" of her family's life changes. Lila's father and brother are both shoe repairers. They have a small workshop, repair shoes for others and live in a slum, of course, the living conditions are very poor. And Lila noticed that new residential areas were gradually being built in the surrounding urban areas, and people seemed to be getting richer, so she advocated that "people will spend when they have money", and encouraged her brother to complete her secret plan to create those for the rich. If you wear handmade shoes, you can slowly open a factory and hire people... Finally, mass production becomes a brand, and they can also get rich by making shoes.

It was a secret plan because she knew that her father would not allow her brother to build other shoes after work, and that her father's ambitions were not so great.

In fact, this is a very "normal" means of making money (a plan) in a developing country, but from the mouth of a fourteen-year-old shoemaker's daughter who has only graduated from elementary school, it still makes people feel that her extraordinary ambitions - originally Although the family is very poor, her father and brother have long been accustomed to their social and economic status for generations. She and her brother mentioned her plan and said with confidence that it would be a success. The brother who had always believed and protected her was also shaken.

The two began to secretly create a pair of exquisite handmade men's shoes.

This pair of shoes made her brother start to dream of becoming a rich man, and this dream can be said to be caused by Lila, maybe when the grievances of the role of "Shoemaker's Son" have been accumulated for a long time and see those people in the city who make "dark money" More and more arrogant and domineering, and his uncontrollable greed is growing more and more - he also wants to get rich and achieve the style of doing things that he used to call villains.

Coincidence of various things (no spoilers) brother became arrogant and lazy, and only a few months in the process of their plan to make high-end handmade shoes, before even starting a real career, let him go from a friendly People who turned into "outrageous people"... I read this and it felt very real. It seems to be a family tragedy that often happens in developing cities. Some people even think that they will be rich in the future and start to borrow money to gamble. Bet on an unknown future.

beauty in the process

Going back to what I said earlier, when I was walking in this not-so-metropolis city, I saw what it looked like under construction, and also saw the joy of potential shop owners and owners, and how long can this kind of beauty last?

Just outside Taiwan, where there is a threat of war.

It is possible that the sense of expectation when planning something is the best. It is like a city under construction. People always expect that when there is a store, there will be a crowd, and when there is a crowd, there will be a market, but it may also be the first. A store can only be built here if there are people and there is a market; if a store is built without people, it may eventually become a mosquito house.

In "Naples Story", just because of a pair of shoes, my brother's ambition was ignited. He is no longer the old brother who kept his own way. This should have been good, but his behavior and ability could not support his dream...

Lila even said: Is there something wrong with me? Why people always do wrong because of me.

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