After four weeks Pierre has adjusted well to life in the prison camp. The experience has been invigorating. He gets along well with the other prisoners and with the guards. They plan to leave Moscow soon.
After four weeks Pierre has adjusted well to life in the prison camp. The experience has been invigorating. He gets along well with the other prisoners and with the guards. They plan to leave Moscow soon.
Book 13, Chapter 11
After four weeks Pierre has adjusted well to life in the prison camp. The experience has been invigorating. He gets along well with the other prisoners and with the guards. They plan to leave Moscow soon.
Summary:
After four weeks in the prison camp, Pierre’s clothes are dirty and torn. Physically he had changed much during this time. He no longer seemed stout. The former slackness which had shown itself even in his eyes was now replaced by an energetic readiness for action and resistance. The look of his eyes is resolute, calm, and animatedly alert, as never before. His feet were bare. Pierre has learned a lot during these weeks and this recollection is pleasant to him. He gets along well with the other prisoners and the guards, and has long conversations with the captain in charge of the camp, who admires Pierre. Pierre acts as translator when needed. Pierre still shares a hut with Platón, who has just made a shirt for one of the guards. A playful dog lives with them in the camp. Nearly all the troops are leaving Moscow and an order about the prisoners is expected that day.. Pierre makes sure that another prisoner who is ill will be cared for when the rest of them leave.
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What sunshine, Monsieur Kiril! (Their name for Pierre.) Eh? Just like spring!
And the corporal leaned against the door and offered Pierre his pipe, though whenever he offered it Pierre always declined it.
To be on the march in such weather… he began.
Pierre inquired what was being said about leaving, and the corporal told him that nearly all the troops were starting and there ought to be an order about the prisoners that day. Sokolóv, one of the soldiers in the shed with Pierre, was dying, and Pierre told the corporal that something should be done about him. The corporal replied that Pierre need not worry about that as they had an ambulance and a permanent hospital and arrangements would be made for the sick, and that in general everything that could happen had been foreseen by the authorities.
Besides, Monsieur Kiril, you have only to say a word to the captain, you know. He is a man who never forgets anything. Speak to the captain when he makes his round, he will do anything for you.
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