TOO REAL TO LIFE
When Nikos Kazantzakis was a small boy, the Turks sometimes entered his little village and massacred people. One time, after another massacre, Nikos’s father took him out to where the massacre had happened and made him touch the dead men’s corpses that were hanging from the trees. Nikos’ father did not want him to forget. He wanted Nikos to remember how important freedom was. As a result, Nikos Gazantzakis wrote a book, The Greek Passion. The story is about the people in the small Greek village of Lycrovissi. Every year the people reenacted the passion narrative as a part of their Easter celebration. The planning for the event took a year and so a year in advance, the people who were to play the different parts were chosen. One year, a simple shepherd lad named Manolios was chosen to play the part of Christ. A villager named Panayotaros was chosen to portray Judas and other villagers were chosen for other…
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