Into this Silence of Watching In my present reading of War and Peace there is a new perspective of life. I could see it through two insignificant characters. One is the eight year-old boy and the other is a very old man. One is Natasha’s brother, heroine of the story, and the other one is the hero's (Prince Andrew) father. Tolstoy has knitted these characters into the novel in such fine fabric. They finely go along with the main texture of the novel. They cannot be removed from the larger texture. If these two threads are removed from the complete texture then it will unweave the whole fabric.