先日読み終わった「あたしが帰る家」のワンシーンが私の頭にこびりつき悩まされています。よく動物の虐待の様子などにも悩まされるのですが、今回は少し違います。
時は昭和30年代、小学生の目でみた家庭生活や、かつ学校の様子などが描かれ、何となく読み進めてきたのですが、問題は終わり近くの「おばあちゃん」という章です。
たまに訪ねてくる口うるさい自分のおばあちゃんの存在を、疎ましく思っている主人公は、ある日同級生のおばあちゃんの様子に興味を持ち、「タカシ君ちのおばあちゃんを見学する会」を結成し８人で尋ねることになる。
母親はお使いにいき子供たちとおばあちゃんだけになる。
おばあちゃんは寝たきりで半ミイラみたいに横になっている。その抵抗できないおばあちゃんの口に子供たちがカワリバンコで、ゴミやほこりを落として笑い転げるシーンです。
そして自分の憎らしいおばあちゃんもこんな目にあえばいいと願うのです。
もしこんな主人公が身近にいたら、それがいけないことをしているのだと理解させ、どうやって説得すれば納得するのでしょう。
I have a friend at the club and she is a bookworm who loves reading and has a reservoir of books at home. She doesn’t know what to do with the books that she has read. Luckily once a month when she comes to the club for riding, she brings several books to lend me. Because of her generosity I can read various type of books. Some that I have read are interesting while others were not my taste.
There is one scene from the book that I have recently read that I couldn’t forget. It was a story about an elementary student’s life and her family and friends. The student hated her own grandmother who sometimes visited her house for varied reasons. She was more interested with her friend’s family because she doesn’t like her own.
One day she visited her friend’s home together with other 8 children. She was curious to see her friend’s bedridden grandma. The boy ushered his friends to his grandmother’s bedroom and there he did a most obnoxious action of passing his fingers through a very dusty furniture and shaking the dusty fingers on the half opened mouth of his grandmother. The old woman couldn’t resist and moved her tongue just a bit. All the children laughed and all of them repeated the horrible action. They had a good laugh at the expense of the old woman.
It is so sad to read how cruel some children could be. This story made me feel so bad.
The girl wished for her grandmother to be also like this old woman.
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