11월, 2022의 게시물 표시

Caring for Plants by Hye-young Pyun

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 Rating:6/10  This short story starts with an accident scene from the beginning. A nurse in the hospital showed that he was seriously injured but survived, and his wife died. I think the problem started with the fact that it was his wife's mother who took care of him. While hiring caregivers, he lives with a lot of help because there are many things he cannot do alone. Of course, this process was not smooth, but the problem began at some point when his mother dug pits in the yard, hired a theraphist, but she didn't call it a starting point, and when he could return to his job as he worked as a teacher in the past, she said he wouldn't. In fact, I had a creepy feeling from this part. However, digging a hole to plant plants made him think that she was trying to kill and bury him by digging a suspiciously large hole in a corner where he could not see well, and covering it with a tarpaulin on the day she called someone. As mentioned above, I thought the fact that she had a grud

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

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Rating:7.5/10    In the story, she said she had to find a job as a cleaning woman so she told her alcoholic husband died leaving four children behind. At first I thought she lied to get along, but later I thought that maybe it is just because it was unwilling truth. Also, the part that seemed to reflect the writer was the part that showed her hard days, and she steals sleeping pills unlike the various items that other cleaners steal. Thinking about this, she was probably trying to commit suicide because it was a very harsh situation.  Thinking about the story again, she made her own unique manuals by visiting and interacting with many people's homes as a cleaning woman. There was talk of feminism, there was a description of these poor low-income people, and you could think about the United States of America at that time, about the 1980s. Personally, rather than talking deeply about one topic, I thought that various topics might have been incorporated into the images depicted by ha