[오늘의 한문장] Skylark

Cute Caleb!

"Will you worry if it doesn‘t rain?" asked Caleb.
"Yes, but we‘ll get along," said Papa. "We always get along."
"Imagine having to leave," said Sarah.
Papa took off his jacket.
"We‘d never leave, Sarah," he said. "We were born here. Our names are written in this land."
When Papa and Sarah went inside, Caleb looked at me. I knew what he was going to say, and I didn‘t want to hear it. - P6

"Sarah wasn‘t born here," he said.
I picked up the pail of grain for the chickens.
"I know that, Caleb," I said crossly. "Papa knows it, too."
Caleb took a stick and bent down in the dirt. I watched him write SARA. He lookedup at me.
"I‘m writing Sarah‘s name in the land," he said.
"You can‘t even spell, Caleb," I said. "You can‘t."
I walked away. When I turned to look at Caleb, he was staring at me. I wanted to say I was sorry for being cross with him. But I didn‘t. - P7

"You fell in love with us," said Caleb in the doorway.
"I did that," she said. "First your letters. Then you."
"Did you fall in love with Papa‘s letters, too? Before you knew him?" asked Caleb.
I sat on the bed and watched Sarah‘s faceas as she remembered.
"Yes, I loved your Papa‘s letters," said Sarah softly. "I loved what was between the lines most."
"What was between the lines?" Caleb asked.
Sarah looked at me when she answered. - P12

"His life," she said simply. "That was what was between the lines."
"Papa‘s not always good with words," I said.
"Sometimes, yes," said Sarah, laughing. "But when I read your Papa‘s letters, I could see this farm, and the animals and the sky. And you. Sometimes, what people choose to write down on paper is more important than what they say."
Caleb didn‘t know what Sarah meant. But I knew. I wrote in my journal every night. And when I read what I had written, I could see myself there, clearer than when I looked in the mirror. I could see all of us: Papa, who couldn‘t always say the things he felt; Caleb, who said everything, and Sarah, who didn‘t know that she had changed us all. - P13

[100자평] Holes

Holes (Prebound, Turtleback Scho)
Sachar, Louis / Turtleback Books / 2000년 5월

재밌다. 유명한 책은 다 이유가 있다. 앞 부분 두 번째 읽으니 처음에 보지 못했던 떡밥들을 회수할 수 있었다. 집안의 저주를 극복하는 주인공의 성장 이야기 뿐만 아니라 슬프지만 멋진 러브 스토리가 강렬한 인상을 남긴다.

[오늘의 한문장] Holes

Two nights later, Stanley lay awake staring up at the star-filled sky. He was too happy to fall asleep.
He knew he had no reason to be happy. He had heard orread somewhere that right before a person freezes to death, he suddenly feels nice and warm. He wondered if perhaps hewas experiencing something like that.
It occurred to him that he couldn‘t remember the last timehe felt happiness. It wasn‘t just being sent to Camp GreenLake that had made his life miserable. Before that he‘d beenunhappy at school, where he had no friends, and bullies likeDerrick Dunne picked on him. No one liked him, and thetruth was, he didn‘t especially like himself.
He liked himself now.
He wondered if he was delirious. - P186

[오늘의 한문장] Holes

What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn‘t his actual death. He figured he could handle the pain. It wouldn‘t be much worse than what he felt now. In fact, maybe at themoment of his death he would be too weak to feel pain. Death would be a relief. What worried him the most was the thought of his parents not knowing what happened to him, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. He hated to imag-ine what it would be like for his mother and father, day afterday, month after month, not knowing, living on false hope. For him, at least, it would be over. For his parents, the painwould never end. - P163

[오늘의 한문장] Holes

흥미진진! 전혀 기대하지 못한 가슴 아픈 스토리!

The only person who wasn‘t happy with it was Miss Katherine. She‘d run out of things needing to be fixed.
She sat at her desk one afternoon, listening to the pitter-patter of the rain on the roof. No water leaked into the classroom, except for the few drops that came from her eyes.
"Onions! Hot sweet onions!" Sam called, out on the street. She ran to him. She wanted to throw her arms around him but couldn‘t bring herself to do it. Instead she hugged Mary Lou‘s neck.
"Is something wrong?" he asked her.
"Oh, Sam," she said. "My heart is breaking."
"I can fix that," said Sam.
She turned to him.
He took hold of both of her hands, and kissed her.
Because of the rain, there was nobody else out on the street. Even if there was, Katherine and Sam wouldn‘t have noticed. They were lost in their own world.
At that moment, however, Hattie Parker stepped out of the general store. They didn‘t see her, but she saw them. She pointed her quivering finger in their direction and whispered, "God will punish you!" - P111

"I always get drunk before a hanging."
"A hanging? Who-"
"It‘s against the law for a Negro to kiss a white woman." - P113

"Well, then you‘ll have to hang me, too," said Katherine.
"Because I kissed him back."
"It ain‘t against the law for you to kiss him," the sheriff ex-plained. "Just for him to kiss you."
"We‘re all equal under the eyes of God," she declared.
The sheriff laughed. "Then if Sam and I are equal, why won‘t you kiss me?" He laughed again. "I‘ll make you a deal. One sweet kiss, and I won‘t hang your boyfriend. I‘ll just runhim out of town."
Miss Katherine jerked her hand free. As she hurried to the door, she heard the sheriff say, "The law will punish Sam.
And God will punish you." - P114