![]() ![]() Compared to Redshirt, she's far and away the superior person. ![]() ![]() ![]() She would have been deeply impressed by it. Kiyo never laughed at me for saying anything like what I said to Redshirt. If people are going to get laughed at for being simpleminded and sincere, there's no hope. Wouldn't their students, and the world at large, be better off that way? Redshirt had laughed at me for being simpleminded. The schools might as well just go ahead and teach you how to tell lies, how to mistrust everybody, and how to take advantage of people. If that's the way it is, it would be better if they didn't have those ethics classes in elementary school and middle school where the teacher is always telling you to be honest and not lie. And then on those rare occasions when they encounter somebody who's honest and pure-hearted, they look down on him and say he's nothing but a kid, a Botchan. They seem to think that if you don't, you'll never get anywhere in the world. Throughout this novel a lot of questions were raised and for the most part eventually answered. This novel was written in 1914 which was two years after the death of Emperor Meiji. “Now that I thought about it, though, I realized that most people actually encourage you to turn bad. Soseki’s novel the Kokoro (The heart of things) was a very pleasant novel to read. Souseki Natsume wrote this in his essay ‘My individualism’, which retrospect the prehistory of shaping ‘A theory of literature’ and it was the description when he was studying abroad in England in loneliness. ![]()
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