英語検定ライティング準１級（第600回）

アーモンド「不思議な物語に泣けた話」

人間の脳内には扁桃体がある。アーモンドの形をしている。この物体が小さすぎると感情が湧かない。そんなこどもが感情の激しすぎる同級生と出会う文学作品がある。ある韓国人女性が書いて日本で翻訳大賞を獲得した。感想を言語化できない。

There is an amygdala in our brains, whose form is like an almond, and we cannot feel various kinds of emotions if such object should be too small, an online article says.
These emotions might include disappointment, comfort, happiness, sorrow, anger, uneasiness, anxiety and so on.
In this literature, a certain boy child grows up to become an adult while he encounters various people, he laments.
One day, he met a classmate with too unstable feelings at school, which began to change something significant in his head, and he regained what should be vital to him.
The conclusion says that changing what we are should make positive or negative contributions to what we do, and this phenomenon would turn out to be something mysterious, which we cannot guess the end, he assumes.
This heartwarming novel was written by a female Korean author, which was awarded by numerous and countless bookstore staffs working in Japan, an online article says.
What challenges him might be that he cannot come up with a means to describe his impressions, to his sorrow.
Reading these literatures cannot fail to have so positive influences on our society in an economic perspective.