英語検定ライティング準１級（第502回）

残留邦人「そういうことがあったのかという話」

大地の子を読み終わった。内容に夢中になれたので４日で読んだ。父と子が再会した場面は別の家族の一員が死んだところだった。主人公は数え切れないほど試練を経験する。そこを乗り越えるのがフィクションの醍醐味だ。筆者も調査に3年を費やし8年がかりで執筆したという大傑作が読めて幸福だった。
Yesterday he finished reading the famous masterpiece “Children in the Great Motherland,” which might made him concentrate on its contents, so he finished it within four days, and he has felt accomplishments, she says.
When a main character recognized his Japanese father in the rural area, they lamented another member of their family aged 41 who died of serious illness, to our regret.
He experienced numerous challenges in his life, but he overcame such tough affairs, which a reader could enjoy.
This author’s novels has been based on the non-fiction because she researches what happened over and over again, although she took pains in order to learn about what China had in those days, an online article says.
It took her about three years to research to collect an extremely amount of information in China, and it took her about eight years to finish writing this novel, we assume.
When we finish reading marvelous accomplishments and achievements, we won’t fail to bring home to us, he says.

中国共産党に苦しめられた人の本を読むと全体主義に対する怒りが湧いてくる。日本社会も全体主義だからだ。中国には人民服という制服があるが日本の学校にも制服がある。経済格差を誤魔化すための制服だが全体主義の象徴だ。他人と違うことをするなという命令だ。個性を失わせる政策に苦しめるられる。
In China, numerous ordinary citizens have been suffered from the notorious communism party, which might be the symbol of the dictatorial governmental system, she says.
There are various kinds of essays and novels, in which numerous innocent people complained about someone dictatorial, which cannot fail to make us furious towards totalitarianism because common public in our society have been involved in the same circumstances, she says.
Almost all Chinese citizens wear their people’s clothings, which forces us to associate miserable slaves with their totalitarianism, and Japanese educational systems make the students wear the uniform, after all, we have been used to the atmosphere created by someone malicious.
Of course, the uniform system saves us extra time in the morning, simultaneously, it makes positive contributions to our parents in the economic and financial viewpoints.
However, the controllers have cheated ordinary citizens in the confusion with such a meaningless system, and it fails to overcome the continuous depressions, she says.
Wearing the same clothes means that common public shouldn’t perform their own personalities, in other words, we mustn’t conduct something different from others.
Originally, humans can’t tolerate something compulsory.