By Natsume Sōseki
ISBN-10: 0486122581
ISBN-13: 9780486122588
What's love, and what's friendship? what's the quantity of our accountability to ourselves and to others? Kokoro, signifying "the center of things," examines those age-old questions by way of the fashionable world.
A trilogy of news that explores the very essence of loneliness, Kokoro opens with "Sensei and I," during which the narrator recounts his courting with an highbrow who dwells in isolation yet continues a cosmopolitan worldview. "My mom and dad and I" brings the reader into the narrator's kin circle, and "Sensei and His Testament" beneficial properties the eponymous character's clarification of the way he got here to stay a lifetime of solitude.
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A minute or so later a beater of a rusty van speeds down County Road heading east. I have often thought about trying to get the township to erect a sign warning about the number of children here. Between the Shetler family and the Yoders just down the road, there are twenty-three children. Because there are no sidewalks, the Amish children have to walk to and from school in the road, and they often cluster in groups as they walk. “Everybody drives too fast around here,” I say. ” Samuel asks.
The man can treat a horse’s hoof like a university-trained vet, and he can birth a calf like a midwife. Samuel also has exceptional people skills, and an easily piqued sense of humor. Although he’s lived in the area for less time than I have, he knows ten times as many people, Amish and English alike. He’s intelligent and warm, curious about the modern world yet devoted to his own. But as curious and intelligent as Samuel is, he—like the vast majority of the Swartzentruber Amish with whom I associate— 6 p l a i n s e c re ts knows next to nothing about where his people came from.
Jonas was wide-eyed the first time Kathleen took him to the McDonald’s in Ashland, which features a black-and-white-checked s diner t h e l e av i n g 23 theme complete with rock ’n’ roll and movie icons on the wall. He had no idea who the musicians and film stars pictured were. “Who’s Elvis Presley anyway? ” Although Jonas concedes he might have been infatuated with Kathleen early on, he insists they’re only friends now. Kathleen, at twenty-six, is six years older than Jonas. She also has a two-year-old boy at home from a brief marriage.
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