영어로 읽는 고전 _ 엘리너 H. 포터의 메리 마리
"메리 마리"는 엘리너 H. 포터가 20세기 초에 쓴 소설입니다. 이야기는 이혼한 부모 사이에서 상반된 세계 사이에 끼어 있는 어린 소녀 메리 마리 앤더슨의 삶을 중심으로 전개됩니다. 그녀는 아버지와 함께할 때는 메리, 어머니와 함께할 때는 마리라는 이중 정체성을 탐색하면서 가족 역학, 이혼이 아이들에게 미치는 영향, 그리고 그녀 자신의 성장과 정체성을 탐구합니다.
책의 시작 부분은 열세 살 소녀인 메리 마리를 소개합니다. 그녀는 자신의 가족 상황의 독특함, 특히 또래들 사이에서는 흔하지 않은 이혼 시대에 살고 있다는 사실을 즐깁니다. 이야기는 그녀가 일기를 시작하면서 부모의 이별에 대한 감정을 탐색하고 자신의 삶을 흥미로운 이야기로 기록하고 싶은 욕구를 반영하는 신선하고 호기심 많은 관점을 통해 제시됩니다. 초반 장들은 각각 고유한 성격과 그녀의 삶에 대한 영향력을 가진 매우 다른 두 부모 사이에서 시간을 나누며 준비하는 과정에서 천진난만한 순진함과 흥분과 혼란이 뒤섞인 그녀의 여정을 위한 무대를 마련합니다.
Classics Read in English _ Mary Marie by Eleanor H. Porter
"Mary Marie" by Eleanor H. Porter is a novel written in the early 20th century. The narrative revolves around the life of a young girl named Mary Marie Anderson, who finds herself caught between the contrasting worlds of her divorced parents. As she navigates her dual identities?Mary with her father and Marie with her mother?she explores themes of family dynamics, the impact of divorce on children, and her own growth and identity.
The opening of the book introduces Mary Marie, a thirteen-year-old girl who relishes the uniqueness of her family situation, particularly the fact that she is living in an era of divorce, which is not common among her peers. The narrative is presented through her fresh, curious perspective as she begins her diary, exploring her feelings about her parents' separation and reflecting on her desire to document her life as an exciting story. The initial chapters set the stage for her journey, filled with whimsical innocence and a blend of excitement and confusion as she prepares to split her time between her two very different parents, each with their own personalities and influences on her life.
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The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
That's the way it ought to begin, I know, and I'd like to do it, but I can't. I'm beginning with my being born, of course, and Nurse Sarah says the sun wasn't shining at all. It was night and the stars were out. She remembers particularly about the stars, for Father was in the observatory, and couldn't be disturbed. (We never disturb Father when he's there, you know.) And so he didn't even know he had a daughter until the next morning when he came out to breakfast. And he was late to that, for he stopped to write down something he had found out about one of the consternations in the night.
He's always finding out something about those old stars just when we want him to pay attention to something else. And, oh, I forgot to say that I know it is "constellation," and not "consternation."
