The Great Gilly Hopkins

著者 : KatherinePaterson

• HarperCollins (2004年4月13日発売)

感想・レビュー・書評

[snow222さんの感想 · 2014年8月6日]

[図書館]
読了：2014/8/5

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Interest Level: 6-8
Reading Level: 5.3

あれー、終盤まではとても良かったのに。ラストが駆け足過ぎ。Trotterがキリスト教的説教をし始めた時は、超後味の悪い結末になるのかと少しぞわぞわとした。

William Earnestはかわいいな。家出事件後に心を開き始めるGillyもかわいい。ただ変化の仕方がいかにも大人好みだな、と思った。
あんなに産みの母に執着していたのに、すんなりTrotterをMy motherと呼べるものかなぁ。
あと、対面して実母のひどい有様を見たけど、それでもどうにかがんばれば愛情を得られるのではないかと、わずかな希望にすがってしまう子どもの方が多いと思う。だから、虐待も毒親もなくならないんではないか。そういうところでリアルさには少し欠けた。

p. 70 When did the cobra strike?

p. 119 Gilly hesitated for a moment, waiting for the sermon that was bound to pour forth, if not from him, surely from Trotter. But neither spoke, so she took Mr. Randolph's hand, instead if his elbow as usually did, as a kind of thank you.

p. 142 "My family is sick."
Agnes sneered. "What family? Everybody knows..."
"My brother." At this William Earnest raised his head up proudly. "My mother. And my--uncle."
"Gilly Hopkins. That is the dumbest idea..."
Gilly dpu around and jammed her nose down onto Agnes's face, her mouth going sideways and narrow exactly like Humphrey Bogart's on TV. "You want to discuss this further--sweetheart?"

p. 159 "Tell me all about yourself, but I wish you would. I want to get to know you."
That's not how you get to know people. Don't you know? You can't talk it out, you got to live into their lives, bad and good. You'll know me soon. What I want you to know.

Trotterのところで暮らしたからこう思うようになったんだろうなぁ。