A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

"映画が余りにも良かったので、原作を読みたくなりました。本当に美しい英語でした。何回も読みたくなります..." ".... after reading it, you feel like EVERYONE needs to read it as well ..." " I think for these ages it's a good read and a powerful message but I'm a senior citizen and it didn't move me very much .." 이 작품은 청소년 소설이다. 좋은 평판도 있지만 성인이 읽기에는 아쉬운점이 있는거 같다는 평도 있다. 주인공의 나이를 생각하면 그런 점도 있지만 Monster가 전하는 이야기는 깊은 울림이 있는거 같다. 그리고 마지막에서 주인공이 깨닫는 교훈이 평이하다고 말할 수도 있지만 나름의 울림이 있다. YA 소설이라고 무시할 책은 아니다. 책을 읽을 시간이 없다면 영화를 봐도 좋을 듯 싶다. 핵심어는 nightmare, divorce, dying, honest, monster, missing, loss, lonely, reconciliation 등이 아닐까 .....

 

- Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

- The justification of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism.

- There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween.

- Many things that are true feel like a cheat ....

-  .... When times were easy, the parson nearly destroyed the Apothecary, but when the going grew tough, he was willing to throw aside his every belief if it would save his daughters.

- Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully. And it took the lives of .......

- There are worse things than being invisible.

- It is now or never.

- How can both be true ?  Because humans are complicated beasts ... How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch ? How can a prince be a murderer and a saviour ? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? .........

- You do not write your life with words ..... You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.