As the memory of the terrible fratricidal war was fading into history books, I met a young girl who had just come through the miserable scene. The enemy's military boots trampled on the morning garden of the girl with dewy plantain lilies and took away her most precious things. Her father, her mother's dream, the fine light of the plantain lily, and a wonderful sense of relaxation in the sunshine.... When I entered a girls' high school, I met a poetic word that had somewhat shocked my conscious world. As the Korean teacher ...
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As the memory of the terrible fratricidal war was fading into history books, I met a young girl who had just come through the miserable scene. The enemy's military boots trampled on the morning garden of the girl with dewy plantain lilies and took away her most precious things. Her father, her mother's dream, the fine light of the plantain lily, and a wonderful sense of relaxation in the sunshine.... When I entered a girls' high school, I met a poetic word that had somewhat shocked my conscious world. As the Korean teacher with clear eyes recited this verse, "The sad green will be thick on the long hill of the ferry, which is kept in my heart," I wondered why the green was sad. But when the girl was nine years old, she had already been conscious of the green of plantain lily as a sad color. Even though she is now at the age of walking towards twilight, she still remains a girl with a sad glow of debris embedded in her. As a person who has felt and enjoyed nature and things as they are, I just want to hug the girl, feeling sorry for her. Even though the wounds she received in the whirlpool of history were painful, she ploughed through the scars and brilliantly made them into moving and vivid works. I admire the writer's spirit she displayed. In English, the writer is also called 'author', which means God and Creator. It wouldn't be a chance title. I could feel that writer Oh Kyung-Ja is an 'author' who creates love and compassion by inspiring sympathy in people's minds.
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