2019-11-26

Beartown Chapter 42

问题

1. In your opinion, what gives Maya the idea that fight darkness with bigger darkness? 

Darkness means injustice. She was treated unfairly in Beartown.

2. How can Kira’s colleague be so sober? 

She realized that Kira couldn’t tell the difference between vengeance and justice,though Kira was a professional lawyer.

3. Maya is surprised by how easily she can start to lie to her best friend, Ana,and keep secrets from her. How do each character’s secrets affect his or her relationship with loved ones?

The secrets wouldn’t affect their relationship. They were closer than ever.

4. Which side is Tails on?

Tail was on Peter’s family side.

5. Who do you think is the one who pulls the trigger at the beginning of the article?

It must be Maya.

在本章中，面对着来自Beartown各方面人物的不公平对待，Maya开始思考用自己的办法进行复仇，这是一个仅有15岁的小姑娘呀。我想起一个词resilience来形容她的妈妈Kira和她。上一次看到这个词，是在读米歇尔奥巴马的自传‘Becoming‘时，奥巴马夫人提到的。坚强的人都需要这种复原力。