Moriguchi also taught them that criminals should be treated and portrayed as nobodies instead of sensasilising their crimes and character in the media. As she gave her lecture, she called the murderers person A and person B, knowing that everyone will figure who she was referring to. The depiction of the classroom-society and how it functions also seems to have enough elements of truth to it. Alur Confessions semakin mendebarkan di setiap halaman. Pengakuan Moriguchi di depan kelas bagaikan bola salju yang bergulir semakin besar dan melindas segala sesuatu yang dilaluinya. Suasana di kelas berubah total sejak peristiwa itu. Hanya masalah waktu sebelum pembunuhan lain terjadi. Equally, the ending throws a complete misdirection, making you question all that you’ve just read. Which of the above affects the actions of a minor most? Likewise, Moriguchi’s motive is justified, to a degree, but how far is too far?

I really enjoyed this story of revenge by Japanese writer Kanae Minato and found myself intrigued by the happenings in this Japanese school. On the one hand, they should be justly punished by Moriguchi. However, the criminal system is set up for a reason, even if they’ll be trialled as minors, avoiding a harsher sentence. Celebrity Killings the only issue was the repetitive events and repetitive naaration which was okay at first but then I really started to get bored reading about them again and again. Kudos, Madam Minato, for such a thought-provoking novel. Full of the criminal element and personal angst, I can see why you received such literary praise. The sections move the story forward, even as each character in turn also revisits the past, offering their own account of some of the events that look very different to some of these eyes.

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HER PUPILS KILLED HER DAUGHTER. NOW, SHE WILL HAVE HER REVENGE. After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge. Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you’ll never see coming, Confessions explores the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in danger. You’ll never look at a classroom the same way again. Confessions by Kanae Minato – eBook Details i liked it, although i found it dragging sometimes, despite how unadorned the prose is. sometime i felt it was taking too long to get to the conclusion, and would have worked better at a faster pace considering the genre. i did really enjoy the structure - a sort of nest of confessions, with an increasingly paranoid tone, and i appreciated the way that the motivations for seemingly inexcusable actions are revealed and you begin to be able to sympathize and understand the characters a little better, but then we're off into another viewpoint and all the good intentions or misguided reasons have already been tainted and transformed into new violent acts and it's just too late for anyone to be saved.

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Hikikomori is another theme analysts discussed. In the novel, Naoki is considered a hikikomori by both his mother and sister because of his severe reclusion from the outside world and his family. It is attributed to his belief that he might have contracted AIDS, and he stays away from everyone to keep the spread diminished. There are references to both Dostoyevsky and Camus, both of whom wrote novels about the deeper recesses of human behaviour. Yet it’s in Minato’s inscription that the fictional writing becomes real and tormented. Whereas here predecessors now feel outdated and long-winded, she instead goes straight to the heart of the matter. There’s Nothing Crueller Than Children Confessions is an amazing Japanese novel and definitely deserves the four stars; on my grading scale, I give it an A- and will definitely recommend it to anyone who needs a dose of revenge in his/her life! :) It’s also worth noting that Confessions is translated by the superb Stephen Snyder, who notably did the same for Natsuo Kirino’s Out. What’s Justice Enough? It’s also worth noting that Kanae Minato was a home economics teacher at the time she wrote this debut book. Her experiences around children are clearly on show here. She captures the true nature of a classroom, and the control a commanding figure, such as a teacher, has on their young lives.