A Certain Adult
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• Original title : 어떤 어른
• Price : 18,000KRW
• Product Dimensions :
130x205, 328pages
• Publication Date : 2024-11-13
• ISBN : 9791169813419
Book Information & Summary
written by Kim So Young
The writer, Kim So Young, who met 200,000 readers with “The World called Children,” has published a new essay, “A Certain Adult,” in four years since her latest book. If her previous work was about calling out the existence of children as individuals with their own unique world, fellow citizens, and the next generation, her new book, “A Certain Adult,” is a book that examines the place of adults living with children in the same era and explores the role of adults in helping children grow into another adult.
People who discover and recognize children anew through “The World named Children” naturally ask themselves, “Then, what kind of adult should I become?” In the face of this question, the writer says that children are looking at adults, learning from them, realizing things, and changing, rather than filling in the blank with “some.” When we think about the relationship between children and adults, we often imagine a scene in which an adult watches a small, weak, and immature child, but the child is also watching the adult. Children learn what the world is like by watching adults, and they grow day by day by thinking about how to live. The writer says that any adult can be a “certain kind of adult” if they can remember and imagine this process. That is because children need a variety of adults.
This book features various moments in which children and adults look at each other, talk to each other, and pass by each other in everyday places, such as the writer’s workplace, the reading classroom, as well as in public spaces, such as laundries, neighborhood restaurants, and walking trails, as well as in schools, libraries, and museums. We can also see adults who are the face of law, institutions, history, and culture, and children growing up to become the adults of tomorrow within their boundaries. Through these vivid anecdotes written from the perspective of children, readers can imagine what adults should be like in the eyes of children. If children are the people who will live in the future, adults are the ones who show the outlines of that future. Our future will change depending on what kinds of adults we choose to become.
The writer, Kim So Young, who met 200,000 readers with “The World called Children,” has published a new essay, “A Certain Adult,” in four years since her latest book. If her previous work was about calling out the existence of children as individuals with their own unique world, fellow citizens, and the next generation, her new book, “A Certain Adult,” is a book that examines the place of adults living with children in the same era and explores the role of adults in helping children grow into another adult.
People who discover and recognize children anew through “The World named Children” naturally ask themselves, “Then, what kind of adult should I become?” In the face of this question, the writer says that children are looking at adults, learning from them, realizing things, and changing, rather than filling in the blank with “some.” When we think about the relationship between children and adults, we often imagine a scene in which an adult watches a small, weak, and immature child, but the child is also watching the adult. Children learn what the world is like by watching adults, and they grow day by day by thinking about how to live. The writer says that any adult can be a “certain kind of adult” if they can remember and imagine this process. That is because children need a variety of adults.
This book features various moments in which children and adults look at each other, talk to each other, and pass by each other in everyday places, such as the writer’s workplace, the reading classroom, as well as in public spaces, such as laundries, neighborhood restaurants, and walking trails, as well as in schools, libraries, and museums. We can also see adults who are the face of law, institutions, history, and culture, and children growing up to become the adults of tomorrow within their boundaries. Through these vivid anecdotes written from the perspective of children, readers can imagine what adults should be like in the eyes of children. If children are the people who will live in the future, adults are the ones who show the outlines of that future. Our future will change depending on what kinds of adults we choose to become.