[you're focusing hard on the book your mother has been reading to you for some time. you've decided you want to try reading on your own, but there are still words that are difficult, meanings that you don't understand. your mother sits near by and supervises, letting you know you can always ask if you need the help. you try your best to not need it, but inevitably, you have to in order to continue the story.
that is, until the story ends.
you reach the last page and you find yourself at a loss, bereft. there isn't anything else.
you look to your mother for an answer, asking if that's all. asking if there isn't anymore.
she says there's not anything else. the story is over.
you've never felt as alone as that moment you read that last word on the last page.
your mother shuts the book so that the front cover is facing you. she then opens the book again and tells you, "Read it again."
you're confused. why would you need to read it again? you already know the story?
your mother smiles like she knows a secret and insists again, "Read it again."
so, you begin to read it again.
you discover the story is very different than you remember when you first read it.]
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A 독자(Reader)'s Beginning
that is, until the story ends.
you reach the last page and you find yourself at a loss, bereft. there isn't anything else.
you look to your mother for an answer, asking if that's all. asking if there isn't anymore.
she says there's not anything else. the story is over.
you've never felt as alone as that moment you read that last word on the last page.
your mother shuts the book so that the front cover is facing you. she then opens the book again and tells you, "Read it again."
you're confused. why would you need to read it again? you already know the story?
your mother smiles like she knows a secret and insists again, "Read it again."
so, you begin to read it again.
you discover the story is very different than you remember when you first read it.]