a kind of childhood is a 2002 bangladeshi drama film directed by tareque masud and catherine masud .

the film was awarded the jury prize at international video festival of india in 2003 .

a kind of childhood

i’ll say it again , because the words thrill me to my very soul : we must protect the right of all children to have a hallelujah kind of childhood .
a kind of childhood - 52 mins , 2002 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud ; prod : audiovision / xingu films ( uk ) a documentary on lives & struggles of working children followed over 6 years .
bev said it best , “because the heart has a long memory for pain , we must take care , when we are making plans for programs…that the element of joy exists…we must protect the right of all children to have a hallelujah kind of childhood . ”
this is a film which challenges our notions of child labor . it peeks into a world where the concept of childhood as we know it has no meaning , where children support their parents , and where work is just another part of growing up . this is dhaka , bangladesh . following several children over a period of six years , a kind of childhood is an attempt to focus on the realities of child labor , with real children , their struggles and dreams . for more information , go to urltoken
childhood cut short : sexual and gender - based violence against migrant and r . . .
that means that we can’t settle for children being “fine” in our programs . it can’t be enough that they are still in the building with us and still breathing when dad comes to pick up . we must protect the right of all children to have a hallelujah kind of childhood .
i have been thinking , thinking and thinking a lot about what i want to do . and i really want to realise my childhood dream , to do a kind of mtv music awards show . with a lot going on . i can’t tell so much about it , but it will be colourful and happy , and a bit sassy / sexy .
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after hearing of bev bos’s passing earlier this year , i spent a couple of days reviewing and reflecting on her writing . a 1995 article called
joy in early childhood programs
particularly spoke to me , as it has so often in the last 20 years . bev wrote that , sadly , joy is not often a consideration for people who are talking about and planning programs and experiences for young children . she reminded us that “because learning always involves feelings , we must protect the right of all children to have a hallelujah kind of childhood . ”
idris lost his first job at the age of nine . after the us congress moved to protect children’s rights by banning imports of garments produced by children , idris and tens of thousands of other children were forced onto the street . for six long years idris struggled to stay to school , while harsh economic realities kept pushing him back to his working life . turning traditional arguments about childhood and child labour on their head , a kind of childhood looks at the complexities of urban life and the choices children must make .
the song is about having a dream and realising it no matter what kind of struggle you may meet along the way . i really hope that people can recognise themselves in my song .
some 92 % of children have a digital footprint by the age of two , and now , most adults believe digital technology and the internet are ruining childhood , according to havas worldwide ' s
new dynamics of family
report .
image : to investigate causes of childhood community - acquired pneumonia - - the leading cause of hospitalizations in us children - - university of utah health sciences collaborated with the centers for disease control and . . . view more
hallelujah childhoods don’t come from structure , rules or cute pinterest crafts . they come from relationships . protecting the right to a hallelujah kind of childhood demands that we go further than the “liking kids” that got our foot in the door . we have to know , trust and accept every single child in our care . and they need to know it .
' it takes a lot of bravery to be kind , ' says kids ' author kate dicamillo dicamillo says raymie nightingale , the 10 - year - old protagonist at the heart of her latest novel , is a lot like she was as a child :
very introverted , watching , worrying , wondering , but also hopeful .
noah colbert is kind of an expert on clinical trials . he ' s participated in many over the 12 years of his life . he admits he likes the gift cards he gets in return — he used a recent payment to buy a laptop so he could play fortnite during his daily lung therapy — but he also likes the idea of . . .
this photo provided by the children’s hospital of philadelphia , taken in may 2017 , shows dr . stephan grupp who led a key study of a newly approved treatment for childhood leukemia . opening a new era in cancer care , the food and drug administration ( fda ) approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients ' own blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy cancer .
* digital media is only a small part of the study ; * it sounds like they got the answer they set out to get by asking leading questions ; * they asked if it was harming family life ( which parents themselves could fix ) as opposed to “ruining childhood” ; and * in an opinion study it makes no sense to headline a story that digital media is ruining childhood ; at best you can say that parents feel that it’s having a negative effect .
novartis plans to file for fda approval of kymriah for a type of non - hodgkin lymphoma that affects adults later this year .
shey ( the conversation ) - 10 mins , 1993 dir : tareque masud & shameem akhter ; production : audiovision a short film about a strained reunion between a man and a woman .
matir moina ( the clay bird ) - 98 mins , 2002 dir : tareque masud ; producer : catherine masud ; production : audiovision / mk2 ( fr ) a feature film based on the director’s childhood in a madrassa in rural east pakistan during the turbulent 60’s .
the food and drug administration on wednesday approved a groundbreaking cancer treatment for childhood leukemia that uses patients’ own genetically altered immune cells to fight the disease . it is the first gene therapy to be allowed in the united states – a “historic” approval , the agency said .
the fda action was expected after a panel of outside advisers this summer recommended approval in enthusiastic terms . in a pivotal study of more than five dozen patients , researchers reported , more than 80 percent of those who got the therapy went into remission . a year later , about two - thirds of the patients had not relapsed .
twenty - one people are receiving rabies exposure treatment after they came into contact with a baby raccoon that was brought into the home of a woman in south weld county , according to a news release monday .
and beverly , the toughest of all nuts , walks into this terrifying room and takes hold of this woman ' s hand . talk about haunted . i ' m still haunted by that moment because that ' s always the kid that i wanted to be and i wasn ' t . i wasn ' t brave enough to be that way . . . . it takes a lot of bravery to be kind .
when newbery award - winning author kate dicamillo talks to kids about how she became a writer , she sometimes shows them a photo of her own family .
one in three adults say technology is destroying family life , and half believe that allowing a child unrestricted access to the internet is a form of child abuse .
my career started when i was about 10 years old . i started as a ballet dancers at the opera . i did all kind off shows like the nutcracker and the swan lake . then i got tired of ballet ( my mom was so sad ) , and i figured out that my dream was to become a hip hop dancer . i realized that after watching to many britney spears and missy elliot music videos : d . in worked as a professional hip hop dancer from the age of 14 - 18 .
this undated image made available by novartis on wednesday , aug . 31 , 2017 shows an iv bag of their drug kymriah . on wednesday , the food and drug administration approved this first treatment that genetically engineers patients ' own blood cells to seek and destroy childhood leukemia .
the food and drug administration on wednesday approved a groundbreaking cancer treatment for childhood leukemia that uses patients ' genetically altered immune cells to fight the disease . it is the first gene therapy to be cleared in the united states — a “historic” action , the agency said — and one with major ramifications for patients with cancer as well as other diseases .
worries over digital technology are but one component in a more generalized concern about the changing nature of home lives . two - thirds of adults say that today’s children aren’t given enough of a chance to just be kids , and half believe parents are sharing too much about their children on social media .
with the help of a $ 4 . 3 million contract with the colorado department of human services , rocky mountain human services ( rmhs ) launched its momentum program sunday to help people transition out of mental health facilities and into the community .
novartis executives said in a call with reporters that the therapy would cost $ 475 , 000 per treatment and that the company expects to have 20 certified medical centers ready within a month for patients to begin undergoing treatment . the company will introduce a pricing model based on how well the drug works ; a patient will not be charged for the therapy if it doesn’t show signs of working within a month .
the results help define the role of viruses as major players in pediatric pneumonia and shows a need for new therapies that can reduce the severity of viral pneumonia ,
says chris stockmann , co - investigator and senior research analyst at the university of utah .
great headline , which borders on clickbait since the study ' s content , as represented in your piece , has kids ' digital consumption as a small part of a bigger global picture of attitudes towards many aspects of home life and society . tossing in a paragraph as explosive as
one in three adults say technology is destroying family life , and half believe that allowing a child unrestricted access to the internet is a form of child abuse
and not divulging more ( such as did the question bait them with the term
child abuse
thus revealing the study ' s bias ? ) is poor journalism at best .
in their call with reporters on wednesday , novartis executives said they expect to have 20 certified medical centers ready within a month and 32 by the end of the year . they said the company is collaborating with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to develop a pricing model based on how well the drug works ; a patient will not be charged for the therapy if it doesn’t show signs of working within a month .
runway - 90 mins , 2010 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud ; production : audiovision a feature film about a boy’s descent into radical islam .
the study raises a lot of questions but also provides a lot of answers ,
says pavia .
to continue to lower the incidence of pneumonia , we need to find ways to prevent viral causes . we also need to develop better diagnostic tests so that we can accurately target treatment and avoid antibiotic overuse , and speed recovery .
this photo provided by the children’s hospital of philadelphia , taken in may 2017 , shows emily whitehead five years after she became the first pediatric patient in the world to receive an experimental therapy at the hospital that has put her leukemia into long - term remission . opening a new era in cancer care , the food and drug administration ( fda ) approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients ' own blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy childhood leukemia .
muktir gaan ( song of freedom ) - 78 mins , 1995 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud ; production : audiovision feature length documentary film about a troupe of traveling musicians during the bangladesh liberation war ‘71 .
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over the last three decades , introduction of haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines has significantly lowered the incidence of bacterial pneumonia in children ,
says co - investigator andrew pavia , m . d . , chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at university of utah school of medicine .
our results are consistent with previous findings , and support continuing immunization efforts to maintain the reduction in bacterial pneumonia .
furthermore , a majority of men , compared with just more than a third of women , believe boys and girls should be raised according to their gender , with separate toys and clothing . the countries most supportive of rigid gender roles for children were ukraine , indonesia and china , while taiwan , portugal , italy and india were most apt to support gender - neutral upbringings .
that’s why we created the kindercare education legacy awards . this award reflects our belief that great teachers truly do leave a legacy for the children they care for . each year , our very best early childhood and school - age educators are named kindercare education legacy award winners and receive a cash prize of $ 10 , 000 and an all - expense paid trip to the national support center in portland , oregon . to date , 65 teachers have earned the award , and we are committed to growing that list each year .
the concept of family has expanded in recent years . two in three men ( 62 % ) and nearly three - quarters of women ( 73 % ) say : “friends can be as much ‘family’ as blood relatives . ” and nearly a third consider their pets to be part of the family .
the agency ' s prosumer report examines a number of themes underpinning structural shifts within the modern family , changing family relationships , parenting in the digital age , and the impact of children on consumption habits among those living in 20 countries .
novartis told reporters the treatment would cost $ 475 , 000 ; that makes it one of the most expensive of the new , high - priced oncology therapies . critics of high drug prices immediately expressed displeasure , noting that the federal government has spent millions of dollars on basic research paving the way for the approach . a group called patients for affordable drugs called the cost “excessive . ”
to investigate the specific causes and prevalence of childhood cap , the centers for disease control and prevention ( cdc ) led the etiology of pneumonia in the community ( epic ) study in collaboration with institutions including university of utah health sciences . they report that among children diagnosed with pneumonia , viral infections were much more common than bacterial infections ( 73 vs . 15 percent ) , and respiratory syncytial virus ( rsv ) was the most commonly detected pathogen . the results , which could inform improved strategies for prevention and treatment , were published in
ontorjatra - 85 mins , 2006 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud ; production : audiovision / maasranga a feature length telefilm on a mother - son return journey to bangladesh .
“we’re entering a new frontier in medical innovation with the ability to reprogram a patient’s own cells to attack a deadly cancer , ” fda commissioner scott gottlieb said in a statement . “new technologies such as gene and cell therapies hold out the potential to transform medicine and create an inflection point in our ability to treat and even cure many intractable illnesses . ”
“we’re entering a new frontier in medical innovation with the ability to reprogram a patient’s own cells to attack a deadly cancer , ” fda commissioner scott gottlieb said . “new technologies such as gene and cell therapies hold out the potential to transform medicine” and cure intractable illnesses . he said companies are pursuing hundreds of experimental treatments involving gene therapy products .
shonar beri ( chains of gold ) - 25 mins , 1987 dir : tareque masud ; production : documentum documentary on the oppressed condition of bangladeshi women .
kansater pothey ( the road to kansat ) - 40 mins , 2008 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud ; production : audiovision a documentary on a successful people’s movement for electricity .
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[ she ' s ] haunted by the beauty of the world . there ' s a moment in the book where . . . she goes to read to somebody in a nursing home and the floor of the nursing home has been polished . . . so it looks like a lake and it ' s just beautiful and the light is hitting it and raymie has this feeling that she ' s going to understand everything , everything ' s going to make sense . and i had that feeling all the time when i was a kid . so she ' s haunted by that feeling of almost tangible understanding and beauty in the world .
narir kotha ( women & war ) - 25 mins , 2000 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud ; production : audiovsion documentary on experiences of women survivors of war .
the second most commonly detected pathogen among children with pneumonia was rhinovirus , the predominant cause of the common cold . interestingly , the pathogen was also found in a large percentage of matched
controls
who had no symptoms ( 22 percent with pneumonia vs . 17 percent without ) . one interpretation is that rhinovirus infections do not commonly lead to pneumonia . another is that some types of rhinoviruses cause a runny nose while others cause severe pneumonia that leads to hospitalization .
it ' s also important to understand how causes of pneumonia have changed so we can better approach the illness , which still leads to high rates of hospitalization among children .
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the u . s . environmental protection agency announced a new funding strategy to expedite the cleanup of pueblo ' s smelter superfund site which will significantly reduce residential exposure to lead and other heavy metals .
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this work was carried out by investigators at university of utah health sciences , the centers for disease control and prevention , vanderbilt university school of medicine , le bonheur children ' s hospital , university of tennessee health science center , northwestern university feinberg school of medicine , and st . jude children ' s research hospital , and was supported by the centers for disease control and prevention .
unlike traditional gene therapy , the new treatment doesn’t replace disease - causing genes with healthy ones . instead , in a complicated process developed at the university of pennsylvania , white blood cells called t cells are extracted from the patient and sent to a manufacturing center to be modified to include a new gene that directs the t cells to target and kill leukemia cells . those t cells then are infused back into the patient .
when i sat down to write the book i thought it was just going to be a funny thing about an inept child , i . e . me / raymie being in a beauty contest — a place she should not be . and then these characters that i did not anticipate , louisiana and beverly , showed up almost immediately .
the decision clears the novartis drug , called kymriah , for treatment with children and young adults whose illness doesn’t respond to traditional approaches . that group numbers only 600 or so patients a year in this country . but the customized treatment is also being tested for a range of diseases from non - hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma to solid tumors , and its approval signals a new chapter in treating cancer by mobilizing the body’s own immune system .
in a pivotal study of five dozen patients , the drug induced remission in more than 80 percent . but some patients relapsed , and doctors are still monitoring the rest to see how long the drug’s effect will last .
all of our kindercare education legacy award winners are masterful teachers who have an extraordinary ability to connect and communicate with children and families . every single one of these educators brings a heartfelt passion and sense of purpose to their classrooms . these educators are real superheroes , role models , and mentors within the communities in which they teach . their passion inspires children to become curious learners for life—and that’s what our legacy is all about .
as a kid , dicamillo always wondered what she might have done differently — a question shared by the young protagonist in her new book , raymie nightingale . like dicamillo , raymie grows up in central florida in the 1970s . and 10 - year - old raymie is also struggling with the pain and loss of abandonment . she ' s convinced that if she can win the title of little miss central florida , she ' ll be able to reunite their family .
this longing for old times also influences larger societal trends . eight in 10 global respondents say they worry about the modern world’s loss of respect for elders . more people feel that the legalization of same - sex marriage is bad for society vs . those that feel it ' s a good thing ( 32 % vs . 27 % ) .
six in 10 respondents ( 65 % of men and 56 % of women ) said that people who are single all their lives ( no long - term romantic relationship , no children ) are missing out on an important part of life . a majority ( 51 % ) agreed that children who are raised by their biological mother and father have an advantage over children who are not , while just 21 % disagreed . ( the remainder were neutral . )
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whether they are related by blood or through friendship , people say their family brings them more joy than anguish . despite the general love fest , around a quarter of respondents ( 26 % ) admit there’s too much drama in their families . and 1 in 5 millennials would actually go back in time and be born into a different family if given the option .
the decision gave the green light to the novartis drug kymriah for children and young adults whose leukemia doesn ' t respond to traditional approaches . that group numbers only 600 or so patients a year in this country . but the one - time , customized treatment is also being tested for a range of diseases from non - hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma to solid tumors .
my mom love eurovision so i have seen a lot with her . i really loved euphoria that was an amazing song . and of course i saw when alexander rybak won the whole thing , so surreal . and abba is just epic !
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because of the risks involved , the fda is requiring that hospitals and medical staff using kymriah be specially trained .
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that said , millennials overwhelmingly support most liberal issues . as such , 34 % of millennials believe same - sex unions are helping society , versus 19 % of baby boomers . and there ' s an overall positive shift on topics such as the rise in interracial marriage , international adoptions , ivf and other “artificial” means of conception and homeschooling .
unlike some experimental gene approaches , the novartis treatment , called car t - cell therapy , doesn ' t replace disease - causing genes with healthy ones . instead , in a complicated and personalized process , white blood cells called t cells are extracted from the patient and sent to a manufacturing center to be altered to include a new gene that directs the t cells to target and kill leukemia cells . those t cells , an important part of the immune system , then are infused back into the patient .
heather is the education coordinator for a non profit child care agency in lafayette , indiana . she has worked with children and families for over 25 years . in 2015 , she was recognized as one of exchange press ' s promising emerging leaders .
i love crazy outfits and a lot of dancers on stage . so when i decided to do this i saw this is an amazing opportunity to finally realise my stage / performance dream . and to work with so professional people on national television .
there is a desire to return to yesteryear , with many so - called traditional rules . nearly half the males surveyed ( 46 % , as compared with 37 % of women ) believe children would be better off if their mothers didn’t work outside the home . and 4 in 10 males believe families work best when the father is the “provider , ” while only a quarter disagree .
i think that this is an amazing opportunity in every way . at home you can make your fan base bigger because a lot of my fans are younger so it would be amazing to show what i can do to an older crowd as well .
salt lake city - with the chill of winter comes a spike in community - acquired pneumonia ( cap ) , which spreads more easily as people retreat indoors and come into close contact . the lung infection triggers persistent coughing , chest pain , fever , and difficulty breathing , and is particularly hard on the very young and the very old . in fact , pneumonia is the leading cause of hospitalization among u . s . children , with estimated medical costs of $ 1 billion annually .
of the patients in the united states who are eligible for kymriah , most are children who have insurance coverage through their parents’ insurance , medicaid or the federal children’s health insurance program . novartis has set up a patient - assistance program that can be used to help families who lack insurance or have coverage that falls short for this treatment . it also has a program to assist with travel expenses .
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of the 600 patients in the united states who are eligible for kymriah , most are children who have insurance coverage through their parents’ insurance , medicaid or the federal children’s health insurance program . novartis has set up a patient - assistance program that can be used to help families who lack insurance or have coverage that falls short for this treatment . it also has a program to assist with travel expenses .
“nothing is more important than family . but that word has very different meanings for different people , ” said havas worldwide and havas creative group global ceo andrew benett . “to contribute to consumers’ lives in a meaningful way , brands must first understand the realities of family relationships and the complexities of parenting in today’s digital environments . those are the insights we’ll be sharing with our clients . ”
the treatment is approved for patients up to 25 years of age with b - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia that doesn’t respond to treatment or that returns after initial treatment – as happens in up to 20 percent of patients , according to the fda .
carl june , the university of pennsylvania professor who led the treatment ' s development , said he believes it will be a game - changer not just for children with leukemia but potentially for all cancer patients . mouse experiments indicate that an array of cancers respond to the therapy , he said , though the big question is : “how long will this take to come about for humans ? ”
nirapotter namey ( in the name of safety ) - 25 mins , 1999 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud ; production : audiovision / tve ( uk ) documentary on human rights abuses of ‘safe custody’ . shishu kantha ( voices of children ) - 30 mins , 1997 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud ; production : audiovision / unicef documentary on working children in bangladesh .
kevin curran , a pediatric oncologist at memorial sloan kettering cancer center in new york , called the new treatment “exciting for pediatric oncology” and said he hoped it would make bone marrow transplants obsolete . johns hopkins oncologist elizabeth jaffee , president - elect of the american association for cancer research , called the medication a “major advance that is going to help kids , ” who often are the last to benefit from cancer breakthroughs .
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because of the risks involved in using the cancer drug , the fda is limiting its distribution to specially trained hospitals and medical staff .
respondents in the u . s . and the uk were the most divided , with each option being selected by around half of respondents .
the therapy ' s approval signals a new chapter in treating cancer by mobilizing the body ' s own immune system and by using modified genes to fight disease .
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unison - 3 mins , 1992 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud an animated film about the unity of mankind , portrayed through religious symbols .
emily whitehead , shown with her parents , thomas and kari whitehead , was the first child treated with a new type of cancer therapy that uses the patient ' s own genetically modified cells to fight cancer . the food and drug administration approved the therapy on wednesday . ( sean simmers for the washington post )
naroshundor ( the barbershop ) - 15 mins , 2009 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud ; production : audiovision / rmmru a short political thriller set in 1971 .
the treatment can cause serious side effects including high fevers , plummeting blood pressure and neurological problems . often , those complications can be successfully treated with a drug called tocilizumab .
i have always told my mom that i wanted to be an artist . i will never forget the first time i stood and stage . it’s definitely like a drug .
the treatment , which is expected to be costly , can cause serious side effects including high fevers and neurological problems . a drug called tocilizumab can often successfully treat those complications .
there is also a general sense that families simply don’t enjoy as much downtime together anymore : nearly 7 in 10 parents surveyed said they wish their families ate together more often .
dicamillo was always getting sick as a child , and when she was 6 years old , her family moved from philadelphia to florida in hopes that it would help her get healthy .
more than a dozen bacterial and viral pathogens were found in children of all ages , 21 percent of whom required intensive care . rsv was found the most frequently , and was more common in children under age 5 than in older children ( 37 vs . 8 percent ) , as was adenovirus ( 15 vs . 3 percent ) and human metapneumovirus ( 15 vs . 8 percent ) . in children between ages 5 and 18 , the most common pathogen was the bacteria mycoplasma pneumonia , which was detected more frequently than in younger children ( 19 vs . 3 percent ) . half of the children hospitalized with pneumonia were age 2 or younger , demonstrating that the very youngest carry the largest burden .
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pavia cautions that because samples came from just three hospitals , reported trends may not accurately reflect the u . s . population . further , rates of bacterial infection may be underrepresented since bacterial diagnostic tests are less sensitive than those for viruses . the latter may partially explain why no pathogens were detected in 19 percent of children diagnosed with pneumonia .
muktir kotha ( words of freedom ) - 82 mins , 1999 dir : tareque masud & catherine masud ; production : audiovision oral history documentary on ordinary people’s participation in ’71 war .
california - based kite pharma , which is being acquired by gilead sciences , also has applied for fda approval for use of its own car t - cell therapy in lymphoma patients .
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esc + plus has talked to alexandra joner , finalist of the norwegian national selection for eurovision 2015 “melodi grand prix” . alexandra will sing “cinderella” in the final set on march 14 .
i don ' t want to give a spoiler alert about something that happens in the book but it wasn ' t until after i finished the book that i . . . [ realized ] that i was , as a kid , stronger than i thought i was . . . . raymie does something that surprises herself and surprised me and made me realize . . . you ' re stronger than you think you are .
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adam surot ( the inner strength ) - 54 mins , 1989 dir : tareque masud ; production : documentum documentary on the life and art of the bangladeshi painter s . m . sultan .
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i don ' t know what my mother was thinking , but she entered me in a little miss contest — little miss orange blossom , i think it was . and i don ' t remember anything about that except i have one flash - bulb memory of standing on the stage and thinking : this is not where i should be . raymie is very much like the child that i was — very introverted , watching , worrying , wondering , but also hopeful .
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but my mom always knew that i really wanted to sing , so she saw the opportunity when she saw that tv norge was holding an audition for this new talent show called “finding the new sandy and danny” ( grease ) . so i went to the audition very nervous cause i’ve never singed in front of anybody . this audition made me realize that this is what i want to do . then i gave out my first single # sunrise in 2012 and it was a huge hit .
“the new dynamics of family” draws on findings from an online survey of 6 , 767 men and women ages 18 + in 20 countries : australia , brazil , china , colombia , the czech republic , ecuador , france , india , indonesia , italy , japan , mexico , portugal , singapore , south africa , taiwan , thailand , ukraine , the united kingdom , and the united states . the study was created by havas worldwide and fielded by market probe international in october 2014 .
moving forward , chief executive joe jimenez said , the company plans to price the drug differently depending on which specific disease it is treating . if kymriah is later approved for another type of cancer in which it is less effective , the price could theoretically be lower .
thank you for all the love and support . i will do my best to make you all proud if i ever get to eurovision . i hope that you all love “cinderella” as much as i do ! i will do my best to impress all of you !
the novartis therapy is approved for patients who are up to 25 years old and have b - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia that doesn ' t respond to treatment or that returns after initial therapy — as happens in up to 20 percent of patients , according to the fda .
moving forward , novartis chief executive joe jimenez said , the company plans to price the drug differently depending on which specific disease it is treating . if kymriah is later approved for another type of cancer in which it is less effective , for example , the price could theoretically be lower .
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in this july 9 , 2015 , photo , provided by novartis pharmaceuticals corp . , human t cells belonging to cancer patients arrive at novartis pharmaceuticals corp . ' s morris plains , n . j . , facility . the food and drug administration ( fda ) approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients’ own blood cells into an army of leukemia - fighting assassins . manufacturer novartis will create those turbocharged cells in this facility and ship them back to hospitals to infuse into patients .
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a boy called h ( 少年ｈ ) is a 2013 japanese war drama film directed by yasuo furuhata .

it is based on the book by kappa senoh , translated into english by john bester .

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bryan aubrey , critical essay on a boy called h : a childhood in wartime japan , in nonfiction classics for students , gale , 2003 .
catherine dybiec holm , critical essay on a boy called h : a childhood in wartime japan , in nonfiction classics for students , gale , 2003 .
review of a boy called h , in publishers weekly , vol . 247 , no . 7 , february 14 , 2000 , p . 182 .
rochman , hazel , review of a boy called h , in booklist , vol . 96 , no . 12 , february 15 , 2000 , p . 1084 .
in the following review , noguchi praises a boy called h for its
gradual development of understanding on the part of the narrator
but questions the accuracy of the story .
levine , steven i . , review of a boy called h , in library journal , vol . 125 , no . 6 , april 1 , 2000 , p . 113 .
this study guide consists of approximately 126 pages of chapter summaries , quotes , character analysis , themes , and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of a boy called h .
… any astute reader should see a boy called h as a literary work . each chapter is neatly constructed to make a single point and could stand alone as a short story , complete with beginning , middle and end .
haruo ota is one of h ' s classmates and the head boy . haruo is known as
blackpatch
because of a birthmark on his head . h calls him
donchan .
haruo lends h a book called the three treasures from his father ' s collection .
told from the viewpoint of the father morio ( yutaka mizutani ) ,
a boy called h
follows a young boy named hajime senoh , nicknamed
h
. his father , morio runs a tailor shop . with the onset of world war ii , their family must endure difficult times . nevertheless , h is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice .
beautiful movie . a family full of virtues that try to raise a boy in troubled times .
the question , coming from a stranger in the street , was a shock to the boy .
told from the viewpoint of the father morio ,
a boy called h
follows a young boy named hajime senoh , nicknamed
h
. his father , morio runs a tailor shop . with the onset of world war ii , their family must endure difficult times . nevertheless , h is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice . ~ ~ based on the autobiographical novel
shonen h
by kappa senoh .
in the fourth grade , h experiences another side to the war besides the patriotism that is touted by the government and , increasingly , by the press . girly boy , a young man in the community that h is friendly with , gets his call - up papers . three days after girly boy leaves , the military police come to kobe looking for him ; apparently girly boy has deserted . when h and some friends are playing , h discovers girly boy in an old shack . horrified , h realizes that girly boy hanged himself to avoid serving in the war .
told from the viewpoint of the father morio ( yutaka mizutani ) ,
a boy called h
follows a young boy named hajime senoh , nicknamed
h
. his father , morio runs a tailor shop . with the onset of world war ii , their family must endure difficult times . nevertheless , h is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice . based on the autobiographical novel
shonen h
by kappa senoh ( published by kodansha , july 9 , 1999 ) .
senoh kappa ' s a boy called h , the english translation of shônen h , is the story of a bright , curious boy growing up in an unconventional family in kobe during japan ' s
15 - year war .
it is a tale of loss of innocence , as the boy ' s penchant for questioning everything is subject to the tightening constraints of the social , educational and political systems of a country increasingly entrenched in war and insistent that its entire population devote itself to ultimate victory .
rising sun : the decline and fall of the japanese empire , 1936 - 1945 ( 1970 ) , by john toland , is a history of japan and its wars during the years covered by a boy called h . toland views the events largely from the japanese perspective .
siegenthaler , peter , review of a boy called h , in persimmon : asian literature , arts , and culture , vol . 1 , no . 2 , summer 2000 . available on the internet at urltoken ( last accessed december 23 , 2002 ) .
this is the fascinating true story of a japanese boy ' s growing disillusionment with the conduct of a patriotic war .
ever since first grade at primary school , the boy had been dressed in a sweater with the name
h . senoh
knitted on the chest .
in the winter of the previous year , when an actress called okada and a stage director called sugimoto had fled across the border into the soviet union , the papers had reported it and there ' d been a great fuss , but not a word appeared about the deliver boy from the noodle shop . it must be because he wasn ' t famous , h concluded . even so , it puzzled him how the police had got to know about him .
this work of oral history captures in the words of ordinary people exactly what it was like to live in japan during the time of japan ' s war with china and the united states . as in a boy called h , many japanese express a view of the war that is very different from the official versions .
although a boy called h is an autobiographical novel , the story is told in the third rather than the first person . in this case , the point of view—the consciousness through which the story is told—is limited to h . other characters , and all situations and events , are seen through his eyes . and since h is a young boy , the style employed to convey his point of view is for the most part quite simple . the sentence structure is simple , and the vocabulary is appropriate for a boy of h ' s age . also , the story is told in a straightforward , chronological manner . there are no flashbacks ( except in chapter 2 , when h tells of his parents ' backgrounds ) or other more sophisticated literary devices .
senoh apparently recognized the validity of a number of yamanaka ' s claims about historical inaccuracies and revised later editions of shônen h , although the latter two concerns were not addressed by the author . a boy called h , based on the 18th printing published in september 1997 , reflects only some of the changes . as of february this year , the 29th printing was issued .
a look at day to day life of a school boy during war , told through short - story - like chapters . very good !
mr . nakata is h ' s physics and chemistry teacher . he and h dislike each other .
this is the fascinating true story of a japanese boy ' s growing disillusionment with the conduct of a patriotic war . boy h ' s father was a tailor , his mother a tambourine - banging christian in a country of very few christians . his childhood unfolded in the 1930s , when militarism was steadily strengthening its grip on japan ; it ended when the nation lay in ruins . what set h apa
itchan is a close friend of h at primary ( or national ) school . h confides in him that he owns a postcard from new york and talks to itchan about the united states . itchan passes this information on to another boy , who writes
spy
on h ' s desk in chalk . however , h and itchan are soon reconciled .
if taken as an artistic attempt to explain why japan continued along the path to what in retrospect can only be seen as its inevitable self - destruction , then a boy called h serves as a valuable aid for those who did not live through that process to be more compassionate with those who did . as such , it is well worth reading .
okubo is a friend of h in second middle school . like h , okubo does not believe the official versions of the war .
after a number of visits to his room , h found himself liking the delivery boy more and more and decided that as a mark of respect he ' d give him the nickname
red label .
yet any astute reader should see a boy called h as a literary work . each chapter is neatly constructed to make a single point and could stand alone as a short story , complete with beginning , middle and end . senoh said on a tv talk show that the chapters were written so that they would not have to be read in any particular order . indeed , the author often explains characters and h ' s current situation in a way that appears redundant to someone who is reading the book straight through .
a boy called h begins in 1937 . h ( short for hajime ) lives in kobe with his father , mother , and younger sister . h is about seven years old . japan is at war with china , and this conflict forms the background for the early part of the novel . it can be seen when h befriends a young man who works at the noodle shop and is shocked when his friend is arrested by the police as a communist and made to join the army . another of h ' s friends , the projectionist at the movie theater , hangs himself rather than be drafted into the army .
in 1997 , senoh published his autobiographical novel a boy called h : a childhood in wartime japan . this work was his first venture into full - length book form . the novel was a best - seller in japan and other countries in asia , selling over two million copies . it was adapted for the stage , and a television dramatization was made in 1999 . the novel was translated into english in 1999 .
a boy called h is carefully constructed to recreate the boy ' s development . the first chapters artfully illustrate his early innocence , curiosity and exuberance with a series of anecdotes reminiscent of the adventures of tom sawyer and huckleberry finn . like mark twain , senoh kappa narrates the story from the perspective of the youth , so that we see all his questions and confusion about the complex social issues in the world around him , but in a way that allows the more informed adult reader to laugh gently at his foibles .
i was also intrigued by yasuo fuhata ' s a boy called h ( 2013 ) a japanese film about a protestant christian tailor ' s family ' s experiences throughout the imperialistic surge and subsequent american occupation as seen through the eyes of the young son ,
h
( hajime ) . the child actors were quite compelling and it is an interesting story of survival and preservation among what many saw as mass hysteria . the there was the compelling coming of age story ,
when first published in japan in 1997 , a boy called h quickly became a best - seller . over two million copies were sold , and critics hailed the book as an outstanding example of literature about world war ii , although there was also a feeling that the book was not absolutely reliable in its historical details . most of these details were minor . for example , in an incident that takes place in the book in the summer of 1942 , h ' s sister sings a patriotic song that was not published until 1945 .
at his new school , h joins the riding club and learns how to ride a difficult horse called kamikeru . but he runs foul of inspector tamori , who is in charge of military training . tamori is furious when he discovers in h ' s notebook a drawing of a nude woman , copied from a painting by manet . to escape tamori , h joins the rifle club , where he learns military drills and target practice . this training culminates in an arduous night march .
sumiyama , a friend of h in second middle school , is kind to h when h ' s house is burned down . sumiyama also enthusiastically practices how to fight and kill enemy soldiers if they should land in japan .
after the war began with china , the government expected the press to be loyal to the japanese cause , and restrictions were placed on it . any news regarding the economy or foreign events was considered to be a state secret and could not be published without permission . ( in a boy called h , h frequently expresses annoyance and frustration at the number of things that are declared state secrets . ) further regulations made it a punishable offense to deviate from official guidelines or to reveal any information considered helpful to the enemy .
he did his rounds on a bicycle , singing loudly as he pedaled along . that was what attracted h : whenever he heard the delivery boy singing he ' d jump on his own bike and pedal off after him .
iwao hayashi is a friend of h . they are in the same grade at primary school . hayashi is a champion wrestler ; he is also intelligent and like h is good at drawing .
throughout a boy called h : a childhood in wartime japan , h continues to have troubling thoughts that explore the ethics of war . his musings are mature for a person his age , probably in part because his parents are thoughtful and deviate from the norm . keeping his thoughts to himself , or occasionally confiding to a few like - minded adults ( including his father ) , h questions the official party line and finds discrepancies in news coverage of the war . in some cases , h realizes that his views differ from those of his friends or his teachers . in riskier instances , he is silent , as when he is interviewing for a slot in school and is asked about his opinion on the war . a reviewer in publishers weekly suggests that this discrepancy
holm is a freelance writer with speculative fiction and nonfiction publications . in this essay , holm looks at how senoh captures the insidious effects of war in a young boy ' s daily life .
muneo ogura is a close friend of h toward the end of his time at second middle school .
he remembered various things now : how his friend had looked almost angry when he ' d called him
red label ,
and forbidden him to use the nickname ; the large number of records and books that he ' d had ; and the awkward look on his face when h had said
something private to talk about .
no , he hadn ' t been an ordinary delivery boy .
for those of us in a country that has never seen traditional warfare on its soil , it can be difficult to imagine the day - to - day realities of living in a nation under attack . even news coverage cannot come close to capturing the insidious ways that war can affect individual lives . kappa senoh ' s fictionalized autobiography , a boy called h : a childhood in wartime japan , does a fantastic job of capturing the process of war and its increasing presence in the life of h and others . the book ' s precocious protagonist does not flinch from making his views about war known to the reader , even though h feels he must keep his opinions to himself in many public situations .
boy h ' s father was a tailor , his mother a tambourine - banging christian in a country of very few christians . his childhood unfolded in the 1930s , when militarism was steadily strengthening its grip on japan ; it ended when the nation lay in ruins . what set h apart from other kids , despite the shared preoccupation with schoolmates , movies , and sex , was an unusually sharp eye and a precociously skeptical attitude that made him a bit of a loner in a conformist society .
set in 1950s tuscany , voice from the stone is the haunting and suspenseful story of verena , a solemn nurse drawn to aid a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother .
but h ' s life has its troubles .
maps and eggs
describes the futile efforts h and his parents make to curb his bed - wetting . and in
love ,
h learns to his embarrassment that the word love can have many different connotations . in
a boy and a sea ,
he and his friends row a dinghy too far from the shore and endanger themselves . then torrential rains drench kobe for days and lead to a serious flood . in his borrowed book the three treasures , h secretly reads children ' s stories in a book he borrows from a friend , even though his mother disapproves of his reading fiction .
what !
h exclaimed in surprise .
is yoshie a man ?
yoshie was more common as a woman ' s name .
done in white on a dark brown background , the name stood out even at a distance . but the boy , far from sharing his mother ' s pride andpleasure , found the idea of wearing something so different from other boys ' clothes a major embarrassment .
this is the fascinating true story of a japanese boy ' s growing disillusionment with the conduct of a patriotic war . boy h ' s father was a tailor , his mother a tambourine - banging christian in a country of very few christians . his childhood unfolded in the 1930s , when militarism was steadily strengthening its grip on japan ; it ended when the nation lay in ruins . what set h apart from other kids , despite the shared preoccupation with schoolmates , movies , and sex , was an unusually sharp eye and a precociously skeptical attitude that made him a bit of a loner in a conformist society . though at times dark , his anecdotes are arranged with the lightest of touches and a sharp sense of humor . the total effect is of a rich , varied , and intensely readable novel , but one that involves real lives , actual events .
h didn ' t know what an intellectual type of criminal was . but took it as a compliment .
not
ryohei koiso , a well - known artist , helps h in his studies after he graduates from second middle school .
hazel rochman , in booklist , commenting on how world war ii becomes increasingly real for h , noted that
the writing is quiet , almost detached at times , until you come to realize that the young boy is fighting emotional breakdown .
almost every evening after that , h went to the young man ' s room .
also called h , hajime senoh is the son of morio and toshika senoh . as a young boy in primary school he is intelligent and mischievous . according to his father , hajime has a habit of saying the first thing that comes into his head . hajime learns ways of getting what he wants even if he has to be devious . when he has no money but wants to see a
puppet peepshow
at a fairground , he tries to scare off the adults who are watching it by telling them they can contract an eye disease by touching the lens . significantly , his favorite god in japanese myth is susanowo , who has a reputation for behaving badly .
with a smile , the other took a box down from a shelf , put some dark - colored beans in it , and ground them with a loud rasping sound . there was a smell rather like tobacco , which h found a bit disturbing , but he did his best not to show it .
uncle hadano is a civil engineer . he is a close friend of the senoh family , and that is why h calls him uncle , although he is not a blood relative . h is fond of him and regards him as another father . the affection is mutual . h stays with uncle hadano for a while towards the end of the war . uncle hadano gets sick with cancer and dies shortly afterwards .
a recurring theme in a boy called h is the extent to which the japanese newspapers during wartime did not report the truth . h gets frustrated with what he reads about the war because he senses , as does his father , that they are not getting the whole story . when the first air raids are made on kobe , the newspaper headlines read ,
the neighborhood association spirit beats the raiders .
this puzzles h because he knows that , in fact , the air raid had taken the neighborhood association by surprise and that , in practice , the hazards of putting out fires were nothing like the smooth drills they had been regularly practicing . also , someone is killed in that first raid , but the newspapers fail to report it . h decides that the newspapers
are just a pack of lies !
and he does not change his opinion from then on .
h ' s father takes him to a restaurant , and h is allowed into the adjoining movie theater for his first taste of a film . not long after this experience , h gets a chance to make money of his own through an ingenious arrangement . he resells the paste that his father uses in his tailoring business to his school friends for use in their handicraft classes .
so from third grade on it was agreed that it should be just the letter h .
since pencils often had
h
engraved on them , it was one letter of the alphabet that everyone could read , and in no time
h
became his nickname .
h was startled ; he ' d never been shouted at like that by him before .
one of the best books i have ever read . it provides a highly descriptive and personal account of growing up in kobe during ww2 . the author covers day to day details of his life as a student in a world that was becoming more difficult to live in by the day . food shortages , brutal treatment by teachers , work in the factories and h ' s growing sense of disillusionment with those who were promoting the wartime propaganda are vividly portrayed . h also shows his own transformation from a young boy to hi
with a true nonconformist ' s mentality , h makes it clear early on that he respects people who stand for their principles . though his mother has forbidden him to read anything but the bible and textbooks , she finds that he is secretly reading the three treasures ( h loves books and movies ) . when she confronts an unsuspecting teacher about this , the teacher covers for h , saying that reading such books was good for h , and reading only the bible
wasn ' t likely to do [ children ] much good .
h admires the pragmatism and forthright nature of the teacher . given such glimpses at h ' s parents , it is easy to see how such a young protagonist developed such a questioning and intelligent nature . although his mother is an evangelist , she is at least willing to change her stance regarding h ' s reading material after meeting with the teacher . h ' s father also has a number of interesting discussions with h on the subjects of war , tolerance for other religions and cultures , and ethics . at one point , h ' s father tells the boy ,
if you ' re going to call religions that other people believe in ' heathen , ' you can ' t complain if other people refer to christianity as heathen .
h , who knew what
informing
meant , felt his heart begin to thump suffocatingly .
h is indeed horrified , even if the tone of the narrative is relatively subdued . in fact , throughout the book , h seems to process many horrifying experiences in a subdued , almost clinical way . it is difficult to tell whether this is part of the author ' s style or whether the protagonist , as reviewer hazel rochman suggests in booklist , sounds detached because
the young boy is fighting emotional breakdown .
h notes that the paper never reports on the incident . throughout the book , he ' ll continually notice discrepancies between reality and what the news reports , especially as the war accelerates . and possibly , for the first time in his life , the concept of being an informant is really understood by the boy . he begins to fear that noodles will think h informed on him .
in an interesting scene toward the end of the book , h expresses sudden joy that the war is over . his friend is upset with h ' s reaction and joy , since the friend ' s family members are potentially dead or injured because of the war . the friend smacks h in anger , and h experiences a sudden catharsis .
suddenly , the tear spilled from h ' s eyes too—not from regret at the defeat , but out of sheer , frustrated puzzlement as to what the war had been all about .
h fights with his conscience through much of the book . in showing this , senoh has made the book completely readable , since h is confronting aspects of the human condition others can relate to .
h ' s own favorite was the young man at the noodle shop farther along from them on the other side of the main street . the grownups living thereabouts couldn ' t quite place him .
seems he ' s from tokyo ,
they ' d say .
he looks too smart for a delivery boy .
yokota is a friend of h , and h considers him to be worldly - wise . yokota is one of the students who participates with h on the arduous night march and other military drills . he and h go on a secret riding excursion together and are consequently expelled from the riding club . yokota ' s family home is burned down following the big air raid on kobe in 1945 . not long after this event , his father is killed in action in the south pacific .
lurking behind the day - to - day experiences of the growing boy is the specter of the imperialism and militarism that characterized japanese society in the 1930s and continued until the japanese defeat in 1945 . imperialism and militarism are apparent almost from the beginning , in the passing reference to the neighborhood celebrations that followed the fall of nanking , china , to invading japanese forces in 1937 . h is affected by the war when he is only seven years old , when two of his friends are called up to the army . one of them commits suicide rather than enlist .
lieutenant tamori is the teacher in charge of military training at h ' s second middle school . all the students fear him . he is known as
his lechery
because not only does he cultivate an imperious manner , he also makes inappropriate inquiries about the boys ' sisters . tamori takes a dislike to h when he finds h ' s sketch of a female nude in his notebook . in another incident , tamori hits h for what he regards as an insolent remark . h joins the rifle club to escape him . later he hears a rumor that some years earlier , tamori ' s wife ran off with another man . this information makes h believe that tamori must be lonely , and he feels compassion for him .
it is immediately after the girly boy incident that h ' s true feelings about war begin to become clear . h begins to have the courage to process such thoughts internally , even though they run counter to what the government would have the public believe about the war . with surprising clarity for a young child , and an unusual lack of fear at the circumstances , h reflects on the situation .
his friend hadn ' t wanted to be a soldier , he thought to himself : suicide was the only alternative . he wondered if hanging himself had seemed better than being killed by a bullet on the battlefield .
morio is unfailingly kind and attentive to h , always ready to give him sound advice . even when h throws a rice pot lid at him and walks out of the house , morio does not blame him and welcomes him back with warmth .
you thought he was a woman , did you ? he ' s a famous tenor . of course he ' s a man . ' like a feather in the wind ' is a famous aria .
yoshiko senoh , h ' s sister , is two years younger than h . she likes to cling to her older brother , and h finds this attachment a nuisance . but in one incident yoshiko shows him kindness and he thinks better of her . this event occurs when she insists on eating with the fork that has one prong missing , even though it was h who broke the fork . yoshiko is evacuated to the countryside when the air raids start .
verena is a young nurse hired to help a mute young heir within an isolated castle in tuscany . the more she observes the boy , the more verena becomes convinced he has fallen under the spell of a powerful and otherworldly persona trapped in the castle ' s stone walls , one that seems to be quickly approaching on her .
the defeat on guadalcanal was also initially reported as a success , until , as h found out , it was conceded that japanese forces had made a
sideward advance
( which as shillony shows is a translation of the japanese word tenshin and is the equivalent of the phrase
advancing in another direction
that h reads about ) .
i think i ' ll like it when i ' ve had it a few times and get used to the bitterness ,
said h .
based on kappa senoh ' s 3 . 4 million selling autobiographical novel , this film set during the first half of the 1940s is a coming of age story with a twist , featuring a young boy named hajime ( nicknamed
h
) . their family is quite worldly compared to their community , his mother is a devout christian and his father is a tailor working with many expatriates in kobe . as patriotic world war ii unfolds , hajime ' s understanding of the world is challenged but his survival spirit shines through .
h didn ' t want to go home yet , so he pressed him to play something else instead .
the hero is dubbed
h
by his friends because his mother , inspired by a photograph she received from a foreign missionary friend , has knit the first letter of the boy ' s name , hajime , into a sweater that he often wears . both of his parents are devout christians with many contacts in the foreign community of kobe , and both strive to live according to their principles , especially by showing brotherly love to all people .
while this reviewer might find that these
big questions
would have been dealt with more directly had h voiced them aloud , h does , on many occasions , struggle with the questions internally , giving the reader a good argument regarding the ethics of war .
set in kobe in the early showa period . hajime ( yoshioka tatsuki ) , known as
h
, is an intensely curious boy with a strong sense of justice . he grows up loved by his liberal father morio ( mizutani yutaka ) and christian mother toshiko ( ito ran ) , but the war soon casts its shadow on hajime ' s life .
even though japan is not at war in the beginning of this book , the stage is being set as the author skillfully accents aspects of h ' s life that will later prove to have a direct relationship , in some way , to war . early on , h ' s mother is described as an ardent christian . the practice of christianity is not the norm during this period in japan . h ' s mother came from a family of buddhists , and
no one had dreamed for a moment that she might become christian , and it caused quite a stir in the village .
later , h ' s family is suspect in a general way , as wartime propaganda paints a picture of christianity as the religion of the
british and american fiends .
h ' s family is considered unusual in the community of kobe , since h ' s father is a tailor and has customers of all nationalities ( kobe has an international population ) . as the wartime situation becomes more tense , h ' s family needs to consider how openly they can practice their religion . h ' s father wonders if he ' ll still have international customers and how his business will fare .
hudson loverro , left , as a younger version of the character mr . thornton plays , with richard h . blake in the role of his father .
h ' s transition from childhood to early adulthood is apparent in several major episodes . firing live ammunition with the school rifle club for the first time is a significant moment , for example . so are the many times when he questions the validity of reports he reads in the newspapers about the progress of war . but the most important episode is when the family home is set on fire following an american air raid with incendiary bombs . fifteen - year - old h immediately takes charge , giving his mother instructions about what to do and dousing a quilt in water so that they can put it over their heads as they flee . when his mother stops to pray , he tells her they must keep moving . in fact , she has fainted , and h ' s slaps get her conscious again . then they come upon a woman whose son is badly injured . h almost faints at the sight of the blood , but he regains control of himself and offers the woman his flask of water , which she gives to the boy . but this is not enough to save him . for the first time h witnesses death , and h feels compassion for the dead boy—at least he is no longer in pain .
h is a nonconformist and a pragmatist . he is also a survivor . it ' s no surprise , therefore , when h begins to pursue a career as an artist toward the end of the book . many artists , through their work , pursue an ideal of telling the truth , of speaking the truth and letting it be known . although the character h may hesitate , out of necessity , to voice his opinions , the author has used effective honesty in giving us a look at the difficult ethics and the surrealistic everyday life in wartime japan .
the military exercises continue . h fires live ammunition for the first time and discovers that he is a good shot . another military exercise involves students simulating leaping up from a hiding place in the ground and throwing a grenade at an enemy tank .
furuta is one of the members of the second middle school rifle club , and he encourages h to join .
i know it !
h burst out .
it ' s a nice aria , isn ' t it ,
he added self - consciously .
three men in black who ' d got onto the roof from the drying platform leapt on him from in front and behind and pinned him down . there was a short struggle with loud cries of
hey ! stop !
before someone called out
got him !
and the young man disappeared with them over the roof to the other side .
this movie portrays the life of a tailor and his family from their boy ' s viewpoint . the locale is kobe , japan before , under and after the ww2 . the husband and wife are protestant christians , minority in japanese society even today . the father looks confident as a tailor , always having positive view of life . the mother has strong sense of mission as a christian , sometimes excessively strong faith . for the boy , having such mother sometimes makes his daily life difficult , but thanks to his father who even takes him to his foreign clients , the boy learns a lot in life . as the nation goes towards militarism and fascism , tribulations come to the christian home . as people see christians close to foreigners and thus suspect them of spying . the father ' s attitude for each issue is reassuring . from his attitude after the war , we can see it is not only his faith but also his pride as a professional tailor that support him . as a movie that portrays japan around the war , and as a movie that portrays a family , i think shonen h will be seen for long . since the plot is written from the child ' s viewpoint , it has simple plot structure , without any side stories . therefore everyone may have own sentiment . as for acting performance , the boy and the girl act very well . when the girl is sent for evacuation , getting on the train , she is nearly crying . the boy quirks his face to make her laugh , and the girl ' s face becomes half smiling and half crying . her face is unforgettable .
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h didn ' t take the military secret bit too seriously : the charcoal man was known for telling tall stories .
h found himself liking the delivery boy more and more and decided that as a mark of respect he ' d give him the nickname
red label .
the next time he went to visit , he told him about it . to his surprise , the smile was wiped off his face in a flash .
no , thank you !
he said in a loud voice ,
you stick to ' noodles ' —i don ' t want any ' red label .
'
right away , we are given a hint of the public paranoia that will increase over time . so early in the book , this instance of subtle public fear is an almost unnoticed foreshadowing of events to come , since it is combined with other apparently pleasant details of everyday life . h becomes friendly with a man from the noodle shop . when noodles ( as h calls him ) invites h up to his apartment to listen to records , h is so taken with the music that he calls noodles
red label ,
after the labels on the record collection .
although h ' s parents were keen on education , they believed that homework should be done after the evening meal , and that those daylight hours when the children were not at school were a time for them to play . thanks to that , once h got back from school every day he was free to amuse himself in the hills or on the beach without interference . all in all , h ' s days were a busy round of fun .
possibly the proprietor of the noodle shop had been taken in by the police as well , since the shop didn ' t open again for about a week after that . and from then on , the neighbors took care never to mention noodles again . when h plucked up courage and asked the proprietor ' s wife ,
where ' s your delivery boy now ?
the woman looked annoyed .
h ' s father morio also helps the boy understand other people ' s reactions . when h asks morio why the usually soft - spoken young man at a local shop bellowed out a speech welcoming his draft notice , morio points out that
he probably has this basic idea that it ' s a man ' s duty to give up his life for his country ,
and even though his
mother and the others in his family don ' t want to lose him ,
he
may well have wanted to declare to himself and everyone else that [ he ] … was a real man now .
h also sees morio himself slowly becoming more circumspect , even in his conversations with his son , since the child ' s bragging that his father has a picture postcard of a tall building in america is enough to get morio dragged into the police station for questioning .
h was particularly fond of the sea . rushing out of the house wearing nothing but a loincloth , he would race down the street and plunge straight into the water .
no , i won ' t tell anybody ,
said h .
herelet ' s swear on it .
he crooked a finger and held it out .
he lowered the needle gently onto the record . there was a scratchy noise for a moment , then suddenly the sound of a male voice singing .
based on the autobiographical novel
shonen h
by kappa senoh ( published by kodansha , july 9 , 1999 ) .
so during the summer holiday h ' s mornings were spent climbing in the hills and his afternoons swimming in the sea .
noodles slapped playfully at h ' s head .
i can see you ' re the intellectual type of criminal .
there are certain books a person must read about wwii , and i think this is one of them . it is about a boy growing up in kobe and the war going on around him . the boy , hajime , is unusually perceptive and his father is also very wise . his parents ( especially his mother ) are christians . hajime is good at art and ended up becoming an artist and writer . i looked at kappa senoh ' s biography on google and his real name is indeed hajime senoh . i don ' t personally believe that this book is strictly autobiog
h does not want to be a tailor like his father . instead , his greatest talent is drawing , and at the age of sixteen he resolves to become an artist .
the fellow looked taken aback for a moment , then said ,
it ' s a friend i haven ' t seen for a long time .
h , sensing that he was being treated as an adult , felt pleased and said ,
that doesn ' t bother me . yes , please .
they always drank black tea at h ' s home . he ' d never once had coffee .
but while calogero’s father , lorenzo ( richard h . blake ) , assures him that he was right to clam up — “you did a good thing for a bad man , ” he tells him — lorenzo ( mr . de niro in the movie ) grows increasingly alarmed when sonny begins taking calogero under his wing , giving him the nickname c and having him run errands , quite profitable ones . as boy grows to teenager , his hero worship only increases , and lorenzo and sonny engage in a tense tug of war for calogero’s soul .
the way h rode his bike , unfortunately , was not exactly graceful . they ' d bought him , secondhand , an adult ' s bike , and his feet wouldn ' t reach the pedals if he sat on the saddle , so he had to put his foot through from the side . even so , he got up quite a good speed and would tail the delivery boy closely , singing along with him as he went .
sometimes plain old pasta with red sauce is just what the doctor ordered . “a bronx tale , ” which opened at the longacre theater on broadway on thursday , might be called the musical - theater equivalent of that classic comfort food . it doesn’t break ground or dazzle with an unusual recipe — like , say , mixing rap and american history — but it delivers reliable pleasures with polished professionalism and infectious energy .
living in a temporary dwelling with his family , h gets angry about everything he does not like . under emotional strain , he quarrels with his parents and leaves home . he intends to commit suicide by lying under a train but pulls back at the last minute . for a while he lives in secret in a building at the school . unsure of whether he will be allowed to graduate , he decides to study art . he seeks out a well - known artist , who allows him to work at his studio . the novel ends with h working as a sign painter during the day and studying at night with fellow artists at a studio .
later it turns out that noodles is captured right in h ' s neighborhood ; and that noodles is thought to be a communist informant . but when h hears the neighbors talking about the incident and tries to decipher their meaning , he is brushed aside .
' what ' re dangerous thoughts ? who ' re the secret police ? ' h asked them anxiously , but the grown - ups suddenly clammed up . ' keep your voice down , ' he was told with a look of fierce disapproval .
this is an intensely real , human reaction—one that any reader who has taken a risk ( or considered taking a risk ) in voicing a dissenting opinion will recognize .
he sounded so firm about it that h said in a knowing voice ,
all right , i won ' t . i expect you ' ve got something private to talk about .
a few days after the bombing , h observes the area around hyogo station , which is completely leveled . dead bodies yet to be cremated are visible in the area . it is a sobering moment for h , who as a result of the air raid has been forced to lose any childhood innocence he may have had left :
' so this is war , ' he thought as he gazed over the seemingly endless sea of destruction .
others tend to see h as an odd boy , although he has plenty of friends at school . but he is always questioning authority and asking awkward questions about why things are as they are . he is puzzled by the adults who say that everything that happens in the war is the will of the emperor , since h cannot see how the emperor can possibly be aware of all the things being done in his name . h ' s instincts are pacifistic , and he does not want to join the rifle club because he feels it is too warlike . he makes up his own version of a patriotic jingle , neatly reversing its meaning . he becomes exasperated when he realizes that the newspapers are not telling the truth about the war .