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Book Club/Hidden Figures

[Hidden Figures] # Chapter 3: Past Is Prologue

by 지나가는 행인의 왈왈 2024. 7. 19.

 

 

 


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[Summarize this chapter]

932년결혼 1935년 팜빌 선생님으로감 학생들 교육 위해 열정을 쏟음. 1943년 전쟁(대문에 생활이랑 교육 전면 변경되.. 가족을위해서는 선생님하는게 맞는데 본인 의
꿈 을위해서 Langley 감 _.
아이들은 팜빌에서 친척들과 살았음... 
그런데남편과 멀어징 포
<중간에 딸얘기> 
1942년 이사 
.. 그녀딸 Katherine 그녀만큼 수학머리 뛰어남. 월반. _
1936년에 black 학생도 대학원가게해달라 1938년 OK but separate1940년 katherine도 지. 원 ut 그녀도 대학원가서 석사 따고 싶었는데 차별때문에 Dorothy 처럼 그녀도 못받음. 결국전업주부C그런데 몇년후딸도 lang ley가나봉) 
<다시 돌아와서 1943년> 


Newport 도착!

결국 제목에서 하고 싶었던 말은 과거는 프롤로 일뿐이었다. 결국 그녀들은 해냈다. 


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(p. 19) had been obsolete almost from its beginning.
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(p. 19) took their chances each morning in barely roadworthy buses that made the rounds in the outer reaches of Prince Edward County.
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(p. 19) to impart the finer points
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(p. 20) dashed off a letter to the publisher informing them of their mistake
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(p. 20) The Good Lord himself might have squirmed in his seat if Mrs. Vaughan had caught Him out in her class without having done His algebra homework.
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(p. 20) several of Moton’s vocal quartets had come away victorious in statewide music competitions.
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(p. 20) put students through their paces in preparation for the year’s Christmas cantata,
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(p. 20) The feverish summer gave way to fall foliage and brisk mornings, but routines had changed to accommodate the war.
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(p. 20) each purchase a small offset against the gargantuan cost of the military production.
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(p. 20) accorded a native daughter;
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(p. 20) she had called it home longer
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(p. 20) Her life, however, was a model of America’s great love affair with mobility, in every sense. In moments of deepest reflection, as she waited for a response to her application for the job in Hampton, Dorothy might have detected the quickening of something beyond the pragmatic hope for economic advancement, the reigniting of restless embers long quiet in the twelve years since she had come to Farmville.
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(p. 21) Paper resolve was one thing, the messiness of real life another.
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(p. 21) would be able to dissuade her from her goal.
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(p. 21) she lingered over her children in the house on South Main only until the bell rang at the front door.
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(p. 21) spiriting her off in the opposite direction.
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(p. 22) The job at Langley, an abstraction for half a year, moved into focus.
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(p. 22) inlets, and wetlands that embroidered the Virginia coast?
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(p. 22) replete with family, friends, and school.
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(p. 22) but loving in-laws could provide only so much salve for a missing husband’s companionship.
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(p. 23) who knew the call of the open road so well,
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(p. 23) peering through the shrubbery-covered iron fence from the outside so that they might steal a glance at the German and Japanese detainees interned at a makeshift prisoner-of-war camp on the premises.
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(p. 24) had skipped her ahead in school.
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(p. 24) taken under the wing of a gifted young math professor named William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor,
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(p. 25) But a master’s degree in math would elude Katherine just as it had Dorothy.
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(p. 25) Her choice to prioritize family life did nothing to dampen her parents’ pride in her academic achievements.
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(p. 25) Did she, like Dorothy, ever wonder about where the opportunity might have taken her?
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(p. 25) Did she imagine what her talent might look like if it were pushed to the limit?
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(p. 25) Dorothy’s first big chance was now fifteen years in the past, long enough ago to assume that the die of her life had been irrevocably cast.
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(p. 25) one that might finally unleash her professional potential—
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(p. 25) It was disguised as a temporary furlough from her life as a teacher, a stint expected to end and deposit her back in the familiarity of Farmville when her country’s long and bloody conflict was over.
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