[Pachinko #1] # Chapter 2: November 1932

 

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[Summarize this chapter]

The winter following Japan's Manchuria invasion was more difficult than usual for Yangjin and Sunja. YJ tried her best to keep food until the end of this winter, showering ingredients with spices. 

One day Baek Isak came to the boardinghouse to ask for a room to stay. His older brother used to live here when Hoonie was alive, so he recommended his younger brother staying this house.

 

=> The winter following Japan's invasion of Manchuria was more difficult than usual for Yangjin and Sunja. Yangjin did her best to make the food last until the end of the winter, flavoring ingredients with spices.

One day, Baek Isak came to the boardinghouse to ask for a room to stay in. His older brother had lived there when Hoonie was alive, so he recommended that his younger brother stay at this house.

 

 

[Quotes that I liked ]

No doubt, the canny and the hardy survived that winter, but the shameful reports—of children going to bed and not waking up, girls selling their innocence for a bowl of wheat noodles, and the elderly stealing away quietly to die so the young could eat—were far too plentiful.

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(p. 10) Biting winds sheared through the small boardinghouse,
: 작은 하숙집을 가르는 매서운 바람 (증말 어순 완전 반대네 ^0^)

무기 중 하나인가봄ㅋㅋㅋ 바람을 가를 수 있는 매서운 활!

• shear: to cut the wool off a sheep 
  • The farmer taught her how to shear sheep.
  • shear through : ~을 뚫고 나아가다  ; They sheared through the bush
  • wind shear: 급돌풍 ; shear가 잘라서 두개의 seperate 조각으로 나눠버리는 거임. 그래서 wind shear도 바람의 스피드나 방향을 갑자기 원래의 방향이 아닌 다른 방향으로 바꿔버림 (slicing)

 

(p. 10) In the name of the Emperor, even ordinary Japanese went without.
: (Poor Americans were as hungry as the poor Russians and the poor Chinese.) Depression으로 다들 굶주림. 천왕의 이름으로, 일반 일본인들도 별 수 없이 힘들게 살아가고 있었음.

• go without (something): to not have something or to manage to live despite not having something
  
  • I couldn't go a single day without internet! == I couldn't survive a day without internet. 

https://m.blog.naver.com/tutoring360/222008683583

 

(p. 10) The rent had to be paid each month to the landlord’s agent, who was persistent.
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(p. 11) millet and barley
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(p. 11) the meager things they had in the larder
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(p. 11) an extra pail
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(p. 11) mackerel,
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(p. 11) she preserved them with spices to supplement the scantier meals that were sure to come.
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(p. 11) this setup was not half bad.
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(p. 11) a marriage could beget children
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(p. 11) these men understood their limits. The rise in prices accompanied by the shortage of money was distressing, but the lodgers were almost never late with the rent.
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(p. 11) Yangjin would take a jar of cooking oil in place of a few yen on rent day.
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(p. 12) talked brashly about politics.
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(p. 12) exclaimed
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(p. 12) since their own rulers had failed them.
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(p. 12) Yangjin retrieved it from the kitchen.
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(p. 13) The brothers’ talk of China lingered in her mind.
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(p. 13) he would nod, exhale resolutely,
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(p. 13) Whether China capitulated or avenged itself,
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(p. 13) if they were to have shoes,
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(p. 13) The dampened hem of Baek Isak’s woolen coat had frozen stiff, but at last Isak found the boardinghouse.
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(p. 13) the cold in Busan was deceptive.
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(p. 13) Winter in the South appeared milder, but the frosty wind from the sea seeped into his weakened lungs and chilled him to the marrow.
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(p. 13) he felt depleted again,
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(p. 14) but she hadn’t done so this winter for lack of time.
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(p. 15) How could she not?
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(p. 16) the fish odors
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(p. 16) the men would fuss a little about having to share the space with another lodger, but it wasn’t as if Yangjin could have turned him out.
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