読書感想文とか

July 4, 2007

Speech for xxxx

Today, I'd like to talk about a book, 'THE CATCHER IN THE RYE', written by Jerome David Salinger. I'm reading it now but I'll quote a few lines that impressed me.

...(Old Spencer said) "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules."
(Holden said) "Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it."
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game all right---I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game....

I don't know what Salinger would mean, but I think these lines mean the mentality of successful persons in society.

A successful person want to say he has been trying to do many things by himself and that an unsuccessful person has not. So he says the life is game, in order to make unsuccessful one understand this fact he believes unconsciously. That means " You are not trying to adapt yourself to the rules of society, so that you are unsuccessful." A winner is likely to emphasize his efforts rather than a coincidence, though his success may have nothing to do with his efforts. Sometime, a winner's logic lacks the consideration of individual circumstances. To make people on the other side participate in the game is not a kindness but a nuisance.

Life may be a game for some people, but a game is not life for all.