The
beginning of chapter “SHORT, 2002” was a process interrogation of
a detective to one of two boys.
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1- “Lemon” in the lemon tree
The
boys are suspected commit a crime in the case of “The High School
Beauty Murder”, Han Manu, 18-year-old, in the police interrogation
room. Another suspect was Jeongjun, but this boy has an alibi. It was
flashback of the first narrator, Da-On, the younger sister of the
victim.
The
victim, Hae-on, was a senior in one of high school in Seoul, South
Korea. Her death body was found in a park, not too far from her
school, in afternoon July 1, 2002, when Seoul was crowded with
Japan-Korea FIFA World Cup.
Lemon
has started with a murder and an interrogation by detective, but this
novel more likely brings the readers to think about the cope of
grievances than to find out the killer.
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2- Part of book.
People
cope their griefs differently. Coping strategies are unique to an
individual, some of them are unacceptable.
The
second narrator in next chapter, Shanghui, was Hae-on classmate.
Shanghui and Da-on were in the same Poetry Club in their school. From
this narrator, the readers able to see the pictures of the class,
clubs. school, and her classmates. She was afraid to get wrong
person, but she believes the girl is Da-on.
Then,
she found out the girl with yellow skirt, lemon color, did plastic
surgery, she changed her face into her sister’s face, and she also
always wears yellow dress, like her descent sisters in her last day,
wearing yellow dress.
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3- A city hall, illustration only
Da-on
is really in deep pain from this murder, and pain from surgery.
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To be continued to Part 2
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