Hi! Folks!

I agree with what Sanae wrote.
I think the director of the zoo has one or two brothers and his brothers have obeyed him.
His mother also admires what he does and thinks.
But I think his wife is more proud of herself than of him.
She sometimes says and acts as if the director were stupid or not an important person.
So he had to succeed in his career.

Do you think they have any children?
If he had any children, what would he have told the elephant was made out of rubber?

I think he has no child.

How do you think about the director?
Please let me know how you think what kind of person he was.


です。

The director of the zoo has been different from other people since he was a little child. He was a smart and well-mannered kid, but he has never cared about anybody around him.His parents have been proud of him being smart and competent, but they have never really tried to understand him deeply. He
didn't love his parents and he didn't care if his parents loved him or not.
He has brothers, but he has never cared about them either.

He has never been interested in any people except himself. He has never been interested in other creatures either. He doesn't understand why people need animals since animals don't work and make no money. He thinks that they don't need any zoo at all and children don't have to see animals. He even thinks it a waist of money to keep a zoo and take care of animals there.
When he became the director of the zoo, he didn't mind, but he only thought about a higher position he would possibly get next. It seems extremely rediculous to him to spend a huge amount of money on having a real elephant in the zoo.

His plan of making a rubber elephant didn't work and the children who witnessed the scene turned into hooligans. Was he shocked or disappointed?
No, not at all... It was just an elephant and just some children...so what?
This failure would have affected his career and it was the only thing he really careed about.

Does he have a child? No, I don't think so. Does he have a wife? Yes, maybe...having a wife might be important for him to get promoted.

適当なことばっかり書きました。深い意味はありません。
ごえべえさん、いつも語彙等調べてくださってありがとうございます〜。

ところで他のメンバーの方はどうなさっているのでしょうか？お仕事がお忙しいのか
体調を崩されているのか。サマリーが無理なら近況だけでも掲示板の方に書いていた
だけるといいのではないかと思います。私もひどい風邪をひいておりました。やっと
回復してきました。

ぽち

昨日、Sudden Fiction InternationalのAfternoteを読んだら、
The effect on the children of dixscovering the fake does resemble the reaction
of naive Stalinists to the revelation that Stalin was not a hero but a monster.

とありました。
もひとつ
the rubber elphant represents communist doctrine?
ともありました。
ポーランドと言えば、誰だったか、超贅沢をしてた偉いさんがいましたよね。
偉いさんって、the zoo director　みたいなんでしょうね。

ぽちさん、みなさん

Did he love anyone else? Uh.....I guess you are right. He doesn't care what other people think.
The failure he did would make him change, don't you think?
I think it is difficult that he change who he is.

Did the soulless official who decieded not to allocate an elphant but to make a rubber elphant would have regreted what he decided?
I don't thinkg so.
The official would have simply replaced the zoo director with somebody else.
And the director would have been resentful enough at the official who agreed the director's idea.
Only the director can do is to angry and resent at someone.
Because he think he had been always right.

He would have fired two zoo keeper at once, I suppose.
How do you think?

やっぱ、子どもはいなかったでしょうね。
ガスを象に入れた飼育員、どうなったかな・・・

ごえべえ