At the Novigiate the motherless Kataoka children were inconsolate.Father cieslik worked hard to keep them distracted .He put riddles to them .He asked them is the cleverest animal in the world? and after the thirteen years old girl hadgussed the ape ,the elephant ,the horse .He said, "no, it must be the hippopotamus". Because in japanese that animal is kaba the reverse of baka stupid.He told Bible stories, beginning, in the order of things,with the creation .He showed them a scrapbook of snapshots taken in Europe .Nevertheless, they cried most of the time for their mother.PAGE-62.
This group of sentences is very confused to me.Because in an war situation ,kataoka asked his children about the cleverest animal in the world and in response one of his children answered that the ape, elephant, and horse is the cleverest animal and he said,no.I do not understand , why he said that it must be hippopotamus which was called kaba in japanese languags and it is the opposite of baka,means stupid.It confused me because it is not clear why he mentioned baka or stupid in this sentence.
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This scene is that Father Cieslik tries to distract children with joking because children are so upset and crying for missing their mother who are killed by bam. As mentioning above, Kaba means Hippopotamus and Baka, the reverse of Kaba, means “stupid” in Japanese language, so Father Cieslik jokes that Baka, hippopotamus, is the cleverest animal.
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