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Finished How Do You Live - Uncle's Notebook - On True Experience

Copper's uncle was proud of Copper sticking with Uragawa. He told Copper that human experience was part of life's great journey, and he must find the answer for himself instead of learning it from school. After that, Copper should always listen to his heart and remember what moved him deeply. And did things according to what he truly believed.

Finished How Do You Live - Chapter 2

There was one event called the Fried Tofu Incident when Uragawa became a laughing stock during the drafting of a class assembly. Kitami stood up for him and had a go with his bully, Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi was pinned to the floor while being pummeled repeatedly in the head. In the end, the professor intervened as Yamaguchi was scolded and Kitami received a warning only.

Reading How Do You Live - Chapter 2

A clumsy, poor classmate of copper was then introduced: Uragawa. He was either good at his schoolwork or at physical education. He was also from a low-income family, so there was a huge gap in background between him and his affluent classmates. Since he wasn't up to par in school, he was always getting teased. He just received the latest nickname, Fried Tofu.

Reading How Do You Live - Chapter 2

The start of this chapter introduced two of Copper's closest friends. Mizutani and Kitami. Mizutani was slender and good-looking, was always a calm presence, and had a sort of girlish shyness, but Kitami was the exact opposite. He was stubborn as a rock; once something he had set in his mind, it could not be changed, no matter what. That was where his nickname Gatchin came from.

Finished Uncle's notebook - on ways of looking at things

So copper's name came from the great astronomer and mathematician, Nicolaus Copernicus. When copper thought of himself, he was only a molecule among the sea of human society. This way of thinking was like Copernicus's philosophy, where you removed the sense of self to look at things outside of your own perspective, so you could glimpse truth.

Finished How Do You Live? - Chapter 1

During the time spent on the rooftop of the department store, Copper found out that people coming into the heart of the city were like rising and falling tides. Each one of them was like water molecules like him and his uncle. Upon the similarities between the sea and Tokyo, he began to feel dizzy. After his uncle went home, he wrote some scribbles in his notebook for Copper.

Reading How Do You Live - Chapter 1

Copper and his uncle were standing on the roof of a department store in the Ginza district of Tokyo. It was a seven-story building. There was a fine mist shrouding Tokyo. When the rain drizzled, the leaden sky combined with the droplets, forming a melancholy scene on the gloomy streets of Tokyo.

Finished How Do You Live - Introduction

It was an introduction to Copper's background: he cared a lot about his size and height at school, he's got good grades, is a little bit mischievous, and lost his father two years ago. An uncle, his mother's brother, came to visit him often. The story started by exploring the origin of his nickname.