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A Shower

The story follows a young boy who spies on a girl playing by a stream. They meet again and play together, but are caught in a heavy rainstorm. The girl falls ill after getting wet in the rain. Though the boy returns to the stream hoping to see her again, he later overhears that the girl has died, still wearing the clothes from the day they played in the rain.

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A Shower

The story follows a young boy who spies on a girl playing by a stream. They meet again and play together, but are caught in a heavy rainstorm. The girl falls ill after getting wet in the rain. Though the boy returns to the stream hoping to see her again, he later overhears that the girl has died, still wearing the clothes from the day they played in the rain.

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A Shower

By: Hwang Sun-Kwon


 SHOWER is a short story written by Hwang Sun Won. The story is about the process of
innocent love of a young boy and a girl. The story begins with the boy seeing the girl
stepping in a stone playing with water by the stream. He recognized her as the grand
daughter of Mr. yoon. One day, she called out the boy and threw a pebble at him. After
that, the girl ram along the reeds. the next day, the boy didn't see the girl. He feltlonely
and developed a sense of touching the stone the girl touched and put it inside his
pocket. One day, he was looking at his reflection on the water and saw the girl in the
water. He was quite shocked and didn't know why he was seeing the girl. he ran and
tripped over the stepping stone.
 "Rain Shower", also "Shower" or "Sonagi" ( 소나기 ), is a Korean short story
written by Korean writer Hwang Sun-won in 1952. A sonagi is a brief but heavy
rain shower that starts suddenly, usually on a hot afternoon. In Hwang’s story,
the rain shower symbolizes the short but heart-rending love between the boy
and the girl.
The story begins as a boy spies on the great-
granddaughter of Mr. Yoon, who is sitting on a stepping
stone in a stream. She is scooping up handfuls of water in
an effort to catch her reflection. Suddenly, she turns around
and throws a pebble at the boy, which the boy picks up.
The boy returns to the stream the next day, but the girl is
not there. From that day on, he develops the habit of
rubbing the pebble that was thrown at him. One day, it is
the boy who is sitting on the stepping stone trying to catch
his own reflection in the water. As he is doing so, he sees
the reflection of the girl in the water. Embarrassed, he runs
away but trips over a stepping stone.
On a Saturday, the boy and the girl meet again and she shows
him a “silk clam”. They become good friends and run around the
countryside, playing with scarecrows in the field and a calf. After
being reprimanded by the owner of the calf, they suddenly find
themselves under heavy rainfall. They first seek shelter in an old
lookout, but later decide to take shelter in a haystack as the rain
keeps pouring in. After the rain stops, the boy carries the girl on
his back to help her cross a ditch.
The boy returns to the stream in subsequent days, but the girl is
never there. After a long time, the girl appears to tell him that
she has been ill ever since she got a cold in the rain and that
she is still not feeling well. She also shows him the dress that
she wore that day, which was stained by the water from the
ditch. Before she leaves, she gives him some dates that she
took from her family’s ancestral worship ceremony that day.
 The boy sneaks into a walnut grove that evening to
pick some walnuts for the girl, planning to give
them later as a way of thanking her. However, as
he returns home and is lying on the bed, he
overhears his father speaking to his mother that
the Yoon family’s fortune has declined and that the
girl has died. The father also mentions that she
must have been an extraordinary girl, because she
said she wanted to be buried in the same clothes
she was wearing that day.
Symbolism
 The Shower= Emphasizes love between two children. rain shower symbolizes short,
tragic, budding love of a young boy and girl.
 The Children= Symbolizes the purity
 The love= short like the rain on that afternoon
 The Warm Afternoon= transition before dark to evening. The warmth will soon be
cold during evening. This depicts innocent love, still unripe because this might just be
first pure innocent love of youngsters. But since there was a rainshower, this warm
afternoon soon became cold. Because of the rain shower, their budding love was
hindered, causing the girl's death.

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