I wish everyone in my class would fail
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Winner of the 12th Jaum and Moeum Youth Literature Award.
This is the story of 'AA', a secret revenge group made up of the world's most timid people.
The protagonist, who has an idol boyfriend, becomes obsessed with grades in order to break the bad relationship with her nightmarish past.
One day, the protagonist gets a wrong answer on a test because the correct answer was incorrectly marked in the workbook, so he goes to Mimi's Bookstore to vent his frustration.
The protagonist and the people he meets there, each with their own story, plan a long-term project to take 'revenge' on the world.
"I Wish Everyone in My Class Would Fail" is a story about revenge that manifests itself through small and trivial will.
Amidst the countless shackles of the world that torment me, many characters in the novel, including the protagonist, hope to solidify their lives and self-esteem a little more, and plan revenge against those who torment 'me'.
Some may say that revenge is useless and will not cause any harm, but the characters in the novel do not give up.
The protagonist struggles to figure out how to protect himself from the kids in his class who maliciously bully him for getting better grades than him.
Then, suddenly, the thing you are best at, the thing you are most confident in, comes to mind… … .
This is the story of 'AA', a secret revenge group made up of the world's most timid people.
The protagonist, who has an idol boyfriend, becomes obsessed with grades in order to break the bad relationship with her nightmarish past.
One day, the protagonist gets a wrong answer on a test because the correct answer was incorrectly marked in the workbook, so he goes to Mimi's Bookstore to vent his frustration.
The protagonist and the people he meets there, each with their own story, plan a long-term project to take 'revenge' on the world.
"I Wish Everyone in My Class Would Fail" is a story about revenge that manifests itself through small and trivial will.
Amidst the countless shackles of the world that torment me, many characters in the novel, including the protagonist, hope to solidify their lives and self-esteem a little more, and plan revenge against those who torment 'me'.
Some may say that revenge is useless and will not cause any harm, but the characters in the novel do not give up.
The protagonist struggles to figure out how to protect himself from the kids in his class who maliciously bully him for getting better grades than him.
Then, suddenly, the thing you are best at, the thing you are most confident in, comes to mind… … .
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index
Lesson 1.
You shouldn't apologize so easily.
Lesson 2.
How to contribute nothing to human progress
Lesson 3.
Everyone has enemies in their lives.
Lesson 4.
Poor imagination and creativity only bring headaches.
Lesson 5.
The benefits should have been more visible and tangible.
Lesson 6.
There will be no butter or sugar in hell.
Lesson 7.
People are always creatures of routine.
Lesson 8.
The face should have the right amount of shade.
Epilogue
Author's Note
You shouldn't apologize so easily.
Lesson 2.
How to contribute nothing to human progress
Lesson 3.
Everyone has enemies in their lives.
Lesson 4.
Poor imagination and creativity only bring headaches.
Lesson 5.
The benefits should have been more visible and tangible.
Lesson 6.
There will be no butter or sugar in hell.
Lesson 7.
People are always creatures of routine.
Lesson 8.
The face should have the right amount of shade.
Epilogue
Author's Note
Detailed image
Into the book
“Looking at the school uniforms… is this the girls’ high school in front?”
It's ruined.
I instinctively grabbed my grandmother's wrinkled hand and said.
“I’ll buy all three volumes!”
“Your name is on the name tag too.”
My grandmother stared at the name tag attached to my breast pocket.
At this point, I had to accept reality.
Ten minutes later, I pictured a future where my mother, who hadn't even changed out of her Pilates clothes, would scorch me and burn me to a crisp.
“I was wrong…….”
“Hey, you shouldn’t apologize so easily.”
My eyes widened at the unexpected words as I was sobbing.
She even took off my school uniform name tag and put it in my hand.
“Of course you can’t carry something like this around.”
--- p.11
“Yang Ju-hong said he’s delivering it now.
“A kid in class 1 ordered chicken yesterday, and he brought it over.” “Wow… … It suits you.
“It’s perfect for him, delivery.”
“What did I do after dropping out……”
I just found out that kid dropped out.
'It's hopeless... ... .'
A class without any friends.
A barbaric group where everyone's sandbag has disappeared.
The days I spent studying like crazy and hoping for a quiet, uneventful life flashed before my eyes.
I stared at the back of the head of class president Go Myeong-gyeong, who was still not looking this way.
‘I don’t think you want to write down the record of the school violence committee meeting in the student affairs report… … .’
She was also a model student, after all.
'Well, I guess it'll end like this.'
--- pp.41~42
“Bear, have you ever fought?”
“Are you fighting?”
“Have you ever thrown a punch at someone, yelled at them on the street, or made up a malicious rumor about someone you didn’t like and spread it behind their back?”
The hammer had a very serious expression.
I shook my head slowly.
'Humans who cannot live outside the rules.'
The words of the snail came to mind.
I also remembered the time when I couldn't give the anosmia dacquoise to my annoying superstar brother and threw it in the trash can.
It was a snack that didn't work unless you ate it consistently for 29 years.
Who would I fight with? A fistfight with Go Myeong-gyeong? Screaming at her?
--- pp.53~54
“Mom, do you like that?”
My mother still didn't understand a word I said.
I thought while drinking the barley tea my mother brought.
Someday, my brother might come out on TV and just blow off some steam.
poor,
Terrible,
The unbearable past,
The whole nation might find out.
So, getting one more question right and raising my score by one point was my top priority.
The easiest way to get away from Eunseong Choi.
It was clear that it was better to be the top student in the class and the top student in the entire school without a name than to be called Eunseong Choi's younger sibling.
It was the anonymous me that I had so tenaciously maintained.
Doesn't Choi Eun-seong know that I don't want to be known as his family? No, my brother knows.
So, Choi Eun-seong must be punishing me right now.
From the time the windows rattled until now, I have been putting off the punishment for my share of threats and fears to him.
This is to me, who had left my younger brother, who was not much older than me, alone in front of my father and pretended not to know him, and even told him to die.
--- pp.210~211
I am not a weak person who is obsessed with one problem.
I have both luck and luck.
I also have a wealthy but unlucky older brother to back me up.
Admitting that my answer was wrong gave me a lot more peace of mind than I expected.
“It takes a surprising amount of energy to bring someone down.”
Yang Joo-hong said it clearly.
It was a fact that I knew and you knew too.
There's a talent for hatred and bullying. No one in AA is born with that talent.
It's a shame, but there was nothing I could do about it.
(syncopation)
“But what’s important is that we’re doing something.”
I said in a determined voice.
I have a 21-year project.
It's ruined.
I instinctively grabbed my grandmother's wrinkled hand and said.
“I’ll buy all three volumes!”
“Your name is on the name tag too.”
My grandmother stared at the name tag attached to my breast pocket.
At this point, I had to accept reality.
Ten minutes later, I pictured a future where my mother, who hadn't even changed out of her Pilates clothes, would scorch me and burn me to a crisp.
“I was wrong…….”
“Hey, you shouldn’t apologize so easily.”
My eyes widened at the unexpected words as I was sobbing.
She even took off my school uniform name tag and put it in my hand.
“Of course you can’t carry something like this around.”
--- p.11
“Yang Ju-hong said he’s delivering it now.
“A kid in class 1 ordered chicken yesterday, and he brought it over.” “Wow… … It suits you.
“It’s perfect for him, delivery.”
“What did I do after dropping out……”
I just found out that kid dropped out.
'It's hopeless... ... .'
A class without any friends.
A barbaric group where everyone's sandbag has disappeared.
The days I spent studying like crazy and hoping for a quiet, uneventful life flashed before my eyes.
I stared at the back of the head of class president Go Myeong-gyeong, who was still not looking this way.
‘I don’t think you want to write down the record of the school violence committee meeting in the student affairs report… … .’
She was also a model student, after all.
'Well, I guess it'll end like this.'
--- pp.41~42
“Bear, have you ever fought?”
“Are you fighting?”
“Have you ever thrown a punch at someone, yelled at them on the street, or made up a malicious rumor about someone you didn’t like and spread it behind their back?”
The hammer had a very serious expression.
I shook my head slowly.
'Humans who cannot live outside the rules.'
The words of the snail came to mind.
I also remembered the time when I couldn't give the anosmia dacquoise to my annoying superstar brother and threw it in the trash can.
It was a snack that didn't work unless you ate it consistently for 29 years.
Who would I fight with? A fistfight with Go Myeong-gyeong? Screaming at her?
--- pp.53~54
“Mom, do you like that?”
My mother still didn't understand a word I said.
I thought while drinking the barley tea my mother brought.
Someday, my brother might come out on TV and just blow off some steam.
poor,
Terrible,
The unbearable past,
The whole nation might find out.
So, getting one more question right and raising my score by one point was my top priority.
The easiest way to get away from Eunseong Choi.
It was clear that it was better to be the top student in the class and the top student in the entire school without a name than to be called Eunseong Choi's younger sibling.
It was the anonymous me that I had so tenaciously maintained.
Doesn't Choi Eun-seong know that I don't want to be known as his family? No, my brother knows.
So, Choi Eun-seong must be punishing me right now.
From the time the windows rattled until now, I have been putting off the punishment for my share of threats and fears to him.
This is to me, who had left my younger brother, who was not much older than me, alone in front of my father and pretended not to know him, and even told him to die.
--- pp.210~211
I am not a weak person who is obsessed with one problem.
I have both luck and luck.
I also have a wealthy but unlucky older brother to back me up.
Admitting that my answer was wrong gave me a lot more peace of mind than I expected.
“It takes a surprising amount of energy to bring someone down.”
Yang Joo-hong said it clearly.
It was a fact that I knew and you knew too.
There's a talent for hatred and bullying. No one in AA is born with that talent.
It's a shame, but there was nothing I could do about it.
(syncopation)
“But what’s important is that we’re doing something.”
I said in a determined voice.
I have a 21-year project.
--- p.229
Publisher's Review
★The 12th Jaum and Moeum Youth Literature Award winner!
“I’m going to make all those kids study.”
A revenge meeting of the world's most timid people is underway!
The Jaum and Moeum Youth Literature Award, which has presented stories for dreaming teenagers, starting with “The Shop That Sells Time” and continuing with “The Clothes Collection Box of Oz”, “The Boy Who Swallowed Sound”, and “Six Pack”, has reached its 12th year.
This award-winning work, "I Wish Everyone in My Class Would Fail," is a work that captures the lives of several characters, including the eighteen-year-old protagonist who became alone by choice or inevitability, and who live timidly but with bold determination.
The protagonist, who dreams of becoming an honor student and becoming completely independent from his mother and older brother, one day experiences a drop in his grades due to an incorrect answer in his workbook.
The bookstore owner, Mimi, finds the protagonist underlining the relevant questions in a workbook in a bookstore in front of the school to vent her anger. She makes a 'threat' disguised as a proposal to the protagonist to join a reading club held on the second floor of the bookstore.
There, the protagonist is horrified by Cookie's plot to numb gourmets' sense of smell by adding a small amount of foul-smelling cheese to dacquoise, hears from Ttukbokki, a math genius who was bullied in his class and dropped out, that he will never do anything useful to the world, and is puzzled by Kilo's plan to plant code on social media that will cause a malicious virus to spread decades later, breaking the links between the real world. He meets people who dream of revenge on those who tormented him in the anonymous world.
While they are all planning long-term projects that could last from several years to several decades, the protagonist says he wants to take revenge right now on the 'Gomyungkyung gang' who are harassing him because of his good grades.
The leader of the group, Iko, asks the protagonist, “Can you throw an eraser at the back of that kid’s head?”
And the main character can't even throw an eraser.
“I have decided.
“If you don’t move forward, nothing will change.”
A plan made after overcoming pain may seem timid, but it is bold.
The characters in the novel all have their own stories, but they all have one thing in common: they are timid people.
They are too timid to rebel against society's wrongful treatment of them, and instead hide in anonymity, dreaming only of small, but harmless revenge.
Their revenge is not really meant to ruin someone's life.
It is a struggle to announce to myself and to the world that I, the 'I', am doing something unique in this society, and that my existence is the most valuable act in this act.
There is a saying that a falling drop of water wears away a rock.
Even a small amount of energy, if applied consistently, can break through rock.
If you survive, you will be able to shed even a single drop of water, and if those drops accumulate, the day will surely come when they will wear away the rock.”
_From the author's note
Through these timid and weak beings, the author wanted to listen to the voices of young people living through the winter outside of the novel.
In that sense, when the judges asked during the judging process, “What kind of youth novel do young people want?”, everyone had no choice but to choose this novel as the answer to that question.
In other words, 『I Wish All the Kids in My Class Would Fail』 is a novel that cheers for the revenge of not only the characters in the story, but also the young readers who read the novel.
The revenge discussed in the novel is not malicious or grand.
It is my will to express to the world in my own voice that I am “doing something” and that I am enduring the most rapid changes in my body and mind during adolescence.
Just as the protagonist in the novel overcomes himself and takes the next step, I hope that readers of the novel will also feel their current selves through the smallest of steps and gain the strength to move forward into tomorrow.
Recovering with small attempts
'I' and our self-esteem
Just as the protagonist sublimated his pain into petty revenge, I hope that readers will be able to heal the dark inner self that everyone has or could have while reading this story.
Kim Hye-jeong, Yoo Young-min, and Kim Seon-hee (judges for the 12th Jaum and Moeum Youth Literature Award)
“I’m going to make all those kids study.”
A revenge meeting of the world's most timid people is underway!
The Jaum and Moeum Youth Literature Award, which has presented stories for dreaming teenagers, starting with “The Shop That Sells Time” and continuing with “The Clothes Collection Box of Oz”, “The Boy Who Swallowed Sound”, and “Six Pack”, has reached its 12th year.
This award-winning work, "I Wish Everyone in My Class Would Fail," is a work that captures the lives of several characters, including the eighteen-year-old protagonist who became alone by choice or inevitability, and who live timidly but with bold determination.
The protagonist, who dreams of becoming an honor student and becoming completely independent from his mother and older brother, one day experiences a drop in his grades due to an incorrect answer in his workbook.
The bookstore owner, Mimi, finds the protagonist underlining the relevant questions in a workbook in a bookstore in front of the school to vent her anger. She makes a 'threat' disguised as a proposal to the protagonist to join a reading club held on the second floor of the bookstore.
There, the protagonist is horrified by Cookie's plot to numb gourmets' sense of smell by adding a small amount of foul-smelling cheese to dacquoise, hears from Ttukbokki, a math genius who was bullied in his class and dropped out, that he will never do anything useful to the world, and is puzzled by Kilo's plan to plant code on social media that will cause a malicious virus to spread decades later, breaking the links between the real world. He meets people who dream of revenge on those who tormented him in the anonymous world.
While they are all planning long-term projects that could last from several years to several decades, the protagonist says he wants to take revenge right now on the 'Gomyungkyung gang' who are harassing him because of his good grades.
The leader of the group, Iko, asks the protagonist, “Can you throw an eraser at the back of that kid’s head?”
And the main character can't even throw an eraser.
“I have decided.
“If you don’t move forward, nothing will change.”
A plan made after overcoming pain may seem timid, but it is bold.
The characters in the novel all have their own stories, but they all have one thing in common: they are timid people.
They are too timid to rebel against society's wrongful treatment of them, and instead hide in anonymity, dreaming only of small, but harmless revenge.
Their revenge is not really meant to ruin someone's life.
It is a struggle to announce to myself and to the world that I, the 'I', am doing something unique in this society, and that my existence is the most valuable act in this act.
There is a saying that a falling drop of water wears away a rock.
Even a small amount of energy, if applied consistently, can break through rock.
If you survive, you will be able to shed even a single drop of water, and if those drops accumulate, the day will surely come when they will wear away the rock.”
_From the author's note
Through these timid and weak beings, the author wanted to listen to the voices of young people living through the winter outside of the novel.
In that sense, when the judges asked during the judging process, “What kind of youth novel do young people want?”, everyone had no choice but to choose this novel as the answer to that question.
In other words, 『I Wish All the Kids in My Class Would Fail』 is a novel that cheers for the revenge of not only the characters in the story, but also the young readers who read the novel.
The revenge discussed in the novel is not malicious or grand.
It is my will to express to the world in my own voice that I am “doing something” and that I am enduring the most rapid changes in my body and mind during adolescence.
Just as the protagonist in the novel overcomes himself and takes the next step, I hope that readers of the novel will also feel their current selves through the smallest of steps and gain the strength to move forward into tomorrow.
Recovering with small attempts
'I' and our self-esteem
Just as the protagonist sublimated his pain into petty revenge, I hope that readers will be able to heal the dark inner self that everyone has or could have while reading this story.
Kim Hye-jeong, Yoo Young-min, and Kim Seon-hee (judges for the 12th Jaum and Moeum Youth Literature Award)
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: December 20, 2022
- Page count, weight, size: 236 pages | 352g | 140*205*13mm
- ISBN13: 9788954448628
- ISBN10: 8954448623
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