Summary Of Confessions By Kanae Minato

Milk Gone Bad Some people don’t believe in revenge, but others live by it. In the book, Confessions by Kanae Minato, the true feelings of what it is like to lose a child are shown. Teacher, Yuko Moriguchi, at S Middle School in Japan is forced to face her worst nightmare. After her beloved four year old daughter supposedly drowned in the school swimming pool, Moriguchi sensed that was not the full story, and she was right. Yuko was devastated over the loss of her daughter, Manami. But when Moriguchi found a coin purse that she had never seen before with Manami’s belongings, she became suspicious. Back at school, Moriguchi interviewed a few students who she suspected were involved. She named these students A and B while she presented her theory to the entire class. Two of her own students had killed her own child at the school swimming pool with a twisted version of her child’s favorite toy. Did they actually mean to harm Manami? Even if they truly didn’t, Moriguchi still took matters into her
In the book, both Naoki and Shuya were very connected to their mothers even though they did not physically have the chance to, or chose not to. Naoki ended up avoiding his mother because he thought of himself as a disappointment to her, while on the contrary, his mother blamed herself for his actions. Shuya, on the other hand, felt abandoned and replaced by his mother whom he had not seen in four years due to a divorce. Shuya said remorsefully, “I was already a thing of the past, already fading from memory” (Minato 221). Because he had not had the chance to be with his mother for an extended amount of time, he had become disconnected from her and felt that she did not even care enough to confront him about it. It can be inferred that the reason Shuya planned on inflicting harm onto hundreds of kids was to get their parents to feel what his mother did not: the loss of their own