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Title:The Adopted Baby Sparrows

Author:Sima Zhong-yuan

No. of Item:7 pages

Dimension:26.7*39cm

Keyword:Sima Zhong-yuan | Short story

Description:The narrator describes that one day an elderly couple whose grown-up children have left home find two injured baby sparrows in their courtyard and decide to take them in. At first, they keep them inside the house to shield them from the rain, but they suddenly have a better idea—keeping them outside the house so that the mother bird can bring worms to feed them as nutrients they need to recover. In the end, one of them dies, but the other one restores its health again and flies back to the sky with its mother. This story per se is a social satire, and the baby sparrows serve as a metaphor to ironize the social reality that stolen infants are sold for money, a prevalent practice at the time.

主要名稱:劫嬰記

成文日期:民國71年05月06日

類別:手稿

作者:司馬中原

原件與否:原件

藏品層次:單件

數量單位:7頁

尺寸大小(長*寬*高):26.7*39cm

數位化類別:影像(圖片)

是否數位化:是

關鍵詞:司馬中原│短篇小說

典藏單位:國立臺灣文學館

摘要:作者描述一對育有子女的年老夫妻，一日不經意的收養了兩隻受傷的麻雀。原先不知道該如何餵食牠們，只將牠們養在室內，後來突然想通，才將牠們養在室外，使其母親可以啣蟲來餵食，這才使得牠們能夠日漸進食，身體逐漸康癒。不過其中他們所豢養的一隻麻雀不幸死去，但另一隻卻得以重生與母親同歸天空遨翔。而文中藉由這一對遭受劫難的麻雀，亦興起了描述者對於社會販嬰現況的慨嘆。（文/高鈺昌）

其他說明:首頁的前記註明：原名為〈竊嬰記〉，但因聯合副刊的琦君改為〈劫嬰記〉，故而改名，使其具有遭劫難的嬰孩的意涵。

印記/簽名:首頁附有作者簽名：司馬中原

提供者:司馬中原

登錄號:NMTL20070340007

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