『あおいめとちゃいろのめ』 子供のためのオーディオブック
英語で読める “Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes” の絵本
Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes
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It was Adam's first day of school. His family had recently moved to New York City from a small town in Florida, and Adam was nervous. The big city was very different from the place where he had lived before. He did not want to go to school because he did not know what to expect. When Adam went into his classroom, he met his teacher, Mrs. Eliot. She was very kind. She said, “Welcome to your new school, Adam! You can make a lot of friends here.” Adam noticed that the students looked different from what he was used to in Florida. At his school in Florida, there were some African American kids, and some kids from Puerto Rico. But here, there were many students with many different skin colors. They were louder here, too. But they were very friendly.
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When the bell rang to begin the class, Mrs. Eliot had all the students line up. She looked at each student’s face, and then told those students to go to the left side of the room, or the right side. When Mrs. Eliot was finished, many of the students were on the left side, and some others were on the right side. Mrs. Eliot said, “Do you know why I divided you this way?” The children all looked at each other. There were boys and girls on both sides of the room, so that was not the reason. Also, there were taller students and shorter students on both sides of the room. Then, Adam noticed. He said, “All of us on the right side have blue eyes!” Mrs. Eliot said, “That’s right, Adam. Very good! The students on the right side have blue eyes, and the students on the left side have brown eyes.”
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Mrs. Eliot gave ugly, brown scarves to the blue-eyed students. She said, “You can put these scarves on those brown-eyed students. That way, it will be easy for us to see who doesn’t belong with the blue-eyed group. These brown-eyed students should not spend time with the blue-eyed students.” Adam asked, “Why can’t we spend time with the brown-eyed students?” Mrs. Eliot looked at Adam. She kindly said, “That’s a very good question! And the answer is that people with blue eyes are better than people with brown eyes.”
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That day, Mrs. Eliot treated the blue-eyed students better than she did the brown-eyed students. The blue-eyed students got extra food during lunch. They had more time to play during recess. And only the blue-eyed students were allowed to play on the new playground equipment. The brown-eyed students did not have anything nice. They could not play with the good toys. They could not eat any extra food. And they were not praised by Mrs. Eliot.
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Some of the brown-eyed students complained. But Mrs. Eliot told them that scientists had proved that blue-eyed children were better than brown-eyed children. She said, “Because it’s scientific, you should just accept that blue-eyed students are better than brown-eyed students.” For the rest of the day, Mrs. Eliot spent more time with the blue-eyed students. She helped them more. She praised them more. And she let them have more freedom.
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Mrs. Eliot did not help the brown-eyed students very much. And if they made mistakes, she was not friendly. She would say things like, “Blue-eyed students do not make mistakes like that.” Or she would say, “You brown-eyed students need to stay away from the blue-eyed students because you are not good enough to play with them.”
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During art, a brown-eyed girl had a blue crayon that Adam wanted to use. So, Adam went to the brown-eyed girl, and he took the crayon. The brown-eyed girl grabbed the crayon back from Adam. That’s when Adam said, “You are a stupid brown-eye! Give me the crayon!” When Mrs. Eliot heard the two children yelling, she went over to help. When the brown-eyed girl told her that Adam had taken her crayon, Mrs. Eliot said, “Well, I think you should let Adam use the crayon.” Mrs. Eliot made the brown-eyed girl give her pretty blue crayon to Adam. Then, Mrs. Eliot gave the girl an ugly gray crayon that was very small. She said, “You can have this crayon.”
