hand it over
Quit hiding the jelly beans hand 'em up.Blue Jay · 2016 — 第 5 / 18 章 · 2'50" · B1
Jelly Beans and the Screaming Boy, Explained：take it personal
The jelly beans turn into a confession. 'That's why I'm so sad 'cause you won't give me any jelly beans' is a joke, but the airport story that follows — a screaming four-year-old, all rage and no filter — isn't. 'That's my soul-mate,' one of them says, and the praise underneath is real.
あらすじ
Back at the house, the two split a bag of jelly beans and catch up. One tells a story about a boy at the airport: furious, screaming, stomping, crying without embarrassment. Instead of pity, the reaction is envy — 'that's my soul-mate' — and the talk drifts to how impressive the other's life looks.
注目の表現
soul-materan intotake it personalirate
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このシーンの表現
take it personal
take it as an insult
Jim feels awkward about Lisa's questions, and Amanda tells him not to take it personally.
Don't take it personal, the boss snaps at everyone.
このシーンの他の表現
- soul-mate
a kindred spirit
- ran into
meet by chance
- irate
very angry
- fuckity
a playful strong swear
- Lisa lising
Lisa is analyzing you
このシーンのメモ一覧
41 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
Hand and 'em run together into one sound.
Quit hiding the jelly beans hand 'em up.them — Common in casual speech, not in formal writing.
Quit hiding the jelly beans hand 'em up.give me a bit
Give me some jelly beans, okay?refuses to give me
That's why I'm so sad 'cause you won't give me any jelly beans.one side of me
-Yeah... -So there's a part of me that's...relative clause: The that-clause says which part of her is speaking.
-Yeah... -So there's a part of me that's...board a plane
I was getting on the plane and there was this familyno means to express
and just irate and of course he has no way of expressing any of that except sort of just like...deep in the throat
I mean, he was screaming so loud that tongue was curing to the back of his mouth and tears were just like...result clause: So loud that introduces the result of how loud he screamed.
I mean, he was screaming so loud that tongue was curing to the back of his mouth and tears were just like...Stress so loud to catch the exaggeration.
I mean, he was screaming so loud that tongue was curing to the back of his mouth and tears were just like...recall watching him
And I just remember looking at him and being very jealous.a kindred spirit
After telling the airport story, Amanda calls the crying boy her soul-mate.
You know, that's my soul-mate.a four-year-old kid
Me and that four year old. That's my soul-mate.best not to
I don't know some point we just learn it's better not to do that and...at which moment
I don't know at what point...quite a few of them
You ate a lot of them.kept them all for me
You left me all the pink and purple onesdouble object: Leave someone something means to keep a thing for them.
You left me all the pink and purple onesIn fast speech What's up reduces to 'sup.
What's up?meet by chance
Amanda tells Lisa she is late because she ran into someone.
I'm just telling her i ran into some one.going to — Spoken contraction of going to; avoid it in formal writing.
-She'll ask me who. -She's gonna ask...a playful strong swear — Only with close friends; never in formal settings.
Holy fuckity fuck! Jim, Jim?what you look like
She wants to know how you look.「Jelly Beans and the Screaming Boy」を読み解く
What's really going on
Under the candy and the jokes sits a comparison neither of them wants to name. The jelly beans are a small test of generosity — 'you won't give me any jelly beans' — played as a pout. Then comes the airport boy, so furious he can only scream and stomp, and the verdict is envy: 'And I just remember looking at him and being very jealous.' That envy is the scene's real subject. A child who cries in public has what the adults have trained themselves out of: 'I don't know some point we just learn it's better not to do that.' So when one of them says 'your life is really impressive,' it lands as a compliment and a wound at once — the other is successful, the speaker is the one who learned to hold it in. Even the phone call can't stay outside it: an old friend is mentioned, and 'she wants to know how you look' turns reunion into evidence.
Theme
IdentityComparing lives, one of them envies a child's freedom to feel — and quietly measures who they became.
MemoryAn old closeness resurfaces in small rituals and an airport story that stands in for lost openness.
このチャプターで学べること
- Calling a crying child her soul-mate is half joke, half confession.
- Ran into means meeting someone by chance, never by plan.
- Take it personal warns against reading an insult into things.
- The phone call shifts the scene from memory back to now.
発音のポイント
- hand 'em — Hand and 'em run together into one sound.
- so loud — Stress so loud to catch the exaggeration.
- What's up — In fast speech What's up reduces to 'sup.
That's why I'm so sad 'cause you won't give me any jelly beans.A mock-pout that turns a handful of candy into the supposed reason for sadness.
And I just remember looking at him and being very jealous.The twist of the airport story: the speaker envies a screaming child instead of pitying him.
Me and that four year old. That's my soul-mate.Calling a furious toddler a soul-mate jokes that they're the only one still free to feel everything.
I don't know some point we just learn it's better not to do that and...Adults learn to suppress the open emotion the child is still allowed to show.
It's also little hard 'cause you're really impressive.Praise that doubles as a sting: the other's success makes the speaker's own life harder to bear.
She wants to know how you look.Through the phone, someone back home is already asking about the reunion and what the old friend looks like now.
このシーンについての質問
Why do they make such a big deal about the jelly beans?
It's a game between old friends: the pout about not getting any is affectionate teasing, and leaving the pink and purple ones shows they know each other's favorites.
What does the airport story about the screaming boy mean?
It's a comparison. The boy can cry and scream freely, and the storyteller admits being jealous, because adults learn to hold those feelings in.
Why does one of them call the four-year-old a soul-mate?
Because the child expresses exactly what the adult suppresses. 'Me and that four year old. That's my soul-mate' is half a joke and half a real wish for that freedom.
Who calls during the scene, and why?
Someone from home — a child referred to as 'Miss Elissa' wants ice cream, and a woman nicknamed 'the interrogator' keeps asking who the old friend is.
Why does the other's life seem so impressive?
Both compare where they ended up. One stayed local and works with their hands; the other's life looks bigger, which makes the reunion tender and awkward at once.
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