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The Dawn Wall · 2017 — 第 1 / 24 章 · 3'22" · B2

Tommy's Father Toughens Him Up, Explained：larger than life

A reporter asks why Tommy Caldwell would risk everything on the Dawn Wall, and the answer turns out to be his childhood. Told he was slow and would never learn, he was raised by a father who believed that hardship could be rephrased as growth: "He was loving, but he definitely let me suffer."

あらすじ

The film cuts from Tommy Caldwell at base camp on El Capitan to the story of his childhood. As a boy he was slow, shy and labelled by teachers as unable to learn. His father, a bodybuilder and climber, took him into the mountains to toughen him up, and Tommy grew up believing that hardship was simply growth in disguise.

Parents & kidsStorytellingExplainingConfessingParent & childB2mediumamericanClean
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注目の表現

the bottom linefree climblarger than lifetoughen up

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このシーンの表現

larger than life

grander than an ordinary person

The phrase caps a portrait of a huge, adventurous father seen through a son's eyes.

Her grandfather was a larger than life figure in the small town.

このシーンの他の表現

  • the bottom line

    the key point

  • free climb

    climb without the rope helping you up

  • toughen up

    make someone mentally hard

  • mentally retarded

    an outdated, offensive label

  • deal with adversity

    handle hard times

このシーンのメモ一覧

39 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

表現 · A2How's it going

how are things

'How's it going up there?'
発音going up

Link going and up, and up there often fuses in fast speech.

'How's it going up there?'
表現 · A2how high up

how far up

'How high up are you guys right now?'
表現 · B1base camp

main staging camp

We are about 1,200 feet up the wall at our base camp.
発音feet up the

The t in feet links into up, sounding like fee-dup.

We are about 1,200 feet up the wall at our base camp.
表現 · B1the point of something

the purpose of something

'What's the point of all this for you?'
表現 · B2nerve-racking

stressful, nerve-wracking

Inch by nerve-racking inch, using only their fingertips to grasp razor sharp edges.
表現 · B1straight-up

going straight up

3,000 feet of straight-up granite.
表現 · B1be watched by the world

seen by everyone

A climb watched by the world.
表現 · B2capture someone's attention

made the world take notice

These guys have captured the world's attention.
表現 · B1make history

do something historic

They're trying to make history.
表現 · A2as a kid

when someone was young

As a kid, Tommy was slow at everything.
表現 · B1have difficulty doing something

struggle with something

He had a lot of difficulty in school.
表現 · B2developmentally delayed

slow to develop

I was developmentally delayed through... probably still.
表現 · B1the symbol of something

the very image of something

But meanwhile, my dad was, like, the symbol of a man.
スラング · A2dude

guy, man — Casual for a man; not for formal settings.

He was this big bodybuilder dude and mountain climber.
表現 · A2way behind

far behind

He was way behind.
スラング · A2way

far, much — Spoken intensifier; use far in formal writing.

He was way behind.
文法 · B1Didn't crawl until

not until: Not until means something did not happen before that point.

Didn't crawl until he was over two.
文法 · B2the best way to prepare this fragile little kid for the world was to toughen him up

infinitive complement: The linking verb was takes an infinitive that restates the subject.

I think my dad felt the best way to prepare this fragile little kid for the world was to toughen him up a little bit.
表現 · B1take someone on something

bring someone along on something

So he took me on all these adventures.
発音strap on

The p in strap runs into on, almost one word.

Three years old, strap on the skis.
スラング · B1craziest

wildest — Hyperbolic and casual, common between friends.

Some of the craziest climbing stunts you could ever do, and he did it with a six-year-old.
表現 · C1rephrase something as something

restate something as something

He basically took hardship and rephrased it as growth.
表現 · A2in someone's mind

in someone's thoughts

The word that was in my mind was resilience.
文法 · B2one of the best gifts you can give your kid

relative clause: The clause you can give your kid modifies gifts without an explicit that.

It seems to me one of the best gifts you can give your kid is an ability to deal with adversity.

「Tommy's Father Toughens Him Up」を読み解く

What's really going on

The childhood passages are the film's real argument. Tommy's climb is not only about a wall; it is about a boy who was told he would never learn and a father who answered by taking him into blizzards. The parents describe a man who "basically took hardship and rephrased it as growth," and Tommy gives the same idea a harder edge: "He was loving, but he definitely let me suffer." The film does not settle whether that was kindness or cruelty; it just shows where the resilience came from. The wall, in the end, is the childhood test repeated at 3,000 feet.

Theme

ParenthoodTommy's father turns every adventure into a lesson, raising his son through hardship on purpose.
Coming of ageA boy told he would never learn becomes the climber willing to suffer the hardest wall.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A cliff can be called home when you live on it for days.
  • The film measures a man by the childhood that hardened him.
  • Free climbing keeps the rope for safety, never for progress.
  • A strict father is remembered with both love and pain.

発音のポイント

  • going up — Link going and up, and up there often fuses in fast speech.
  • feet up the — The t in feet links into up, sounding like fee-dup.
  • strap on — The p in strap runs into on, almost one word.
This has been our home for nine days now.

A casual line from base camp that makes the scale real: nine days already spent living on the wall.

No one has ever free-climbed the Dawn Wall.

The premise of the film: the climb is unprecedented, so success has no model to follow.

As a kid, Tommy was slow at everything.

The first note of the childhood story: the man attempting the world's hardest climb started far behind.

He basically took hardship and rephrased it as growth.

The parents' summary of the father's philosophy: pain was reframed as development.

He was loving, but he definitely let me suffer.

Tommy's own verdict, holding affection and hardship together without excusing either.

The word that was in my mind was resilience.

The single word that explains both the childhood and the climb.

It seems to me one of the best gifts you can give your kid is an ability to deal with adversity.

The father's defence of his methods, stated as a gift rather than a lesson.

このシーンについての質問

Why was Tommy's childhood so harsh?

His father believed that a fragile, shy boy needed to be toughened up, so he took him skiing, camping and climbing from a very young age.

What did Tommy's teachers say about him?

They told his parents he was mentally retarded and would never learn, which makes his later achievements as an elite climber the point of the story.

Did Tommy resent his father?

The film leaves it open. Tommy says his father was loving even while he let him suffer, so the feeling is gratitude mixed with old pain.

What does 'free climb' mean?

It means climbing without using the rope to help you move up; the rope is only there to catch a fall. On the Dawn Wall it also means days of living on the rock.

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