The text itself has been carefully designed blend of present and past. This story is completely described by a first-person be engaged in Japanese studies, "Christian Century" as a young novelist, interspersed with his description of the current field trips to the island of Kyushu in this story, the recollection of his childhood. In particular to certain events mother. However, the link between these two levels is far from fragile. The narrator is the focus of the study of those who succumbed to the pressure behind the seed, and they underwent outgoing apostate Christian behavior in the late century, and later forced underground. Since the 19th century, foreign missionaries back to school, find a few locals resolutely refused to accept the existence of the Christian tradition, the narrator initially be attracted to those who are forced to come here psychology. With their own weaknesses to agree betrayal. However, with the development of the story, the narrator increasingly aware Kakure experience not only with the many contemporary Japanese Christians about trying to reconcile the conflict between their faith and the local culture, but also with his own life experience can not be achieved, as his mother could not achieve the expectations of religious devotion, and his mother had to struggle so hard for him. On one level, the story of the narrator often mentioned similarities between their situation and Kaku Lei situation.
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