he treats social media as a kind of diary, a space for posting short, journalistic stories and a place for thoughts related to current events. This time he described the situation shared with him by the mother of a high school graduate. During her final exam, the high school student described one of the most important contemporary school readings, “Make it ahead of God”. The deducted points prompted her mother to contact Mariusz Szczygieł, Krall’s friend and student.
Mariusz Szczygieł intervened in the case of a high school graduate with Hanna Krall
The high school graduate’s mistake was very simple – she confused morphine with cyanide. The problem, however, is that the agent that Hanna Krall wrote about in her reportage changed depending on the edition. The teacher who assessed the mock exam used an older version of the text. High school graduate – newer. What was the terrifying reality of World War II like? Mariusz Szczygie³ asked the source, i.e. the author of the reportage, who had been his mentor for years. It turned out that both sides may be right, although the version of the student who had the updated text was more faithful to the facts.
In the first editions until the release in “Phantom of Pain” it was cyanide, because that’s what Marek Edelman said and I stuck to it for years. However, there is morphine in the latest edition of “Make it in time for God”, because that’s what Dr. Adina Blady-Szwajger wrote in her memoirs. She knew best because she was the one who put the children to sleep. (…) I decided that I could change the cyanide to morphine. It didn’t occur to me that this would be a problem that Polish teachers would consider… – wrote Hanna Krall to Mariusz Szczygł.
The reporter also added that this is a situation that has the right to happen, because “a reportage will never be a closed story”, and Hanna Krall has a habit of “improving her books for new editions”. It is not known what Polish language teachers, whom the high school graduate was unlucky to meet, will do with this fact. The real secondary school leaving examination itself is yet to come, as the problem concerned the mock test.
Source: Gazeta
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