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(1994–1995)

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"If you feel pity about me, give me money!"
Reginay_4042 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The key to the success of this drama is the sense of shock created by the screenwriters. They made a seemingly innocent elementary student say the famous line: "If you feel pity about me, give me money!"

I used to wonder if a person had been facing all types of evilness in this world from birth, what kind of person he would become? The protagonist of "The Homeless Child" is a guess to answer this question. Indeed, in the first few episodes, she behaved in a terrible manner: first steals the money, then acts to deceive the teacher, lets the dog bite the teacher when exposed, and sets the house on fire in order to get his adoptive father into the jail. But behind these behaviors is just a little girl who wants to make money to pay for the surgery of her sick mother. As a primary school student, she deals with her painful life better compare to adults.

Regardless of the first or the second season, in "Homeless Children", the character's good and evil can be changed because of profits and desire. For example, the kind-hearted male teacher who was deceived by the hostess turned into a profit-seeking person in the end. He even wanted to blame the protagonist for committing a crime in order to protect himself, and eventually died for his desire.

I believe the screenwriters intentionally wrote the script from a kid's view. The drama gathers all the creepy, strange and special people you that can find: a doctor without a license who make money through doing surgeries, an artist who had a strange relationship with his daughter, a family of thieves and an uncle who would kill his sister, more like a fantasy of the dark side of the world, instead of a realistic depiction.

I love the end so much. After all the people around her leave her, she and her dog are homeless again. The crowd surrounds her because they are shocked by her action of getting food from the dustbin and starts to talk about how poor she is. She stands up and repeats that famous line again with her special strength: "If you feel pity about me, give me money!"
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