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Chương 9 · Chapter 9

Trường Trung học Trần Quý Cáp - Hội An

Trần Quý Cáp High School, Hội An

Nguyên văn chương 9 hồi ký của ông Trần Văn Sơn. Bản tiếng Anh dịch sát bên dưới mỗi đoạn. The full chapter as he wrote it, with an English translation under each paragraph.

Chương 10 · Nghỉ học! →
Chapter 10: Leaving school
Mục lục · all chapters

Người trong chuyện · The people

Gia đình họ Trần Văn

The family behind a country boy’s schooling, 1963 – 1964

Only what the chapter says. The tree grows as new chapters arrive. Portraits are drawn from family photos where we have them; the rest are imagined.

Dòng thời gian · Timeline

Lên phố Hội

To school in Hội An, 1963 – 1964, from chapter 9

    Hiện vật · Artifacts

    Ảnh và giấy tờ thật

    Real photographs and documents from the family — tap one to see it full size

    These are the family's own photographs and papers, not illustrations. Location and camera data were removed before publishing.

    Ký ức · Fragments

    Những thứ nhỏ còn nhớ mãi

    Small things never forgotten — tap one to see it in the film

    Thực hiện · Making of

    Cách bộ phim được làm

    A film with no video file

    This chapter’s film is a small JavaScript program, like the chapters before it. Every frame is drawn live on a canvas from paper cut-outs and painted backdrops, with the real portraits of ông bà ngoại taped into the film. The sound effects, from the flooded river to a night-time bird hunt, are synthesised in the browser. The two recorded tracks are the narration, in his own cloned voice for Vietnamese, and the score.

    Câu chuyện · StoryHồi ký Trần Văn Sơn, chương 9 “Trường Trung học Trần Quý Cáp - Hội An”
    Kịch bản, dàn dựng, hoạt hình · Script, direction, animationClaude (Anthropic), hand-coded canvas engine
    Minh hoạ cắt dán · Collage illustrationGoogle Gemini 3 Pro Image, from family photos where we have them
    Giọng kể · NarrationTiếng Việt: giọng thật của ông, tái tạo bằng AI (F5-TTS) từ bản ghi âm ông đọc hồi ký · Vietnamese: his own voice, recreated with F5-TTS from a recording of him reading his memoir. English: Google Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, voice “Algenib”.
    Nhạc · ScoreGoogle Lyria 3 Pro, three cues: đàn bầu, đàn tranh, felt piano, bamboo flute, strings
    Âm thanh · Sound designSynthesised live in the browser (WebAudio)
    Bản dịch · TranslationClaude, kept close to his wording

    Illustrations are an artistic re-imagining, not historical photographs. Names, dates and events come only from his memoir. Ông bà ngoại are drawn from their real portraits and mẹ from her wedding photo; the boy is drawn from the narrator’s earlier sheets.