What is the author trying to say? Let's try a Japanese language test

The composition of the conflict between the interpretation led by a Japanese teacher and the free interpretation of students
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I have received many likes on this article. I reread it. I felt happy, thinking that perhaps I was able to gain the empathy of many people. I am grateful. Thank you very much!

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Today, let's use this article to take a Japanese language test.

Question:
In this article, what was the author trying to say? Answer in 50 characters or less.

Fans of Mako-san's note, if you would like, please reread this article, take a moment to think and write down your answer, and then read the text below this point. The author, of course, is me.

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Those who are excellent at Japanese language tests must have found this an easy question. After all, it's just about reading the author's feelings from the text. Now, let's have an excellent student, ChatGPT-kun, try to solve this problem as well.

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Unfortunately, ChatGPT's answers are all just "summaries." Certainly, if asked "what is the author trying to say?", it can be taken as a request to summarize concisely, or it can be taken as a request to read between the lines to find what is really meant.

Let's grade ChatGPT-kun's answers.
1 Summary answer: Incorrect because it is not what the author wants to say
2 Summary answer: Incorrect because it is not what the author wants to say
3 Summary answer: Incorrect because it is not what the author wants to say
4 Summary answer: Incorrect because it is not what the author wants to say
5 Reading between the lines answer: Incorrect because it is not what the author wants to say

Naturally, even if you narrow it down to one, that is also incorrect.

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Now, here is the correct answer.

Since I am the author, I will write what I meant to say in this article. In other words, this is the correct answer.

Correct answer -> My own self-preservation

In addition, the following answers will also be given points.
To maintain self-esteem
To write for self-satisfaction
To gain the joy of verbalizing dissatisfaction
I want to be acknowledged too

I will explain the correct answer from me, the author.
The reason I wanted to say 'my own self-preservation' is that I have always been plagued by the difficulties of not being good at understanding others' feelings and the negative aspects of holding opinions that are not in the majority. I wanted to say that there are people like me, and I wanted my existence to be seen.

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I wrote it this way because Japanese language education assumes there is only one correct answer to what the author is trying to say.

If I were a great writer like Osamu Dazai, and I assumed that the Japan Japanese Language Textbook Selection Association (I don't know if that exists) asked to include this blog post in a textbook,

Question: What is the author trying to say in this text?
Correct answer: The author's self-preservation

Students who were marked wrong on this question would probably object.

They might say things like,
Isn't that the purpose, not what they want to say?
Isn't that the background?
Isn't that the reason?
That doesn't convey what they want to say at all

The quote from the first two lines of the article used for this problem clearly states 'want to say'. It's a problem that makes you read the hidden side of the author's 'what they want to say', which is that it should be okay to have multiple interpretations.

You probably want to complain about the question text, and you probably think that the author isn't actually writing this for the sake of self-preservation.

No, I am the author.

Since it's what I, the author, want to say, that is the correct answer.
You're thinking 'Huh?', right?

In the article I used for this question, did you understand my feeling of dissatisfaction when I was forced by my Japanese teacher to read it a certain way because 'the author meant this'?

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Reading it again, it's still a venomous piece, and I laughed even though I wrote it myself. On the other hand, when I am calm, I realize I am twisting interpretations to be favorable to my incapable self, and writing about'self-preservation'in a roundabout way.

Even if what I want to say is hard to convey, and no matter how it is received, if it leads to some kind of realization in the reader's heart, then I am okay with that. After all, this is a blog I write for myself.

I believe that note is a medium where I maintain my self-preservation by writing down my own interpretations to boost my self-esteem, aligned with twisted logic.

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Finally, the Japanese teacher, following the curriculum guidelines, explained to the students that this answer was "for self-preservation." Here is the reaction of one of the students, ChatGPT.

As expected, he's in a bad mood, saying he can't read that answer. He's making excuses in a calm, logical tone. He must be angry about getting a zero on the test, lol.

In any case, it means what I wanted to say didn't get across. In the first place, this is a self-indulgent blog and I wasn't even trying to convey anything, so setting this as a test question is invalid, lol.