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Chương 26 · Chapter 26
The pain of losing a child
Nguyên văn chương 26 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 27 · Gà trống nuôi con →
Chapter 27: A father raising his son
Mục lục · all chapters
Người trong chuyện · The people
Remembering Quỳnh Mai
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
From chapter 26
Hiện vật · Artifacts
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
Small things never forgotten — tap one to see it in the film
Thực hiện · Making of
A film with no video file
This chapter’s film is a small JavaScript program, like the chapters before it. It is deliberately quiet: few sound effects, a slow pace, and the mother’s own words set by hand on paper. The two recorded tracks are the narration, in his own cloned voice for Vietnamese, and the score.
| Câu chuyện · Story | Hồi ký Trần Văn Sơn, chương 26 “Nỗi đau mất con” |
| Kịch bản, dàn dựng, hoạt hình · Script, direction, animation | Claude (Anthropic), hand-coded canvas engine |
| Minh hoạ cắt dán · Collage illustration | Google Gemini 3 Pro Image, from family photos where we have them |
| Giọng kể · Narration | Tiếng 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 · Score | Google Lyria 3 Pro, two cues: đàn bầu, đàn tranh, felt piano, bamboo flute, strings |
| Âm thanh · Sound design | Synthesised live in the browser (WebAudio) |
| Bản dịch · Translation | Claude, kept close to his wording |
This chapter tells of the death of the family’s first child. The film does not depict it; it shows only an altar, a candle and the mother’s poem. The poem lines on screen are quoted from the memoir. Illustrations are an artistic re-imagining; the couple are drawn from their wedding photo.