![]() ![]() As is always the case in fairy/folk tales, the virtuous son is rewarded, while the first two are not. ![]() The fortune teller is asking the sons if they’re are willing to make personal sacrifices and hardships to help their mother achieve her dream. ![]() Now she wants to fulfill that dream before she too dies. Her sons are, for all intents and purposes, men grown her husband is dead. Also, if you look at the brocade as a symbol for the mother’s dreams, or hopes, maybe something that she put aside all those years while raising a family and taking care of a husband, then it makes more sense. She wants this fantasy world shown in her brocade so badly that she’s willing to sacrifice her family? Then herself?īut, then I remembered this story is based on a Chinese folktale (or maybe a fairy tale?) and everything is always exaggerated to the extremes in those. At first, my daughter and I both found the mother in this book to be an absurd, selfish woman. ![]()
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