He ran back to the drugstore. He met the proprietor. “I’ll pay whatever you ask if you’ll sell me only one vial!
He's become so desperate not to lose his mother again he's doing what he knows he shouldn't
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“From now on you’re going to be the young master in this house. If you do what f new mommy and daddy say, the world is yours. All right?”
What could this mean? At this point I have no idea where the story is going.
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Tori then burst into tears. He was eight years old at the time
this is quite surprising, I was under the assumption Tori would be older
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At last Tŏkchae understood, and began crawling through the weeds.
this was the ending i was hoping for
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“You son of a ! How many people have you killed so far?”
why would the farmers collective be involved in killing people?
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the old grandfather with the wen
what is a wen?
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To me the swaying of her head was not “I don’t know, I don’t know” Rather, it seemed more like “Daughter, there’s nothing wrong with T’aeshik, really nothing at all. What sin of ours could be so great that even that boy would have to suffer for it?
This is interesting, as it cannot really be based on anything other than a complete guess
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This realization saddened me to tears.
This seems like a huge jump in emotion, maybe a sign that something bigger is bothering her more than she thought?
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his wife when he left her behind in the North
This helps set the time period of when this was set and could be an important detail later on.
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Perhaps it was this rootlessness that made him want to see Old Hwang again. The men had one day off a week. That day was boring and frustrating for him. He wasn’t particularly drawn to drinking or gambling.
This part also confused me, was it before he was married? After? Before the meeting he had with Hwang that was mentioned earlier?
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When Mansŏk had appeared one night out of the darkness at a drinking house near the ferry, three years after the fighting ended, Old Hwang was as startled as if he had seen a ghost.
It wasn't until I finished the story that I realized this scene was also in the past. While reading it, I had thought this was in the present time after dropping his son at the orphanage.
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“Why do you still live alone, Mr. Ch’ŏn? Aren’t you lonely?”
This is the first of many times in the story where the setting abruptly changes
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