Question

what do you think is.meant by the end of the 3rd pargraph beginning with, "only a father in that kind of pain could take a boy's shoe in winter only a gather, flesh and bone, could burn a som with smoking end of a coal shovel"

Answer 1

Jun Do's perception of relationships highlights the misery in the world around him. He tells himself stories to account for his undeserved suffering, giving the senseless pain he feels a logical source. The denial of his orphanhood is ultimately a rejection of the needless anguish caused by a ruthless state.