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The story The Loving Mother is about a mother’s love for her child. It talks about how a mother’s spirit is not in peace after leaving behind a small child. Even after death, the mother comes back to the child in order to look after her. Since it talks about spirit and ghost it is a supernatural story.
The story The Loving Mother is about a mother’s love for her child. It talks about how a mother’s spirit is not in peace after leaving behind a small child. Even after death, the mother comes back to the child in order to look after her. Since it talks about spirit and ghost it is a supernatural story.Shoji Sakota is a pharmacist in Sapporo, a city in the northern part of Japan. He lives alone in an apartment behind the drugstore. His wife has died earlier. The building being the same he sometimes works till late. One stormy night Shoji Sakota is busy preparing his annual business report. At about midnight there is a knock at the door. He ignores the knock and goes back to his work. When there is s knock for the second time he thinks it could be the wind. The knock is louder next time and he goes towards the door thinking that it could be an emergency. He turns on the light and is surprised to see a young woman standing there. Thinking that it might be a trick to rob him he doesn’t open the door. Rather, he says that the pharmacy will be opened at 8 o’clock the next morning.
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The Loving Mother is a ghost story, in which we find the spirit (ghost) of a mother trying to save the life of her child by leading some people to her apartment and thus giving the information that there was a living baby there.
Mr. Shoji Sakota was a pharmacist in Japan. one winter midnight he was busy the records of the year, when there was a knock at the door. At first he tried to avoid it. But when the knock persisted, he thought to open the door.
But before that he peeped out through the window of the door, he found that a lady was standing there. At first he thought that it might be a trick to rob him, and so he did not want to open the door. But later he opened the door thinking that it might be some emergency.
She was a very strange looking woman who seemed to have come from another world. She asked only an ame for her child. Shoji was surprised at it because ame is not any medicine. It is only a type nutritious sweet. She could have waited till next morning to buy it.
She came next two more nights also with the same demand. On the fourth night, he called a friend in his shop and he took photographs of the lady when she came again. But it was strange that when the photographs were developed, there was no image of the woman in any of the snaps.
The next night, again when she came, Sakota and his friend followed the woman up to her apartment.
There in the room they found a baby sucking the same ame which the woman had just brought, and the same woman appeared to be sleeping there. When Mr. Sakota came near her, he found that she was dead and she had been dead for several days.
Thus it was not the woman, it was her ghost who used to come to the pharmacy for an ame for her child.
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Explanation:
A. Genre: Ghost Story
B. The two major themes of this story are :
1. Mother's love
2. Alienation of people in the modern society. It was not only for an ame that the mother used to go to the pharmacist, she also wanted to make it known somebody that she had passed away leaving her child behind her. In fact nobody had even known or noticed that a lady had passed away and a baby was there, this is the alienation people feel in cities in the prsent societies.