Why Does Kiyoshi believe Obaban is a substitute for his mom?
I think that Kiyoshi believes Obaban is a substitute for his mom because his mother is very superstitious. I think that he feels like Obaban is living the life that his own mother should be living. Kiyoshi's mother had so many different superstitions, like only scooping out the rice twice from the bowl and putting it into the individual bowl, because she believed that double scooping protected the family from seeing a second mother, and that means that your first mother wont die or run away or leave. she also believed that number 4 was bad luck because it is pronounced "shi," which meant four or death.This brings up when her husband turned 42 she was very worried because 42 was pronounced "shi-ni" which had the same sound as "shi-ni-iku" which means to go to die. But the father didn't believe in any of those superstitions. One of her main superstitions were, that she thought she was a substitute for someone else's sin.
Kiyoshi's mother is in the hospital due to fainting and is sick from having all her teeth pulled out. So Kiyoshi decides to go get Obaban whom is a very close family friend. While Kiyoshi's mother is in the hospital father is home taking care of chores and all that stuff. After a while with mother still being sick in the hospital, father shows up at Kiyoshi's school to tell him something. Kyioshi is very nervous at this point because his father never comes to his school and is worried that the news might be about his mother. Come to find out that it wasn't his mother it was Obaban who died of a stroke! At that moment he was so happy because he believed that Obaban was the substitute for his mothers death. Crazy!
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Kiyoshi believe that his grandmother was a substitution because she died and his mother was still alive. Since his mother is soo superstititous he taught that everything that is happening cause from the things that were done.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Obaban was difintely kiyoshi' mom substitute. His mother was given a sceond chance.
ReplyDeleteI what koyoshi and the mother would have thought if obaban would have never come and visited but still died, would they still think she was a substitue without knowledge of koyishs mother being sick?
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