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Yoshiko Uchida The Wise Old Woman Analysis
In The Wise Old Woman by Yoshiko Uchida there is a cruel young lord that made a rule that when you turn 71 you are to be sent to the mountains to die. The farmers mother just turned 71. The farmer refuses to leave her up there and brings here back down. Then Lord Higa comes to the village. He gives three riddles for the people to solve and the only one that can is the farmers mother. She solves the riddles saving the village. Throughout the story the boy and the mother make sacrifices for one another proving family comes first.
My first piece of evidence is that The Wise Old Woman marked the way back down for her son. As she was going up the hill she was marking the way back down for her son so he would not get lost. She understood that it

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