Unit - 1
The Loving Mother - Summary
Shoji Sakota was pharmacy in Japan .who live in the building
where he had a drug store because his wife had died many years ago .As he lived
in same building he sometimes worked in the drug store late as night .One
stormy night while he was preparing annual business report as it was the end of
the year, he heard a knock on the door .He ignored it and worked continuously.
He heard the knock again thought it was caused due to wind. When he heard the
knock for the third time, that was louder than before, he thought it was
emergency. He went to the door, lifted the shade and put on the outside who
seemed very nervous. He thought it might be the trick of women to rob him, so
he said the shop had been closed and said to come on next morning. When she
requested him to give something for her baby and said that was dying, he opens
the door.
The women for an ame on the stick. She seemed abnormally
pale she had shoulder length hair and she was wearing simple kimono that seem
it had been worn to bed. He gave her an ame and paying money for it, she went
quickly. Sakota stops working and thought about the woman. He found the woman
quite mysterious. Her eye shows that she was from another world. The same thing
repeated for another two nights. He wanted to ask her why she had not come on
the day time but forgot when she was there. One night he asks his friend to
take the photo of the woman to look at her face clearly. When she came again
his friend took a photograph hiding behind the door, to their surprise the
woman was not seen though they had seen her through the lens of camera. They
decided to follow her if she came again.
When she came again they followed after she went away from
the store. She didn’t mind them coming after her. After walking for some time
she enters the building, climbing the third floor and disappears. They saw a
door open and went inside. There in the room they saw a baby licking the ame.
There was the person who was sleeping beside the baby. They were surprised to
see the woman sleeping so fast. They thought she was acting of sleeping. Sakota
went closer to her and touched her body, she didn’t move. She was cold and
lifeless. They found that she had died many days ago…
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