![]() Towards the end, she was weak, groggy from medicines, and could not go for walks with him as before. He ‘knows’ that this is because he could not do his rituals in school and so could not protect her. He remembers his mother taking him for walks and teaching him about plants, he remembers her kindling his interest in books, and when he is in school, he gets the news that she died. It is touching from almost the beginning, with David ‘trying to prevent’ his mother dying by making sure that he always knocks on doors even times and other ‘tricks’.Īs she grows weak, he reads aloud to her from the childhood books that she read to him in the past. This is about a boy, David, who lost his mother to a terrible disease. Overall, what impression does it create? Read on to find out. ![]() It gets preachy too, but it is done in a way that is not cloying but certainly the preachy parts are not subtle. ![]() This starts out like a poignant family drama and then morphs into a kind of a fairytale based tale, albeit with some twists. ![]()
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