“What makes a home?” A lifelong scar.
This story follows a brother and sister abandoned by their parents as children, left without a care. Their grandfather, uncles, aunts, and countless other relatives passed them around and shoved them from one place to another. In the end, their aunt raised the two children in harsh conditions until they grew up.
Hanhans father, “Little Ear,” was born unable to hear in his right ear. He isn’t stupid, and he lives more carefree than anyone. He is the very picture of ingratitude, and the sort who knows how to play the victim.
“He has his own faults to blame for his misfortune” describes him perfectly.
Their biological mother was uneducated. You might call her simple, but she wasn’t stupid at all. She had a mind of her own, was restless, and could start another family at any time.
“Fickle and promiscuous” describes her perfectly.
In a word, their parents can be summed up like this: They gave them life, and that was all they cared to do.
They were unfit to be decent people, let alone parents.
Hanhans has a younger biological brother. Their parents divorced when the siblings were little and never looked after them. Their aunt, their father’s second sister, and her husband often argued and fought. She was hot-tempered, but softhearted too, sharp-tongued with a heart of gold. The burden of the family also shaped her fierce personality.
This is a story full of human kindness and coldness, with far too much helplessness and sorrow.
Some people spend their childhood healing throughout their lives, while others spend their entire lives healing from childhood.
If you bring a child into the world but don’t raise them, how can you call it a home? If you raise a child you didn’t give birth to, what does a home mean to them?
