Part 2, I'm Sorry Hyong-Chol, Section 2, p. 79 - 112 Summary

Narration describes how, when Hyong-chol was a child, Father brought home an attractive woman much younger than Mom who left shortly afterwards. In spite of the woman's attempts to make friends with him and his siblings, Hyong-chol repeatedly rejected her, eventually tearfully pleading with Mom to come home. She agrees, chasing both Father and the woman out of the house. Later that year, Father returned, and when he does, Mom fed him as usual, "as if Father had left that morning and had come back at night, instead of having left in the summer and returned sheepishly in the bitter cold of winter." In the aftermath of Father's return, Mom makes sure Hyong-chol gets the best and the most food, has all the time he needs to study, and in general...