Thus, instead of accusing Polly, I started sympathizing with her. However, later, it became obvious that the woman’s freedom-loving nature could not let her act differently. For me, it was a very sad point when I realized that Polly had gone. The boy, whose name was still Deming at that point, was very fond of having walks with his only close person in the whole world and of having conversations with her. The boy was so attached to his mother that he even lied about a school assignment so that she would leave work earlier and he could spend some extra time with her (Ko 3). For me, it was impossible to understand why Polly had not taken her child with her or at least had not talked to him about it or left a note. The first thing that stroke me when reading was that the mother abandoned her son and started pursuing her life-long dream of living a better life and traveling. Ultimately, The Leavers is a story of how tragic one’s life can be when one does not know how to settle down and cannot realize where he or she belongs. Many settings are described throughout the book: home and school, the Bronx and upstate New York, and Fuzhou and Beijing. Two people are central speakers in The Leavers: Daniel, or Deming, and Polly, or Peilan. One of the hooks the author uses to make the book unusual is the number of narrators and the organization of their accounts.
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