The Loving Mother

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                                 The Loving Mother
Summary
      The Loving Mother is a supernatural story taken from Hokkaido island, northern Japan. This story deals with frequent apparition of a dead mother to a Pharmacist in order to carry out motherly responsibility even after her death.
       Shoji Sakota was a pharmacist in Sapporo City, Hokkaido island, Northern Japan. As his wife had passed away several years earlier, he used to live alone in a small apartment behind his drug store.
        In a stormy night of 1964, Shoji Sakota was preparing his annual business report till midnight. After door of his pharmacy had been knocked repeatedly for three times, he looked out through the window. There was a young woman standing at the window. At first, he thought that it was some kind of trick to rob him. SO, he did not open the door. But the request of woman and her body posture made him think that she might of needed some medicine for her baby in emergency. Therefore, he opened the door and let her come in. The woman was very thin with abnormally light skin and unmanaged hair. To his great surprise, she asked for an ame on a stick. He was even more surprised seeing the eyes of the woman because they were not simply looking at him, they were looking through him. After receiving what she requested for, she paid few cents for it and went out.
     After the woman went, Shoji Sakota could not continue working with his annual business report because he was very tired and he was unable to keep the image of the woman out of his mind.
      The same woman came for two more nights exactly at the same time making identical request. After she went out taking an ame on the third night, Shoji Sakota asked photographer friend to take the pictures of the woman if she came on the fourth night too. As they had expected, the woman if she came on the fourth night and went out as usual this time Shoji Sakota was pleased because he would be able to know something more about her studying her pictures. But to their great surprise, the pictures showed all the objects of the pharmacy but not the woman. They told nobody about it and decided to follow her if she came on the fifth night.
      O the fifth night, Shoji Sakota and his friend started following the woman after she returned from the pharmacy. The woman easily noticed that she was being followed but did not mind it. Instead, she acted as though she wanted to show them where she was going. She led them into an old apartment building upto its third floor and disappeared through at door at the end of a dark and narrow hallway. As they entered the room, they saw a baby of about eight or nine months old licking an ame on a stick. There was also a woman beside the baby appearing to be asleep. At first, Shoji Sakota thought that she was pretending to be asleep, but when he examined her more closely, he found her to have been dead for a number of days.
           This story is basically about a woman who keeps showering her baby with love and care even after her death. The events described in this story cannot take place in the real life and are beyond the explanation of science. So, 'The Loving Mother' is a supernatural story.

Questions
1.   If you had been Mr. Sakota, do you think you would have been afraid to let this woman in at midnight? Explain.
    I think I would not be afraid to let this woman in at midnight because the woman in at midnight because the woman was trying to get medicine for her child and also a case of emergency so I would help the woman and give the medicine which are required.

2.   If Mr. Sakota had asked the woman why she came at midnight, what do you think she would have answered?
    If Mr. Sakota had asked the woman why she came at midnight, she would have answered that she was busy with the household as well as other work in the day time so she could not fulfill the demand of her child and her house is so far that it would take few hours to reach her.

3.   What do you think Mr. Sakota meant when he said the women's eyes looked like they belonged to someone from another word?
     When he said the woman's eyes looked like they belonged to someone from another world. I think he meant that the eyes of the women was not looking towards Mr. Sakota it was penetrating through him and eyes of the women may not be similar to the ordinary person.

4.   Do you think taking a picture of the woman was a good idea? Explain.
   Yes , I think taking a picture of the woman was a good idea because from the picture he can study the women and can get more information about the woman


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