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39. The themes that captivated the boys the most were women and love, and it opened up a new world for them, because they had not known previously about these things portrayed the way they are in the Western novels.
40. The theme of taking independent action as an individual attracted the narrator greatly as it had never even come across his mind that this would be possible, seeing as he lived during a time when all individuality was erased and everyone did everything for the common good and everybody was equal.
41. The significance in his adventures is that Luo, who is dead afraid of heights, was willing to go across the precarious ridge to reach the Little Seamstress to educate her, which shows how highly he values converting the Little Seamstress into an educated woman as well as going to see her. The raven is always there to meet him, as though he is expected to go and he has an obligation to be there each morning. Then, after Luo had crossed the ridge, the raven's duty is over and it flies away.
42. The nightmare foreshadows that in the furture, they will be separated by something very very abrupt, like the way they are separated in the nightmare by the sudden death of the Little Seamstress.
43. He asks Luo to fix his tooth with the piece of tin that he'd bought. This tells us that the cultural revolution has it's disadvantages, and the banned knowledge is very important sometimes to even the most zealous supporters of the revolution.
44. His reason is so that he could listen to their stories, but Ma suspects that he wants to know his daughter's potential son in law better. Ma surprisingly tells him one of the western novels that he had read recently when the tailor requests them to tell him a story.
45. He protests against the story because it has a count in it, which means that it must be a revolutionary story. He insists that the narrator go with him to the Social Secuities office, and the narrator hints for Luo to keep the books hidden before he has to go. Then he walks towards the headman attempting to feign confidence. The headman's alternative was to blackmail them to fix his tooth, which Luo agrees to do to save Ma.