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28. Yong Jing is a small town which had a post office, a town hall, library, school, a hotel with a dozen rooms, restaurants, and the district hospital. It also shows movies in the basketball courts, which Luo and the narrator attend to retell to their village when they return.
29. The woman is Four-Eyes' mother and the narrator talks to her as Luo perhaps due to the fact that he himself had fought her son recently. What she means is that people with knowledge and intelligence will be needed eventually even though the ignorant are superior in the society at this time. She has a positive idea about how all this is going to turn out.
30. It is the Little Seamstress' idea, which is interesting because one would expect Luo or the narrator who are more daring to make this suggestion. This might very well be because of the books that she had been read and the ideas that she had been given by the content of the books.
31. It was pushed off so that they could pretend that the death was accidental, since working animals are not allowed to be slaughtered.
32. His reeducation has given him a new aspect, where he has internalized the traditions of the village, and has become more accustomed to work. However, his reeducation did not really 'work' as he is going to work at a publishing company with his mother as a writer or an intellectual.
33. The function of the 5 sorceresses were basically as enternainment, drama, and just to show that the mother and Four-Eyes are in agreement with the villagers about this tradition. The sorceresses made a great show of destroying the demons with their skit during the celebration, but they simply sat at Luo's bed when he was down with malaria. As a matter of fact, the sorceresses even began to fall asleep while looking over Luo. I believe that a major difference in this was the amount of money given to them.
34. The discovery of the books had a profound effect on him, as he had only seen so many western books before--- when they were being burnt. After so many years of curiosity, he finally has the opportunity to meet the great authors through their books. He expresses anger about people not being allowed to share these masterpieces, and at the people who hid it from him and the narrator.
35. They face the risk of being discovered, and being denounced, which would lead to the destruction of the books and also very severe consequences for the two teenagers.
36. He sees educating the Little Seamstress with the books and making her more sophisticated the purpose of these western novels.
37. Just because Four-Eyes never considered the narrator and Luo friends does not really justify the theft, but it probably made they narrator and Luo feel less guilty about doing this to him.
38. The irony is that he put this mark of his reeducation that symbolizes even more because this tail broke his glasses, with his books, which show that all this reeducation really had no effect on him.