In Chapter
One, Tree-ear meets a farmer as he rummages among the village's rubbish heaps for scraps of
food. The farmer is carrying a wooden-straw container in a jiggeh filled
with rice. A jiggeh is an open-framed backpack fashioned from
branches.
As the farmer walks along, rice trickles out from a small hole in
the straw box. Tree-ear watches him with abiding interest but great ambivalence. His conscience
tells him that he should alert the farmer to his problem. At the same time, if he refrains from
speaking, the...
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