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Under The Rice Moon Rhiannon Puck Summary

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The theme of “Under the Rice Moon” by Rhiannon Puck is that it’s easier to fathom what someone is feeling when you went through or are going through a similar situation. The sick girl empathized with the cliff swallow, which allowed her to realize it wished to be free from the cramped cage. Both were trapped and longed for freedom. Twice in the story, the bird asked to be let out of the cage. “The cliff swallow coos, ‘How I would like to fly under the rice moon!’ But the boy does not understand.” Each time the swallow was traded, it tried to ask for freedom, failing each time. “In a language the young girl cannot understand, the bird cries.” The reason why the children at the market couldn’t understand the bird’s pleas for release was that

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