At The Western Palace Chapter Summary

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In the chapter, “At the Western Palace”, the reader got a detailed glimpse of how Brave talked about her children when she would describe them to her sister and her niece. She would say that they were impolite, had no feelings or memories, were impatient and could not take care of themselves to recount a few. Brave did not seem to think highly of any of her children and did not care to voice her opinion around them or her sister. Also, Moon seemed impressionistic since Brave’s introduction of her children seemed to prompt her to have a negative take on them. Once household duties were resumed after Moon’s arrival, Brave quickly realized that Moon was unable to perform tasks needed to be done around the house. Brave took this to be the result

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