Yoshiko Uchida The Wise Old Woman Analysis

In the story of The Wise Old woman retold by Yoshiko Uchida there were rules that had to be followed by a cruel leader and the rule is that anyone over seventy-one will be banished into the mountains alone to die. The reason being is because The elders can’t do any work since they are old. In the story the village had faced three difficult task that seemed impossible ,but a young famers mother had been wiser than any of the wise men of the young lords village. In the story it said “You are wiser than all the wise men of the village, the lord said when he heard the farmer’s solution, and he rewarded him with many pieces of gold. The thousand ropes of ash were quickly made and the village was spared.”.
The second task seemed really impossible