![]() ![]() When Minli leaves home without her parents' permission, thus begins her hero’s journey, which closely follows the structure of a classic hero's journey. This sets up a sub-conflict in the novel-Ma vs. Minli’s mother, Ma, believes stories to be foolish fantasy, but Minli is willing to risk believing in the impossible. ![]() When her father, Ba, tells Minli a story about the all-knowing Old Man of the Moon, Minli determines that the Old Man can solve their problems. The family’s meagre prospects set up the theme of the value of gratitude. Minli feels that, if only Fruitless Mountain would grow green, her family and community would prosper. ![]() Legend has it that Fruitless Mountain will only grow green again once Jade Dragon reunites with her long-lost children. ![]() Minli and her family live in a small hut in a poor, rainless village at the bottom of a mountain. The novel relies on folk tales, magical events, god-like intervention, rich imagery, and simple language to tell the story of a very ordinary girl with an age-old problem. Storytelling, as a result, becomes a major motif and important plot device. Historical and fantastical stories that Minli is hearing in “real time,” intersperse the main narrative. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon unfolds through a third person omniscient point of view that largely follows its protagonist, Minli. ![]()
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