Khaled Hosseini. And echo is flying through the mountains (№ 386424)

That's what throws, spoiling mom's kindness, her acts of salvation, courage and bravery. The shadow of debt. Requirements and obligations it has taken on saved. His good deeds she uses as currency: exchange them for their dedication and loyalty. Now I understand why Madeline left many years ago. The rope that had once pulled her out of the pool, can become a noose around his neck. People, including me, in the end, inevitably disappoint mom. They can not recover what is owed, as she wants. Mama's consolation prize is the grim satisfaction of self-righteousness, the will to impose sentences strategically with a good hearth, as is her people down.
It makes me sad, because I see that the need of the mother, her restlessness, fear of loneliness, the horror of being stranded, abandoned.