“If the boy did have a good and loving mother somewhere, surely they would find her.
God only knew how she wanted to believe it. Every single day, she practiced her detachment skills, trying not to care about everything that was wrong with the world. Or rather...to care, but in a suitably civilized manner, with an admirable commitment that might still be set aside when she came home to Morten and her family, complete with well-reasoned and coherent opinions of the humanist persuasion. Right now she felt more like one of those manic women from the animal protection societies, with wild hair and ever wilder eyes. Desperate.”
The passage made a great impact in my mind, when I was reading the book. The passage is written in Nina Borg’s perspective after she found the
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Her first instinct was to hand the boy over to the authorities so she doesn 't have to worry about anymore but she knew of she hands him out to the police the boy would be placed in a foster care system and would eventually get lost in the system and she wanted to know the boy was safe back with his mother, she wanted to ensure that. She truly in her heart believed that this little boy has a mother who is desperately looking for the boy. Nina herself has two kids and she can 't imagine if one of her kids gets lost how she will be reacting like a wild, manic women searching for her child. It’s an animal instinct of mothers to protect their children and that 's how she felt after she found the boy, though he is not her biological child but she felt the same animal instinct inside her to protect the boy and find his mother herself at all costs. I truly believe if me me and my brother ever get lost that 's what my mother would go