In a novel called Single Shard, the main character is named Tree-ear. Throughout the course of the novel, Tree-ear has had to experience many emotional changes.
At the beginning of the novel, one emotion Tree-ear had to experience was pain. He worked for a man named Min chopping wood and fetching clay. Before Tree-ear started working he had never had to work, but he accidentally broke a piece of Min’s pottery. So, in return for Tree-ear breaking Min’s pottery, Min had Tree-ear come work at his house to pay for the pottery he accidentally broke. On the first day Tree-ear started chopping wood, he developed a blister on his hand. Because of the repetitive motion of swinging the axe to chop the wood, the blister Tree-ear developed would constantly