to be asleep and rocks him in her arms singing the same song. her love for him never changes no matter what he does.
now the man is grown and has a family of his own. he gets a call from his old mother asking him to come as she is very sick. her son goes to see her, and she tries to sing the song but is too weak. he then picks her up in his arms and sings the song to her. this is the part of the book that always makes me cry. the end of the book shows the son going home and picking up his own 