A folktale is often intended to start building up a personality of a kid. The story of Malin Kundang is to teach a child not to hurt his parents let alone to insult them. The following story tells what happened to Malin when he spat on his mother’s face. He wouldn’t admit that the poor woman was his mother, because he was embarrassed to have a mother a poor woman clad in rags.
My grandma told me the story. “In a village hundred years ago”, she began, “lived a very poor family with a son nam