
Can someone explain the significance of the spoon?

So what I can understand is that the kid is working under a superstition that if you take a peice from a tea set and bary it under the roots of a tree you can make a wish come true. The wish is the thing that's up for interpretation.
I belive the kids thinks his moms wish or his wish for his mom is for her to be happy. He knows that his mother is longing for her old love by barying the spoon I believe he thinks that will make her wish come true ( the wish being either for her love to come back or for her to be happy). When he shows him the spoon and he claims he doesn't know about her wish (her wish for him to come back as if saying he didn't come back because he wanted to come back to her but because it was "madatory") it proves to the kid that him barying the spoon did nothing and he throws it away.
Then at the end when the guy confesses his love and says he's sorry the spoon appears as if signifying that the wish did come true and that his mom is happy now. Also I think the kid chose two methods to make his mom happy one Killing her and then after she was dead since he couldn't confirm if she was happy he keeps trying and barys the spoon.
Hope that helped or made sense that's alot to read too I wonder if you'll read this since I'm 4 years later.
Maybe it's cultural differences here but, sometimes people just need to be slapped. Just so they can "catch" themselves.
Obviously she's just a little girl, but she was acting like a bitch. What she said was uncalled for and poor Moi already had some family "insecurity" problems as it was.
I deem that slap completely justified. Maybe she'll learn.
Nobody wants to be that person who teaches them. Nobody wants them to get taught. But the world is the world. At some point in their lives, people have to learn that they can't just go around saying shit.
Yes, they do need to learn. Which is why kids are supposed to be reared by adults. It is the adult place to teach a child how to behave. A slap from a peer out of anger is not a form of teaching. All it says to a child is "if I say something people don't like, they might hurt me" not "its wrong to say such a hurtful thing. Not all children are lucky enough to be born into a family that loves them or can take care of them, and that is not a child's fault. I understand you're frustrated with your own home life but it is cruel and unfair to take that out on your classmate." That slap taught her nothing. It will not make her a better person. It will only make her bitter. And that is not how you teach people to become good people.