Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (paragraph 6)

It seems as though the headman keeps sending the boys to go see films not only to tell stories to the village but because he likes to be in possession of the boy's little clock. I am not sure what his fascination with the clock is, maybe he feels like he is in control of time. While in Yong Jing the narrator, Luo and the little seamstress learn that Four Eye's mother has come to get him and take him back to the city because he has gotten a job. I wasn't really sure why the narrator pretended to be Luo when he was talking with Four Eye's mother, but it is a good thing that he did otherwise she might not have spoke to him as much. I don't think she really like the narrator based on what her son had told her. The mother tells the narrator that there is no hope of getting the suitcase and he is very dissapointed by this idea. When he goes and tells Luo and the seamstress, the Little Seamstress says, "About those books of his - what if we stole them?" It was odd to hear this from the Seamstress, I thought she liked the stories but not as much as the boys. I guess it showed that she was determined to get to read more stories. The three characters come up with a plan to steal the books. When Luo and the narrator are inside the house hiding under the beds it was very suspensful, I thought for sure they would get caught. In the end it turned out that they got away easily, they never heard from Four Eyes again. When the boy's finally have the suitcase they say that they hate everyone who kept the books away from them. I was surprised by this reaction but I can understand why they would feel this way. All their lives they never got to experience the magic and the adventures of literature because there was always someone forbidding it.