The centrality of the absence of Jun Do's mother to his childhood experiences can be discerned in his unbalanced development as a human being.
- For one, Jun Do has to grow up in an orphanage where his own father is the director. This completely sounds bizarre. In this boys' orphanage, he remains the only one to live for a long time without adoption.
- Secondly, Jun Do graduates from the orphanage at the end to become a government-sponsored kidnapper. He eventually steals the identity of a powerful man in the People's Republic of Korea after murdering him and transforms himself to act in the man's stead, even marrying Sun Moon, the powerful man's wife.
- Thirdly, since his life is largely determined by the government, where truth and fiction cannot be easily differentiated, Jun Do develops as an emotionally unstable man. In the eyes of the state, he remains a national hero.
- According to Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son," life in the People's Republic of Korea is brutish, government-dictated, and uncertain.
Thus, the absence of the mother of Jun Do impoverished his childhood, leading him to become a miserable and unfulfilled person towards the end of his life.
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