The images in the film of busy streets with many pedestrians and vehicles clarify why the narrator in Dragonwings thinks
that
"Father was the embodiment of Uncle's superior man."
"magic takes a different form in our land."
"every trip was an adventure into a strange, fearful city."
o "there are good demons and bad demons."

Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. mood: tone: