The shinnig mountain

The Shining Mountain is a story about a girl called Pangma-La. Her father named her after a mountain they were going to climb together. When she was old enough, they climbed the mountain together, but she didn't have enough strength to climb the mountain, and therefore she gave her heart to the mountain goddess, cause she didn't want to disappoint her father. The mountain goddess turned Pangma-La into a white swan. When Pangma-La´s father found out that his daughter was a swan, he started to cry, and then the mountain goddess turned Pangma-La into a human again.

I think that Pangma-La´s father is a very selfish person, who tends to be very arrogant and snobbish. I think he sees himself as God's gift to mankind.

I think this because of the way he treats his wife, daughter and other people around him. The wife is obviously inferior to the father, i.e. on page 8, where the text says: "As the years passed and Pangma-La grew bigger, her father taught her to balance finely on the high tops of walls, and shin up sheer rocks by toe- and finger-holds. Her mother shook her head and fussed "Pangma-La"; she said, "You will tear your good jumper". "Pangma-La", she said, "you'll fall and hurt yourself". But her father only laughed and said. "Let her be, she's tough and hard as nails." As you clearly can see in this extract from the text, the father is the one making the decisions in the family. He does not care about his wife's opinions, or Pangma-La´s.