Balzac and the little chinese seamstress

2) Why do you think the author chose to end the novel this way? (Please don't say " to make it more interesting and keep us guessing.")

From the beginning, the story was about restricting change and rejecting anything that it was considered out of the norm.I did some research on the Cultural revolution and it basically was the oppression of the intellectuals. Reeducating was basically a way of stripping them of their former "worldly" intelligence, or any intelligence that they would receive if they were in real school. Anything that is about defying the law for the sake of passion and love, is considered romantic to me.With the little seamstress she was the perfect example of a person who eyes just needed to be opened up. She was vulnerable, and her yearning to know more, experience more, be more than just a mountain girl is what made it so predictable that leaving was the best thing to do. The Little seamstress knowledge through those books makes her yearn for more.That's why she leaves the ones that taught her how to live. Ma and luo are enraptured by the little Seamstress. She is a symbol to them beauty and love and her desire for a different life to go beyond just books and story. But it isn't just about he books and stories. Its about the power of imagination. Ma and luo are story tellers, and the whole town is enchanted by the stories they tell. The whole point of their story is not only to introduce the world to the villagers and Little seamstress by to provoke imagination. All the elements of restrictions and imagination ties up at the end with the little seamstress leaving. This surprising but not unpredicible ending left luo and Ma flabbergasted, but I think they understood. All they needed was closure. He didn't let the book end that way to "keep us guessing" but to keep us alive.