Shame about public mockery drove a hero to abandon his own child

Evidence

Sam was ashamed. Fearing the people would mock a lord with such a strange child, he carried the baby to the foot of Mount Alborz and left him there to die. — , A Year of World Stories, 10962

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fear of crying outweighed the humiliation of a father’s mocking — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 112; A person who has lost own freedom cannot wager another’s — , A Year of World Stories, 7027

Broader Connections

• Fear of crying outweighed the humiliation of a father’s mocking #qualifies (0.70) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 112
• A person who has lost own freedom cannot wager another’s #complicates (0.60) — , A Year of World Stories, 7027