Since everyone is born without a mother or father, no one knows what a "home" is. On page 31, a man named Mustapa Mond asked the boys (the ones on a tour around the center) if they knew what a home is, or was, as they do not exist anymore. The boys did not know. He also told them to think about what "living with a family" was, but of course they couldn't imagine it. The rest of the chapter is mostly a series of small flashbacks from a very distant past which shows what a family was. But the chapter doesn't show the happy memories and the good times, it only shows the poverty, the misery, the screaming and the yelling. This is done in order to show the boys, and by the same occasion the readers, why it was almost impossible and extremely hard to live in a family. It is sad that the happy moments in a family are not shown, but I guess that is just done in order to convince the boys that life is better now, that now everyone is happy, instead of being miserable in a family.
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