The mother loves her daughter and is willing to suffer for her schooling, saving up tuition fees little by little; the daughter is filial and grateful to her mother, and she specially buys her mother a gift to express her gratitude to her mother. However, in the attitude towards the gift, mother and daughter are very different, the mother can not understand the daughter's heart, the daughter is sad and disappointed. The direct expression of the conceptual difference between mother and daughter is the attitude towards the "statue", and in the end, the "statue" is broken, which precisely reflects this difference.
The story of her mother falling ill for school fees emphasizes how hard it is for the little girl to go to school, and points out how hard it is for the girl's mother to support the family, paving the way for the rest of the story.
"Hill-like" implies the emotion, you can first think about how 10,000 yuan can be piled up like a "hill-like", is certainly a small denomination of banknotes, the number of more. Visible, the money is not easy to come, is the mother little by little saved up. The phrase "like a small mountain" indicates that 10,000 yuan is not easy to come by, it condenses the mother's efforts.