This chapter opens with a picture of a snail that was picked up in the field and transformed into a beautiful girl and then fed into a water tank. The snail fell in love with the girl and fed it back into the water tank, where it lived happily for the rest of his life. The narrator tells us that the snail's life was a happy one, and that the narrator is happy because he loves to eat cooked snails. He asks the narrator if he will be happy if he can have a cooked snail, and the narrator answers that he will, because the cooked snail reminds him of his mother, who died in a car crash. The soup that the cook makes reminds the narrator of his parents, and he cries at the thought that his parents will never come back. He tells the narrator that he is not responsible for their death, but that he was just a kid who wanted to eat with his parents