The narrator compares his father's death to the way he usually does things. He always thought that he would receive news one day that his father was dead in an alley, even though his sister is telling him that. However, his father died of a heart attack, and the narrator doesn't feel any emotions for him. He says that he has beaten his father so badly that he threatened the police, and that death is an even that is more tragic and sad than an even. The narrator says that she has always thought death was an even, which means that death would be more tragic than even. She tells her sister that she can help her eat the food, even if her father is not present. She says that her brother can't eat food from her plate, because he's not allowed to do so by the family rules. She also tells her brother that she is his older sister, which makes him feel guilty. He tells her that he only believes half of what his father said, but that she wants to be his sister in her dreams.