Sarah changed the words of the pig lullaby so that they rhymed, and every night she sang it to little Stanley.

"If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,

"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."

While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,

Crying to the moo--oo--oon,

"if only, if only."

Why is this flashback important?

It tells why Stanley’s family has always had such bad luck.
It explains why Stanley is lonely and has few friends at home.
It gives the reader a better understanding of the lullaby Stanley’s father sings.
It indicates that both Sarah and Stanley are good writers.

Aoleu ce pula am bagamias

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.