1. The ability to love others seen in the woman's treatment of the girl can show us many things about God's love for us. When the baby of the girl is baptized, I believe it shows us that God loves everyone no matter what situation they are in. Also the fact that the mom of the baby is a slut and the woman still baptizes her baby says that God's love can go out to anyone.
2. At the end of the story when the woman says to the infant "I saved him" she mean many things when she said this. She can mean she literally saved the baby from the bad situation they were in. Also she can mean that she saved the baby by baptizing him into a world of new life and 'saving' him from the works of the devil.
3. I think the purpose of this section in the story the author describes is to relate the story of the flower getting struck to the infant baby that almost died as well. And how that baptizing created new life for them both. What the author tried to convey about the woman through his descriptions is to convince her to have a better understanding of God.
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