2-1 Reading for Context in a Story

There once was a rather malicious boy who enjoyed hurling stones at trains. The boy’s mother tried to ameliorate the situation by grounding him to his room. The tenacious, disobedient, troublesome child absconded through his window; he was determined to cause trouble. His mother, a very swift woman, raced after him. He was as fast as a gazelle but she was swift as a lioness and caught up with him in no time. Instead of grounding the child again, the mother had an epiphany-- she would toss him on the train. The mother rushed forward and snatched up the boy, quickly tossing him on the moving train. The boy was audacious enough to escape out his window, yet he was too scared to climb off the train, and he was taken all the way across the country. Children heaved rocks at him the whole way. By the time the boy returned home, he gave his mother a big hug and apologized for behaving so badly.