Oranges are not the only Fruit

The short insert story about the princess and the moths

How does the story connect to the main story about Jeanette, her mother's ambition and her calling? What parallels can you draw? How much work is the reader expected to put into it?

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The story is connected to the main story because both the protagonist are taken up as successors to take over their mother's or master's duties after their death.

Jeanette has been adopted to become a missionary and a prophetess and to help people not to be sinners. Similarly, the princess of the story has the duty of educating people and composing songs (just as the hymns Jeanette has to perform).

The humble condition of the hunchback and his simple way of life remind of the strict and not-at-all-technological way of life to whom Jeanette is used.

There is not much work the reader is expected to put into it. The similarities are quiet perceptible and also the layout of the text helps the reader to understand the parallels between the two stories: the duties of Jeanette and the princess are listed in a very similar way.

To conclude, the story seems to be a product of the little Jeanette's imagination, a way of making her life become epic and more interesting to be lived.