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What have you liked about the two twins boys?
Me I liked how the author described the relationship between those twins especially the way they were close but what got me was "The punishment sharing policy " where one can be taking a punishment of the other and their mother was not ok with their policy that made her punishing them together for something that one of them had done.
It shows me how the love between twins is very deep that no one can't separate their feelings.

I guess it must be a very deep connection. I don't know so personally because I don't have a twin. What I've seen, though, is that despite the great love twin siblings might have, parents need to foster the development of independence and individual identity.

I had a firsthand experience of this kind of love between twins. Once, a girl was confronted by a bully, her twin sister appeared in the scene and they both gave this bully a thorough beating. Twinship comes with a special kind of relationship that every parent needs to pay very serious attention to.

This is an interesting question! I really didn't give much thought to the twins while I was reading this book. I've heard a lot about how twins can share a special bond. I do respect the twins, though, since they defended Lena when they found their father beating her. In that case, however, I think any two brothers would have reacted in the same way, not just twins.

Twins have special bonds between each other which leads them to react the way the do. Most twins have telepathy and will mostly end up doing something for each other, which boost their relationship even when they become adults.

It was somehow very weird how one twin would be punished for something the other had done... This is unnatural and just plain strange. It smacks of mild child abuse in a way. Other than that, the relationship between the twins was amazing. I can't recall ever taking a punishment for any of my siblings and to hear that these two were doing it is just amazing.

I have a brother who people keep referring to as "my male twin," as I am a woman. We're years apart and I really don't think we look that much alike but we share this strange bond that I believe everyone with siblings could relate with. I mean, I'd catch a bullet for him but I won't get him a glass of water lol. I think the twins in the story reflected a lot about having siblings in your life. They just become a part of you. They always will be.

From a genetic standpoint, twins who are separated at birth have more similarities than fraternal twins that spend their entire lives together. I believe there is a special connection between twins. There are even tests to figure out if that is true! (It's surprisingly interesting). I do not, however, support the "punishment sharing" method. It is quite cruel to punish both kids if only one did! I think it is unethical and creates child trauma.

I guess they really are each other's keeper. As a parent, policy or no policy, I will punish the wrongdoer but if the other twiin wants to take the fall for the other, I will punish both. In this book, the twins display true brotherhood and affection for one another.

I have twins in my family-in-law and I can confirm first-hand that there is a very special bond between them. They are already used to the complicity they have, but we are often still surprised by certain situations that show how they share feelings, thoughts, opinions etc. It's great that this book uses twins to enhance the story.

The twin punishment situation made me consider how hard it would be to raise twins. How could you get them to stop doing something like this? And if they did choose to share the punishment, how would you, as a parent, cope?
Punish them both, as Lena did?
Let them share the punishment, but make the punishment twice as tough?
Or just let them share a normal punishment, so that each only gets half of what you intended? Does that approach encourage misbehavior, since they know they can get away with doing anything and only get "half punishment"? Does that then create resentment in the "innocent" twin who didn't want to go along with the other one's idea but now is stuck sharing punishment for something they didn't do?

For me, the twins in the book raised more questions than they settled. Maybe a parent of twins can clarify how this works in real life.

I think their relationship with one another was probably very special but I thought it was a bit strange that they didn't really seem to have their own identity even into their teen and young adult life. Most twins I know can still keep a close relationship without having to be that similar. It made them seem unrealistic characters to me.

Twins always have a special relationship. I don't support the "punish together" policy though. I've once had a run-in with some twins and I kid you not, you don't want to experience it. I like twin boys because of their cooperation. It seems to be in-built.

There is a pleather of research conducted on twins who have been separated at birth. All of them still go through the same things through life even if they never met. I liked how the other made the twins resemble each other and have a deep bond, that most people would be the envy of. They were so close. The double punishment was something I did not agree with but I can see why Lena decided to do that. The twins played tricks all the time, only a parent of twins can come up with ways to properly discipline them. Lena losing BOTH twins was a hard pill to swallow from this book for me.

Cynthia Olyy wrote: ↑01 Oct 2020, 05:58 I had a firsthand experience of this kind of love between twins. Once, a girl was confronted by a bully, her twin sister appeared in the scene and they both gave this bully a thorough beating. Twinship comes with a special kind of relationship that every parent needs to pay very serious attention to.

Lmao. Good! I'm clapping in my head.

I don't know if this closeness that twins feel is due to just being twins or if it is as a result of our culture of putting them together, treating them as the same, giving them the exact same clothes and toys, whatever, from childhood.

That us, I don't know if twins would have that same kind of close connection, if they were brought up in different homes, let's say.

Maybe it is not a forgone conclusion that twins will always be tight, as they're portrayed in the book and in general.