Joan Aiken's Short Story 'Searching For Summer'

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In the short story “Searching for Summer” by Joan Aiken, readers are given many times in which they are able to understand the character’s attitudes and motives through their actions. Aiken uses a lot of indirect characterization when trying to tell her audience who Tom, Lily and Mr. Noakes are. In other words, Aiken’s does not say “Mr. Noakes is a bad person”, but through his actions readers can understand that he is. Furthermore, Tom and Lily live in a world where a blue sky and sunlight is just as unusual as “ the grass [being] pink” ( ). Due to this dilemma, Tom and Lily both wanted to find the sun for good luck. Through their journey, they meet Mr. Noakes, the antagonist, who deliberately tries to tell them that he would turn a land

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