Our story begins in England during World War II. Four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, are sent away from London to keep them safe from air raids. (In some of the other Narnia chronicles, we learn that their last name is Pevensie, although it's not actually mentioned in this book.) The four children are sent to live in a large house in the country owned by an old professor. His housekeeper, Mrs. Macready, and three servants take care of the house and look after the children. The Professor is nice but strange; Lucy, who is the youngest, feels shy around him, and Edmund thinks he's funny. On their first night in the house, the children discuss their new surroundings. Peter, Susan, and Lucy like the Professor. Edmund is irritated by Susan's …show more content…
They're excited to see different animals in their natural habitat. In the morning, though, it's raining. The children decide to explore the house instead of going outside. The house is large and complicated with many interesting rooms and antiques. Eventually the children come to a room that is empty except for a large wardrobe (a wardrobe is a stand-alone piece of furniture that substitutes for a built-in closet). Peter, Susan, and Edmund leave the room to keep exploring. Lucy stays and opens the door of the wardrobe. The wardrobe contains fur coats. Lucy loves fur, so she steps in to feel the coats. She notices a second row of coats behind the first and goes further in. As Lucy walks deeper into the wardrobe, she is surprised when she doesn't hit the back of it. Eventually, instead of reaching the back, she feels snow under her feet and evergreen branches hitting her face and hands. Lucy emerges out the back of the wardrobe to find herself standing in a winter landscape at nighttime. It's snowing! Lucy is scared but excited. When she turns around, she can see the fur coats hanging in the wardrobe and the empty room through the wardrobe door. When she looks ahead of her, she sees a snowy
6. “Now, on this final day of her life, Mrs. Clutter hung in the closet the calico housedress she had been wearing, and put on one of her trailing nightgowns and a fresh set of white socks.” (page 34, paragraph 2)
"The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing burlap ticking..." (17)
Much like Madeline, Lucy becomes a victim of involuntary sleepwalking where she too is stuck in a “dream-world,” yet looking at Freud’s theory of dreams, how can we completely agree on the idea that she was not also acting on her ID? (???) states that “The symptoms (of sleep walking) are not simply a matter of individual affliction-they point to a shadowy world of dreams, repressed desires and the supernatural outside the rational daylight world of an increasingly affluent, increasingly materialistic Victorian society.” The idea of “repressed desires,” exposed in our dreams described by Freud is evidently seen in Lucy. By walking out alone at night we see the emergence of the New Woman being revealed through her sleep walking. This contradicts the “Angel in the House” figure who is “Dearly devoted” to a man, because a typical Victorian woman
There are three older boys, Ralph, Jack, and Piggy, that have an effect on the group of younger boys. The Main character Ralph, changes throughout the novel because of his role of leadership and responsibility, which shapes him into a more strict but caring character as the group becomes more uncivilized and savage. At the beginning of the story, after the plane crashed on the island and the boys are accounted for, Ralph feels very free and absent. He finds a lagoon with warm water, and just like any other twelve year old boy, he goes for recreational swimming. Whizzoh!
Susan is the youngest of four children, of which only she and her older brother, John, were the only to survive. It is believed that her father, Clark, is responsible for his first two children’s deaths. John was also severely physically abused by Clark and was often given notes to excuse him from gym at school. John and Susan had limited interactions together and John was beaten when he tried to give her food. At the age of eighteen, John ran away to escape his father’s callous abuse, thus leaving Susan to endure
Countless times throughout Robinson’s work, the idea of the home is used as a way to contrast society’s views, and what it means to the characters of Robinson’s novels. In Robinson’s most famous novel Housekeeping, two young girls experience life in a home built by their grandfather, but altered by every person that comes to care for them. After their mother
Some Boys is told in alternating voices, the voices of Grace and Ian. They are both forced to spend some time coming in to the empty school to clean out lockers as punishment for various bad behavior.
Once they arrive in the house, the main character is basically locked away in the nursery for the rest of the story. This nursery had everything moved out of it besides the bars on the window and th...
They woke up and trudged on, through the deep and treacherous snow. “Roar”, all of them stopped in their tracks, they looked around but saw nothing except for the thick blanket of pure white snow.
...that where her parents were. She already knew that her parents were in the snow globe of the Detroit zoo but she told her that they were in the small door so she had time to get the snow globe.
Similarly, the furniture in the house is as sullen as the house itself. What little furniture is in the house is beaten-up; this is a symbol of the dark setting. The oak bed is the most important p...
In the novel Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, Lucy Snow comes in contact with a multitude of characters who are not always new to her throughout her story in Villette. Often times they are character who the reader was already introduced to earlier in the novel and she simply does not always make that connection, for reasons that vary with each character. On a superficial level, misrecognition is used to build suspense in the novel, but on a deeper level misrecognition and recognition is a tool used to allow Lucy to open up to the readers and other characters more than she had in the past.
She can not know or even begin to understand what her world is going through right now. Climate changes are already affecting the U.S. and overpopulation is taking it’s toll on the entire earth. A massive hurricane called “Linda” hits southern Florida and takes out much of Miami. This is just the beginning of what young Lucy will experience, but it is the moment she truly begins to understand the trouble her world is in. Scientist of this time predicted major changes in climate and weather could result in some severe hurricanes and tsunamis, and they were not wrong. The United States alone experiences major storms along the coast at least once a year. Lucy’s parents decide to make the move to San Diego to start over new. She discovers that the entire nation is struggling as gas prices skyrocket, and the country continues to dig for more oil and burn more coal adding to stress the earth is enduring. Meanwhile, summit leaders fail to reach an agreement on a plan to cut down greenhouse gasses and conserve energy. Despite all of this she continues to speak in a romantic literary style about life. She becomes an EMT to make a difference in the world around her. She tries to take charge of her life and attends a protest against the rising water prices in California, where she meets the man she will marry. She does not see yet that the rising prices and limited supply of both water and gas are warning signs of what is to
Although the novel is notorious for its satire and parodies, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland main theme is the transition between childhood and adulthood. Moreover, Alice’s adventures illustrate the perplexing struggle between child and adult mentalities as she explores the curious world of development know as Wonderland. From the beginning in the hallway of doors, Alice stands at an awkward disposition. The hallway contains dozens of doors that are all locked. Alice’s pre-adolescent stage parallels with her position in the hallway. Alice’s position in the hallway represents that she is at a stage stuck between being a child and a young woman. She posses a small golden key to ...
We can?t tell. So as the door was being opened by a latchkey everyone ran through the long stair case and found ?Brently Millard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella?, then Louise was so flabbergasted that she had a heart attack and eventually died.