English 2033E Study Guide - Final Guide: Veranda, Plastic Letters, Miss Trunchbull
15 Nov 2018
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Mary is the opposite of a traditional sweet heroine (disagreeable, angry, spoiled) Not at fault for terrible personality (never been loved) Tragic past to evoke sympathy but never ask for sympathy. British superiority (race) and class difference (society is evil) Mary heals by realizing that she has things to offer to other people. Magic brings together spiritual and physical, and the mind and the body, science and religious. Nature"s healing effects on mary and colin. Belief that he will live has a tremendous effect on colin. Children will heal when left alone with each other and nature. Wandered out into the garden and began to play by herself under a tree near the veranda. She pretended that she was making a flower-bed, and she stuck big scarlet hibiscus blossoms into little heaps of earth . Foreshadows mary imagination and love for beauty. The native servants she had been used to in india were not in the least like this.
