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9 years ago
Friday, April 17, 2009
Mary and her childhood
Although Mary spent her early childhood in the same home as her parents, she barely knew them. Why were they virtual strangers? Why can't Mary mourn them after they die? When does Mary start understanding and caring about the feelings of others?
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It is hard to mourn someone when you have never learned to feel. Mary knew nothing about love or kindness. She only knew about wanting and receiving. She was never really plugged in to anyone.
I think Mary started to soften with Martha but really showed she cared about someone else's feelings when she sang Colin to sleep. She hurt for him and comforted him.
Her parents didn't care about her at all. It wasn't like Mr. Craven who was full of grief. I think they were kind of like Mary and Colin grown up if they hadn't changed.
How could you really mourn someone you never learned to love and who didn't love you.
Mary was never shown love so she could never learn it.
She was considered ugly by her mother and totally neglected and not loved. Because it was not the normal relationship of mother/child/father then she had a difficult time mourning because she didn't know how to really feel love. She began to start feeling concern for others feelings first with Mary then with Dickon, and with Ben Weatherstaff and the robin and in her garden with the rebirth of beauty around her.
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