Tom's Midnight Garden - READER 2 ESSAYS
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Tom's Midnight Garden - INTRODUCTION
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Tom's Midnight Garden - INTRODUCTION
· It was published in 1958.
· It is regarded as one of the
classics of British post-war children's fiction.
· It is famous for its time-slip narrative.
· It remains a much loved book
by both children
and adults.
· It had been criticized as nostalgic and conservative, extolling the virtues of the past over those of the present and over-romanticising
the rites, rituals and hierarchies of Victorian England which it positions as a lost golden age.
· It has centred on the themes of loss and the
sense of "things
slipping away".
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Midnight Gardens, Magic Wells
This essay explores the concept of time.
Nikolajeva differentiates between two types of time: eternal
time, mythic time, which she calls kairos, and measurable, linear time, which she calls achronos. The interplay between
these two types of time is central to her
interpretations of the novel, and her understandings of the relationship
between the two children, and to the book's conclusion.
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Loneliness, Dreaming and Discovery-Tom's Midnight Garden
This essay is strongly
informed by psychological
theory and suggests that the novel is an
exercise in psychological realism, dealing with the difficulties of sexual awakenings and
emotional development, as well as presenting child-readers with a way of
coping with loneliness
and loss.
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· The story describes
the way in which a child of modern times comes to enter imaginatively into the
lives of a period two generations ago.
· The story explores
in quite complex ways the
balance of gain and loss involved in this process of change.
· The story achieves
its effect in part through its intense power of metaphor.
· In this story, the
imaginations of the two children, Hatty and Tom, are deepened and extended by
their experiences of
separations.
- Hatty suffers a
dramatic and deep loss, through the death of her parents.
- Tom's is a more
minor separation through the illness and holiday.
· It's through experience of Hatty's loss, and
exploration with her in play of what for both of them is a somewhat unfriendly
and persecuting place, that Tom
is able to make something of his separation and of the opportunities for new experiences which it
brings about.
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Tom's Midnight Garden
By Roni Natov
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