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...class in school emphasizes racial purity, and the burning of the synagogue on her street evokes not pity but rather fear of alien beings. Neither does the euthanasia program provoke an outcry from the child or the parents, even when it claims the life of Nelly's feeble-minded Aunt Dottie. As Wolf makes clear, a child's morality is wholly dependent on that of the parents. A child cannot make moral judgements about the actions of her world, she must merely accept...
When their grandmother dies, care of the castaway daughters eventually falls to their Aunt Sylvie, who comes back to Fingerbone from whereabouts and husband unknown. She is a gentle, oddly weatherless woman who poses no threat in the way of harshness or undue discipline. The girls like her, and worry: "Lucille and I still doubted that Sylvie would stay. She resembled our mother, and besides that, she seldom removed her coat, and every story she told had to do with a train or a bus station." The three settle into a land of amiable anarchy. They eat what and when...
...with a lonely but respectable schoolteacher. Ruth stays, increasingly convinced that "we are the same. She could as well be my mother." Well-meaning townspeople decide to save Ruth for ordinary society and have Sylvie declared unfit to raise her. When the success of this crusade seems assured, the aunt and niece decide to keep their house no longer...
...also a student at the Liverpool College of Art while the Quarrymen were still gigging around. "I knew John would always be a bohemian," Aunt Mimi recalled. "But I wanted him to have some sort of job. Here he was nearly 21 years old, touting round stupid halls for ?3 a night. Where was the point in that...
John gloried in playing parent to Sean, and liked to call himself a househusband. What upset traditionalists was the fact that he obviously reveled in his domestic role. This role reversal was seen by the man raised by an aunt and three of her sisters as no threat at all. He insisted-indeed, proved -that he was putting nothing at risk, not his manhood and not his artistry...