Childhood Is The Kingdom Where

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the child is grown and puts away childish things" (1,2). I think what Edna is trying to express is that when you reach a particular age you don't just start being an adult. Being an adult is not something you just wake up one day an decide to be.
In the third and fourth lines she writes, " nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is" (3, 4). I feel she is stating here that the chid is inoocent from adult feelings. When your a child death does not have a real meaning to you. She writes, "mothers and fathers don't die" (22), and for that matter brothers and sister do not either. When you are young death does not seem to have a impact unless it happens to someone that is in your immediate family. She even writes of the impersonal relationships that a child has with relatives. You can imagine how if the relative died the child might not even notice.

In lines 9 through 16 Edna writes about how a child might first encounter death first hand when the family cat dies. But the ...

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