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Ellen Foster

Kaye Gibbons, the author of the novel , believes that a quote from the Emerson’s “Self Reliance” is connected with Ellen’s struggle to survive and find her way in the world. The first line of this quote says, “Cast the bantling on the rocks” is related to Ellen herself. A bantling is an abandoned child. Ellen is a bantling even though she was not abandoned, she was deprived of a normal childhood. Her life as a child was extremely hard, physically and emotionally. She never had a mother or father take care of her through her entire youth. You could say that her childhood was “cast on the rocks”. The last line reads, “Power and speed be hands and feet”. This reminds me of how Ellen ran from ...

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left with her alcoholic father who mistreats her. Ellen spent a lot of time at her friend, Starletta’s house and at the house of her grandmother. Life with her grandmother was no better than life with her father. She did not want to be in either situation. After living with her grandmother, Ellen’s struggle to find a suitable, comforting home comes to an end. For the second time in her life, a family member has died right next to her, basically in her arms. Ellen is able to overcome this, even as a young child, by finding a foster home that gives her everything that she wanted in a family. What Emerson said basically means that a person who is brought up lacking a true loving mother and father, can be strong and find his or her life with other people regardless of their differences. Ellen is a perfect example of “the bantling” in Emerson’s “Self Reliance”.
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Added: 11/14/2008 11:56:44 PM
Category: Book Reports
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