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The Little White Horse
by Elizabeth Goudge
The story is rather simple, actually. Maria arrives in Moonacre Valley and pretty much goes about her normal life. Her old friend from when she was younger reappears in her life, and I honestly thought Robin was going to turn out to be some sort of fairy boy. He had all the qualities and disposition of one. Her uncle is an accepting man, though a businessman, and treats the young Maria as his superior, bowing to her desires as easily as anything even though he is truly the one in charge. The townsfolk welcome Maria with open arms, the Old Parson and the children, Loveday and the animals, the staff of Moonacre Manor.
It may seem that things happen to easily for Maria, that simply her deciding to do it makes it possible and probably to happen. However, the book also lends itself to the belief that there is a sort of magic in Moonacre Valley and that it, too, wants all the wrongs committed within its hills to be corrected, and thus it helps her out.
I liked how the animals had personalities and made decisions and 'spoke' without every actually saying a word. I liked how things were explained simply, in a way that even wild concepts seemed commonplace.
There were moments when a character would be described and my mental image did not add up to what I thought the author intended, simply because I know that the way in which we describe people has changed since The Little White Horse was written. In the same vein of thought, the ideas of what a woman is capable of versus what a man is capable of, what their duties are in life, are different from those today. However, Maria manages great things and the characters do their utmost within these societal definitions to bring the story to a satisfying close.
It may seem that things happen to easily for Maria, that simply her deciding to do it makes it possible and probably to happen. However, the book also lends itself to the belief that there is a sort of magic in Moonacre Valley and that it, too, wants all the wrongs committed within its hills to be corrected, and thus it helps her out.
I liked how the animals had personalities and made decisions and 'spoke' without every actually saying a word. I liked how things were explained simply, in a way that even wild concepts seemed commonplace.
There were moments when a character would be described and my mental image did not add up to what I thought the author intended, simply because I know that the way in which we describe people has changed since The Little White Horse was written. In the same vein of thought, the ideas of what a woman is capable of versus what a man is capable of, what their duties are in life, are different from those today. However, Maria manages great things and the characters do their utmost within these societal definitions to bring the story to a satisfying close.