I met Maggie and Tom. They seem to be having a quite quiet simple life at the Floss. Maggie is a sensitve girl who loves her brother Tom more than its seems to be.
One thing about Maggie is that she's not the kind of girl their society expects her to be. She has brown skin which doesn't seem to fit a girl-from-St.Oggs description. But Maggie doesn't really care. What she wanted was to be exactly the way she is, be accepted exactly the way she is. One more important thing is Maggie believes that what she knows is far more important than how she looks.
In her young mind, she has a lot to learn. But it seems that society does not want her to be given the chance. She just have to be what a girl is to be. But not for Maggie. I think she'll go exactly where she wants to go and be exactly what she wants to be.
Tom, on the other hand, does not seem to be as smart as Maggie. It's just that he's a boy and he seems to be stereotyped by their society to be the boy every parent would want to have. In reality, Tom seems to be weak.
Our childhood is very important. This is what moulds us for our adult life. The memory of Peter comes back. He had a very difficult childhood and that was exactly what led him to do what he did during that nineteen minutes. Society plays a big part on our foundation. And a family is considered the smallest society.
George Eliot wanted to show the importance of love and acceptance even at a very young age. He wrote about it when Tom got angry with Maggie for the dead rabbits she forgot to feed. Maggie was asking for forgiveness as she rushed to him and clung on his neck, sobbing. This is an excerpt from the book:
One thing about Maggie is that she's not the kind of girl their society expects her to be. She has brown skin which doesn't seem to fit a girl-from-St.Oggs description. But Maggie doesn't really care. What she wanted was to be exactly the way she is, be accepted exactly the way she is. One more important thing is Maggie believes that what she knows is far more important than how she looks.
In her young mind, she has a lot to learn. But it seems that society does not want her to be given the chance. She just have to be what a girl is to be. But not for Maggie. I think she'll go exactly where she wants to go and be exactly what she wants to be.
Tom, on the other hand, does not seem to be as smart as Maggie. It's just that he's a boy and he seems to be stereotyped by their society to be the boy every parent would want to have. In reality, Tom seems to be weak.
Our childhood is very important. This is what moulds us for our adult life. The memory of Peter comes back. He had a very difficult childhood and that was exactly what led him to do what he did during that nineteen minutes. Society plays a big part on our foundation. And a family is considered the smallest society.
George Eliot wanted to show the importance of love and acceptance even at a very young age. He wrote about it when Tom got angry with Maggie for the dead rabbits she forgot to feed. Maggie was asking for forgiveness as she rushed to him and clung on his neck, sobbing. This is an excerpt from the book:
We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart what we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserve a dignified alienation, showing much firmness on one side and swallowing much grief on the other. We no longer approximate in our behavoir to the mere impulsiveness of the lower animals, but conduct ourselves in every respect like memebers of a highly civil society.
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