Children on the Beach Flashcards
Who wrote Dombey and Son (1846–48)?
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son
- absence of play (direct refusal)
- no direct contact with the beach or sea
- no interaction with other people or children
- isolation
- discussion of death
- sea-air not bracing, but produces melancholia
- no beachcombing (apart from nurse = adult)
- communication between child and the sea
What did Charley Kingsley write?
The Water-Babies (1863)
–> chimney sweep falls into river and gets turned into a water-baby where he gets moral education
–> Christian redemption
–> author argues that England treats its poor badly, and questions child labour
Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel” (1954)
- Jerry and his widow mother vacation at the beach where he tries to swim through that tunnel
–> Becomes unlike a child the longer the story progresses
–> Red refers to sight, all other colors refer to other senses
- Sense we most rely on (sight) is not available in this scene (Soon he was clear inside
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, from The Dragonfly Sea
- Mirroring
- Voice and lightning seem to mirror each other when mother calls for the child –> the same way the kitten stares at the dragonfly the same way the child stares at the man
Who wrote “The Dragongfly Sea” (2019)?
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Seeing (in) the Sea
- The boy gets googles to help him see in the ocean –> needs technology to see, needs something ‘other’.
- Ayana adapted to the sea, doesn’t experience it as alienation, embodiment –> relies on feeling, sensing, experiencing, almost as if she’s become part of the sea.
What book did Francesca Sanna write?
The Journey (2016)
The Journey
- migration/refugee stories
- the color scheme implies the dangers lurking and coming until it’s all black/gray
Who wrote Lubna and Pebble (OUP, 2020)?
Wendy Meddour and Daniel Egnéus
Lubna and Pebble
- Finds a pebble that becomes her best friend
- Pebbel is given human attributes –> is kind and always listening
