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The Greengage Summer Study Guide

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by Rumer Godden
About 7 pages (2,017 words)
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Although The Greengage Summer is a novel for young adults, the theme of growing up is appropriate for an adult audience, one that will pick up on the more subtle nuances of this novel. The story revolves around five English children who are stranded alone at a French hotel after their mother becomes ill and is taken to a hospital.

Cecil, thirteen years old, is an intelligent and observant girl, and through her the reader becomes aware of the cultural differences between the French and the English. The people at the hotel are practical, unsentimental, and realistic, and treat the children as miniature adults or as nuisances. Coming from a sheltered family environment, the two older girls, especially, are exposed to adult intrigues, jealousy, and love. Concerned only with her own feelings, Mademoiselle Zizi, owner.....

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The Greengage Summer from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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