![]() She thought she could hear her aunt breathing, but she wasn’t sure. ![]() She pulled herself together and scurried over to her aunt. Immediately after Kate Partridge and her aunt Hannah are attacked, and Kate is raped, “Kate sat back on her heels and tried to catch her breath. Description settles into clichés - “Hannah was a good egg when she let her hair down’’ “ looked like a fashion plate.’’ This limited vision shortchanges the characters’ experiences, both physical and psychological. She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people.’’ This limited voice often entails a correspondingly limited vision. Her views were her own, and educators did not always appreciate free thought. ![]() Her family was taking her out of Mount Holyoke Seminary she was needed at home and she hadn’t been happy at the school. The result is passages that sound as if they were lifted from a children’s chapter book, with age-appropriate restrictions on vocabulary and syntax: “Emily went for a walk on her last day at school. Simplicity degenerates into simplification. ![]() In the less effective stories here, the folk-tale form exhibits the defects of its virtues. ![]()
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