The Fifth Child, passage 5
Publié le 06/02/2012
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The Fifth child is a book written by Doris Lessing, a British writer who was born in 1919. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 for this book. The story is about Harriet and David who had had five children but the fifth one is very different from the others. Doris Lessing had the idea to write this novel thanks to the testimony of a mother in a magazine: she did not bear her last child, he embodied the devil. How does this fifth child is different from the others? First, we will study how extraordinary Ben is, then the comparison between Ben and an animal and, to finish, we will focus on Harriet’s and David’s relationship.
From the first lines, we learn that Harriet left the hospital and that she come home. Even if the medical staff said her that Ben was “a normal healthy fine baby” she still disagree. David finds also that “he’s absolutely not ordinary”, he says that “he’s extraordinary”.
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- Passage 1 the fifth child
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