Emily of New Moon, chapter 2: A Watch in the Night
In this chapter, Ellen Greene explains herself, Emily first goes to bed alone, and suffers alone till her father comes. Intensely, despairingly, but not (as I thought for a second) in a not-childlike way. Even as the ground crumbles under Emily's feet, metaphorically (this time), her father comes up and talks to her heart-to-heart, gathering her up and gives her back something to stand on - a faith in, if not events as they happen right now, then at least a kind of distant destiny.
Douglas Starr is by no means a perfect man, he is disdainful of those who he feels are unimaginary, showing ungratefulness to Ellen Greene particularly. He is proud and shows signs of possessiveness in how he didn't want the Murrays to get to know Emily as he fell mortally ill. And in how he still doesn't want to send for them in his last few remaining days. (Is Emily home-schooled because school is too far away from this house, which might have been the most affordable "out-of-doors" house Douglas could find for his poor health? Or did he seek out a distant house in part so he could have full-time company of his beloved, talented daughter with her bright imagination?)
Be that as it may, though. (Personally I find fault with him not contacting the Murrays as this point less for Emily's sake, and more for the sake of poor Ellen Greene, having to do the bulk of his physical care alone). I find myself curious as how Douglas Starr's relationship was with his own mother, the one who Emily is named for, and who she looks like. And his father as well. Did they understand him? They are not around anymore, but did he lose them as an adult or while he was still a child? I forget if we ever learn this. Perhaps he remembers a time when he wished to spend more days with a dying parent, but was whisked aside by uncomprehending other adults. If so, I can definitely see how he would want to spare Emily such an experience.
I also find it interesting that he reacted to the doctor's prediction in the way that would give him the most time possible with his child, yet leave his child with the lesser amount of monetary value. I think we the readers as much as Emily feel that was the right thing to do, but many in his own time might now have agreed. And certainly in other works of fiction one has often seen fathers sacrificing their health to work so their children will have more left to live on, but less time with their fathers - a choice narratives often seem to find sad, yet admirable. Of course, many times there are no Murrays waiting to take physical care of surviving children, so there might be not much of a choice... Sorry, I'm rambling, I'm rambling. (This whole post is probably rather incoherent, for which I apologize! I am several days late in posting it.)
That Emily is able to find her way out of despair and into tenderness and love is testament to her own strong soul and ability to take a leap of faith, but also to the strength of spirit and conviction in her father. Again, he makes her feel seen, listened to, centred, made important. It has become very central to her character to take her father's side in the narrative of her parents' backstory and the feud with the Murrays, and by extension to be drawn away from convention and in favour of non-conformist free thinkers. (Not non-religious thinkers, as faith in a life after death is very central in this chapter, and I don't think atheists are ever shown in a very warm light throughout the Emily books, sadly - but in thinkers who don't conform to orthodoxy - Douglas telling Emily that "You mustn't mix Him up with Ellen Greene's God, of course" is indicative of that.)
But the drawbacks of this is that she doesn't see any problems with her dad's caustic and contemptuous side, that she sees value in self-isolation, that she becomes perhaps rather invested in her own sense of specialness (not that children don't tend to be that in any case!), since after all she is the only surviving result of her parents' meeting...
Although perhaps she would have become a nature-loving roamer and a person of great imagination in any case! If so then she surely has become a much happier, stronger and confident person through her father's influence than she would have been with less understanding caregivers in those crucial early years. And all the better, then, that he did make that choice to prolong his life with her as much as possible...!
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प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी (PM Narendra Modi) की लोकप्रियता दुनियाभर में मानी जाती है. पीएम के मुरीद होने वालों की सूची में दुनिया के कई बड़े नेता शामिल हैं. वहीं, शनिवार अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति जो बाइडेन (Joe Biden) ने क्वाड बैठक के दौरान पीएम मोदी से उनका ऑटोग्राफ मांग लिया
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