Sunday, December 13, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
A Northern Light
Mattie is restless and raring to join the world around her. At 16, she longs to attend college ad eventually teach kids. Instead, she helps her dad with farm work and raising her younger siblings.
Life changes and Mattie's anxiousness takes a hopeful turn when she begin working at a hotel in the Adirondacks. She and her friend, weaver, the first free-born child in his family, dream in spite of their bleak circumstances. Weaver dreams of law and Mattie of teaching and changing the world one young woman at a time. Jennifer Donnelly skillfully addresses the themes of race, education and gender oles all while maintaining the backdrop of the early 1900's in an Adirondacks hotel. The characters soon find their way into your memory.
Life changes and Mattie's anxiousness takes a hopeful turn when she begin working at a hotel in the Adirondacks. She and her friend, weaver, the first free-born child in his family, dream in spite of their bleak circumstances. Weaver dreams of law and Mattie of teaching and changing the world one young woman at a time. Jennifer Donnelly skillfully addresses the themes of race, education and gender oles all while maintaining the backdrop of the early 1900's in an Adirondacks hotel. The characters soon find their way into your memory.
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