ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Eileen Kernaghan, Yom Tov Asevilli, Damask
23 Feb 2016
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Clearly written for older readers: young adults. Family relationships and the conflict that results from the young person"s growing independence are often dealt with here. Kernaghan"s version acknowledges the force of sexual awakening: it is a force that can propel an ordinary victorian girl like gerda northward on a perilous voyage *** Kernaghan follows the basic plot of andersen"s tale, but enriches it by fleshing out the characters of gerda and ritva. In andersen, gerda and kay are little ones" *** Gerda and kay are teens, on the threshold of adulthood childhood friends who might one day become more than friends (as gerda hopes) The glittery threads woven into the blue damask sparkled like ice-crystals under the chandeliers. Her hair, the pale white-gold of winter *** Kernaghan has deliberately set her version of the story *** Kernaghan has said in an interview that: the mid-nineteenth ***
