The little boy lost (innocence) Flashcards
1
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About
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- young child who while out searching for his father, gets lost.
-just as one might for a time lose faith in god, feel lost, they will find him again
2
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summary
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- father of boy getting farther away
- child cannot hear/see him
- without guidance in the dark
- after time of suffering vapours fly away and presumable able to find his way back
3
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‘father, father’
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- not persuing father?
- father unnames, not known .
4
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‘wet with dew’
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- ## dawn, been out all night =,
5
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‘the mire was deep’
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- hardship child facing
- physical surrounding of child. (mire, swampy wet area of land)
6
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religious undertones
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- spirtually, person looses faith, calls out to God,
- only when boy cries and prays for help, is he freed.
- boy chased after something unreal.
- leaving human relationships.
- pursuing father, someting not real, could mean possesions,
- prodigal son returned
- mother comforting - mother nature, - awaits the soul, comforting.
7
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rhyme
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- erratic rhyme scheme.
