On Pale Green Walls

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ON PALE GREEN WALLS . The short story “On Pale Green Walls” is written by Clara Wigfall in 1997. The short story is about Violet and her parents who doesn’t get along, they do not understand each other and their needs. Violet struggle for getting some love and attention from her parent, but her parent do not understand her signals. Religion is one the main themes of this short story, Violets parents is true Christian, and believe in their priest’s advice. The main character in the short story is Violet, she is a very honest and quiet little girl, but she knows what’s going on around her. Violet loves, like every other child, when she gets attention from adults and especially their parents. She is very curious about everything, there is going on. An example is when Violet and her family are in the church, and Violet suddenly notices a very beautiful woman on the wall. She gets all Violets attention. Afterwards Violet starts to admire this woman, and everywhere she goes, this beautiful woman is too. Violet doesn’t know that it is the Virgin Mary, she saw. One day the Virgin Mary also is on the front page of her father’s newspaper, yet with a little baby boy in her arms. When Violet sees that, she gets so angry and jealous. I think she feels in some way that this woman was her “mother”, it was Violet she should love and not that baby boy, who is Jesus, she feels Jesus takes Maria from her. It is the same with other little kids; they do not want to share their mother with anybody, and definitely not with other kids. Maybe the Virgin Mary is this mother Violet really misses, a mother who looks at her, where she can feel the love. I don’t think Violets own mother live up to, what she expect or wish from a mother. Her father doesn’t either seem to give her that love
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