Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight
Garden is quite moving and heartwarming. This can be clear through the
themes such as friendship, fantasy and loneliness.
The novel presents a resume to the
life of the author and it is interesting focusing on the life of the
countryside in a fantasy atmosphere. The novel has many elements that make it
heartwarming and moving as it presents the Victorian England as being a utopia
that can strengthen the national sense of British readers especially the young.
The story creates a world of imagination and adventures throughout time
focusing on feelings such as loneliness, death, friendship and relating all
this to war and loss. Through time slip which is a simple device Tom can travel into time
which can symbolize many things a person can have such as condensation that is
a symbol for thoughts of people.
The author is taking the reader in
different worlds that they discover that they are in the mind of an old lady as
the time space presented by Pearce in the dealing she makes with ghosts is
making moving point in addition to the reconciliation between the elderly Hatty
and the child Tom is representing moving points the author can add to
children's fiction. The heartwarming impact left on readers during and after
reading this work can be made through the different feelings realized through
events and acts included in the connections and disconnections of Tom with
nostalgia related to time and aging as the state of Tom being disconnected from
present and connected to the past brings feelings of dead people and make it
fantastic world.
In conclusion, Philippa Pearce’s
Tom’s Midnight Garden is a work that is more than children literature because
it bears worlds of the past and souls of the dead that can take the reader to
moving points and heartwarming feelings.
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