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This 3 page paper describes Emilie Carles’s book “A Life of Her Own” and argues that she was not typical of the French people of her time. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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are woefully ignorant, which means that Carless book seems more like a fairy-tale or a work of fiction than one of fact, but its true, and extremely moving. Carles describes
her village as being sort of "stuck" in the Middle Ages, where the people led simple lives and didnt care about much that went on the outside world; they were,
instead, concerned only with sickness, work and death.1 It seems almost impossible to believe, considering that Carles is describing a life that took place within living memory, not in some
distant past, but life in the village is so difficult that mere survival takes up everyones time. That could help to explain why the situation in the rest of Europe
seems to make little impression. They have survived one war and are facing another, but the concept of war is so vast that is seems meaningless-but the death of one
person in the village is immediate and relevant. Carles begins her book with the words, "When I was six death wouldnt have me."2 She fell two storeys onto a threshing
floor hard as concrete floor, imitating her father as he threw sheaves of wheat down for threshing.3 She fell the same day that her father was scheduled to go and
get a bull from the commune, and because the bull was vital to the village, he went on with his plans and left his daughter in her sisters care.4 Its
not that he didnt care about her, but his priority was on the village as a whole, not on one person in it, even though she was his daughter. This
kind of dreadful choice was forced on him by the extreme hardship of their lives. After reading Carless detailed picture of just how difficult life was in the village, the
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