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A 4 page paper which examines the development of the character of Primrose from A.S. Byatt’s story The Thing in the Forest. No additional sources cited.
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story. It is the story of two young English girls sent off for their protection during the war and the story of their magical exploration of a forest wherein they
find the thing that is dangerous and likely symbolic of mankind or the horrors of real life. The girls in the story, Penny and Primrose, are essentially the opposite of
one another, and so cling to one another both in childhood and abstractly in their later years when they return to that dark forest and the thing. The following paper
examines the development of the character of Primrose in The Thing in the Forest. The Thing in the Forest by A.S. Byatt In the beginning of the story the
two girls are on a train, heading for a place they have no knowledge of. They are perhaps frightened. They are both young girls whose mothers sent them away without
adequate explanation and they both perhaps feared they were bad girls and that is why they were sent off. However, since they see that the other is a nice girl
they begin to assume that may not be the case. In essence, they are simple girls, girls with skinned knees, who have absolutely no understanding of the world around them.
Primrose, the chubbier and blonder of the two, is an average girl, like Penny, and she really has no concept of the war that is going on and why she
was sent away, not comprehending she was sent away for her own safety. Her worldview, as well as Pennys, is young and innocent and without depth. When the two
girls arrive at the place they will be staying they ultimately end up going out into the forest one night. They are accompanied by another girl who ultimately dies in
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