![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lee uses metaphors and similes (often of water) to communicate the child’s sense of adventure. In this chapter, Lee gives a three-year-old’s perceptions and misconceptions : small in relation to objects around him, Laurie crawls among “forests” of household objects : he believes autumn is a season and the war’s end means the end of the world. He examines his infant sensations, his cottage, his yard, his village and Cotswold valley, then local superstitions, village education, his neighbours, public tragedies, private life-stories, his childhood games, village celebrations, sexual initiations, and the eventual changes as his childhood, his close family life, and the traditional village life pass away for ever. The book is organised in accord with his own early exploration of his widening world. He was one of seven children in a close family headed by his mother : he grew up in England, in a Cotswold village governed by tradition. In Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee recalls his childhood and adolescence. Here is an analysis of each chapter in Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee. ![]()
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