Liza’s Concept of Love
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and its content is showed in the way she disagrees with what rich people always do with the animals. She does not like the way they have fun by killing animals in
the hunting session. … Next
day Jonathan
started shooting
and Victoria
did too.
There was a
pair of
partridges used
to strut about. I’d got fond of them , red legs and a
beautiful pattern on their backs. She shot them both. I wish I’d had a gun, I’d have shot her…’
p. 172
Since she is used to living in a poor situation, she knows how to survive in the worst condition. When the hurricane comes and destroys many things in
Shrove, she can handle it by herself. Liza is not scared although no one who helps them. Her hard life at Shrove also teaches her to be strong in a way that she can
survive over any minimum facilities she has had. After moving with Sean, things are not even better. Sean, who is poor,
cannot afford any luxurious things for them. However, she never complains because she is used to such a situation where anything is less at the gate-house.
Though life is still not easy for her, she can survive. When they find out that the place to park Sean’s caravan is only a piece of waste ground which has no water
supply near, Liza does not loose her ways. She goes far up the lane to find a stream which tumbles over rocks. Liza who never joins any scouts before knows
how to survive in such situation. Her hard life at Shrove teaches her to do so, because ‘She was full of plans. Of much the world she might be ignorant, but she
know how to manage’ p. 131. Petri writes 1981:6 that we learn through observing, and observation
leads to assimilation. From the description, we can see that Liza has a good appreciation of the nature because her mother always teaches her to love the
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nature. Her life at Shrove with lack of facilities also teaches her to be able to make use of the nature wisely. Hence, Liza is able to survive even in the worst condition
of environment.