« And what would happen to Ben now? » to the end (p. 131 / the end Vintage Edition – p.157 / the end Harper Edition) This is the closing passage of the novel. Ben is about to leave home for good and Harriet and David are about to get themselves a new...
Read moreDoris Lessing is a British writer. She was born in Persia (Iran nowadays) in 1919 and moved to Southern Rhodesia when she was 5. She left her family when she was still very young. She moved to Britain in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the...
Read moreQuotations about the characters : James Lovatt “ His parents had divorced when he was seven.” “ James Lovatt was a boat builder.” “ His real father married one of his kind: she was a noisy, kind, competent woman, with the cynical good humour of the rich.”...
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Passage 6 From page 43 "Happiness had returned and sat at the table with them" to page 45 "She could not believe that David did not see it." Where in the novel : This passage is situated towards the end of Harriet 's fifth pregnancy which has been extremely...
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Passage 5 : From page 35 "Then David went up into the great shadowy bedroom" to page 36 "You bad-tempered cow." Introduction : The passage I'm going to talk about is taken from Doris Lessing's novel “The Fifth Child” whose main characters are Harriet...
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Passage 4: A difficult pregnancy Page 31 "Even before the crowd gathered before the Christmas of 1973, Harriet was pregnant again." to page 33 "Very well, I suppose I'll have to come then." Intro & situation in the novel : After falling in love at a New...
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