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Waterland

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The fenland setting is an important part of the lives of the characters who inhabit it, and the story is an epic demonstrating how consequences echo down the generations. He doesn’t need to, because it’s clear that whatever he had been trying to do with his ‘children,’ it had worked. Le roman est dense et riche, mais aucun élément n'est gratuit: tout s'enchaîne, tout s'agence admirablement bien, preuve que le romancier maîtrise parfaitement son oeuvre.

It’s a random-seeming, fortuitous process, but he wants to fit it into both a coherent story of a life and into the bigger history that it’s his job to teach. After the coroner’s verdict, he can’t take it any more—and this is when the empty Fenland terrain offers no help at all. How many of the events of history have occurred, ask yourselves, for this or for that reason, but for no other reason, fundamentally, than the desire to make things happen? Waterland is about Tom Crick, a history teacher who is losing his job because history is no longer seen as important by his school's headmaster. Lewis Scott, the headmaster of the school he works in, believes history has become somewhat irrelevant.He, his mentally challenged brother Dick, and their friend Freddie Parr are all in love with the same woman. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history—and tell stories . The other timelines seem to offer a tangential commentary on the present-day story that is causing Crick so much grief. The connotations of that image are unbearable—we’ve been party to a conversation about Mary’s eggs in those magical times by the old windmill. Masculinity and Identity: The novel explores themes of masculinity and identity, particularly through the character of Tom, who struggles to come to terms with his own sense of self and place in the world.

This time, the intervening chapters cover his Histrionics (Chapter 13) when, at sixteen, reacts badly to Mary’s refusal to be comforted by the ‘accidental death’ verdict; De la Revolution, concerning Paris in 1789 in particular and the awkwardness of history in general: ‘It goes in two directions at once. In the wake of Mary stealing a child, Crick begins to come to terms with the fact that his wife may be schizophrenic.This personal narrative is set in the context of a wider history, of the narrator's family, the Fens in general, and the eel. He has been spending the summer afternoons with her exploring every last detail of their sexual development. I first read it shortly after moving to Fenland for a few years, and I was still finding the landscape very strange. He is the 50-something Tom Crick, and the framing device is that he is addressing all this to the young people in his classes.

Which, Swift will be expecting his readers to surmise, means that Mary must have lost the baby in a way that has led to a lasting problem. which Crick narrates as though to confirm the inevitability of everything he has ever lived through. The publicity that attends her arrest reflects badly on the school, and Tom is told that he now must retire. Like Chapter 3, it’s largely a fictional account, but the detail in it makes it clear that Graham Swift knows what he is writing about. Helen becomes a nurse, which is how she comes to meet Henry, the man who will become Tom Crick’s father.Tom is appalled and confused, and one of the first things he does is put right his lie about who had been the father of Mary’s child. The traumatic event disrupted the social and economic structures of the region and forced its inhabitants to adapt to new ways of life.

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