Montana 1948
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ESSAY QUESTION
is about the loss of innocence and the painful gain of wisdom. Discuss.
In Montana, the summer of 1948 held a series of tragic events which were to have a permanent and decisive impact on David and his parents. This chain of events were to turn David’s young life and that of his ....
Middle of paper
.... the eavesdropping of his mother and father’s conversation regarding Frank’s behaviour towards the woman on the Indian reservation.
While David must pretend, not just for the remainder of the novel, but for the next forty years, to be ignorant of Frank’s crimes, and therefore of much of what is happening although his parents do not realise that he has overheard their discussions. David’s previous image of Frank along with happy memories therefore were gone, never to return, and wit ....
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Word count: 496
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
