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A 5 page paper looking at these two children’s books by E.B. White and Katherine Paterson, respectively, in terms of their treatment of death. The paper provides a detailed synopsis of both works, and argues that reading books such as these helps children come to terms with the presence of death in their own lives. No additional sources.
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of old age; sometimes this death seems very shocking, as when a classmate dies as the result of an accident. Many children report, however, that reading fiction which deals with
the life cycle in a sensitive and compassionate manner helps them come to terms with their own confused feelings about death. Katherine Patersons Bridge to Terebithia tells the story of
two close friends, Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke, told from Jess point of view. Leslie has just moved into Jess poor rural community of Lark Creek, and she is very
different from anyone Jess has ever known. His family lives there because they are so poor they cant live anywhere else; Leslies family has moved there because theyve left the
corporate world and are "reassessing their value structure" (Paterson, 32). Leslie also brings into Jess pallid and colorless world a whole new vista of imagination that goes far beyond the
boundaries of milking cows and doing chores and just getting by. It is Leslie who invents Terebithia, their secret land in the woods where she is Queen and Jess is
King and no one else can intrude because they wouldnt understand. The castle at Terebithia (really a little shack Jess and Leslie have made of old boards) is reached by
swinging on a rope across a creek. The creek has become swollen with rain, however, which makes the crossing more treacherous; nonetheless, this does not seem to make going there
any less desirable, but simply an additional challenge that the friends need to overcome in order to reach their goal. On one particular day, however, Jess does not go to
Terebithia because he has been invited by his teacher to go to Washington, D.C. to see the Smithsonian Museum; he tells his mother where he is going, but makes sure
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