![]() ![]() ![]() We all understand what it means to feel abandoned, ignored, or underestimated. Why? Because each of us knows, in some measure, what they’re feeling. Children who are lost fill us with grief kids who wish to rise above their tough circumstances or go on an epic adventure bring us the highest joy, and we seek these narratives out in books as disparate as Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and Tove Ditlevsen’s The Copenhagen Trilogy. These stories captivate young and old readers, provoking thrill and worry. Beginning perhaps with the binding of Isaac in the Bible, this figure appears everywhere: in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, in Charles Dickens’s oeuvre and, more recently, in Toni Morrison’s. ![]() The neglected or endangered child-the orphan, the vagrant, the waif-is a character with deep roots in the Western canon. ![]()
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