Cider with Rosie presentation

cyder with Rosie is a memoir of a childishness by Laurie downwind. He sh bes with us what it was like to grow up without a father, his relationships with his set out, sisters, friends, turning into a man, internal awakening with Rosie, innocence and naivety and what it was like when he fin all in ally helpless these characteristic that made him the sweet boy. In the first chapter leeward gives a three year olds perception and misconceptions small in relation to objects nearly him, for example when he got lost in the grass, on the families arrival to their new-fangled home, I had neer been so close to grass before.It towered above me and all around me, each blade tattooed with tiger-skins of sunlight. The sense of adventure is communicated finished Lees use of metaphors and similes. Lee is showing childhood as quite a scary daunting time as well as a time when you have an extremely vivid and active imagination. Lee to a fault portrays this time of his life as scary and daun ting due to the situation it was also a daunting time for Great Britain during the war. One of Lees major influences was that of his mother, a whole chapter is devoted to her. He had a warm and attractive relationship with his mother.Lee trusted and admired her, when the stranger appeared in the kitchen Lee writes but he was no tramp or he wouldnt be in the kitchen and he was a soldier, because mother said so. This tells us how much influence his mother had over him. The security he tangle from his mother was shown by her sharing a bottom with him, as a young child making him feel special from the others and so secure. His mother was silent while his sisters told him he had to move into his brothers bed for a splintering when he got older, he was promised that he would return later to her bed. He never did return to her bed, and he described this as the first betrayal.In return he says I grew a flyspeck tougher, a little colder, and turned my attention more to the outside wor ld, which was now emerging visibly through the mist. When Lee says he grew a little tougher, to me, it sounds as if he thought that this betrayal of not been allowed to sleep in his mothers bed was the end of the world. I also get the impression by his line of reasoning that he is growing up and that he has realised that there are other things in life for him to explore. As the innocence and naivety wore off, Lee began to take an interest in the opposite sex, namely Jo, who was a classmate.She employ to strip off her clothes and allow Lee to examine her torso. The personal manner Lee uses metaphors and described her body is in great detail Her body was pale and milk green on the grass, like a birch-leaf dissimulation in the water, slightly curved like a leaf, smoother than candela skins. I think this was just innocent curiosity on his behalf because in Lees school days, sex education was not heard of and he had to figure how girls were different to boys. The chapters title Fi rst bite of the apple is both a cheerful reference to Lees first draught of Rosies hard apple cider and his subsequent fall from innocence.I think his first sexual find out was with Rosie who enticed him with Cider, his first taste and a new experience. He drank and became drunk. Afterwards he says I felt like a giant I swung from the trees and plunged my arm into nettles to show her. This is the moment in Lees life that he changes from a boy into a man. This encounter with Rosie was obviously a key theme in his childhood as why would he put this memory as the title. Was it because at this time in his life he finally became a man, signifying the end of his childhood? This is arguable.Laurie Lee has written about his childhood as he saw it because it is an autobiographical novel that describes his childhood and growing up of the nation. The book has a detailed account of a childhood that seemed fill full with fun, adventure and typical childhood mischief. I enjoyed this book becaus e Lees childhood was similar and different to mine in so many ways. comparable by the way of innocence, and being loved by my family unconditionally, having fun with friends (getting up to mischief) and different by the way of family structure, having two parents, a monthly income, ordinate and tidiness in the house.