![]() Retracing the narrative path Violet has followed, Violet's friends say they knew they'd find one another some day, " 'Cause when we were in the nursery,/ then were two,/ and later in kindergarten/ and at the beach,/ we kept on looking/ for kids playing music too!" The perspectives and colors in Huliska-Beith's ( Favorite Things The ending scenes strain to make Violet's experience universal. Only when she's grown (or nearly so, it's hard to tell) does Violet find kindred spirits at last. ![]() Starting in the nursery at the hospital, where the newborn Violet is already shaking her rattle, the heroine embarks on a years-long search for "other kids like her,/ who dreamed music,/ thought music,/ all day long." But she cannot find them among the babies in the hospital, the members of her family, the children at school or the sunbathers at the beach. ) story, the rhythm and joy of a child's delight in music comes through in neither text nor art. Although Violet's love of music ostensibly forms the heart of Johnson's ( When I Am Old with You ![]()
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