How the Pond Is Important
The Pond is important bond of Kate and Mate
The novel Crow Lake written by Mary Lawson portrays a family that experienced a serious tragedy of when the Morrison parents are died in the car accident. The two characters Kate and Mate are sibling with closed relationship in Morrison family. They have grown up in Crow Lake and spend a sweet memory in the pond. Lawson reveals that the pond is symbolized four stages in Kate’s emotional journey: represent the childhood of Kate, help Kate to discover her career; being guilty while she found Matt destroy his own life and finally learn to accept Matt’s decision.
The pond represents the childhood in Kate’s mind. In Kate’s childhood, she always goes to visit the pond with her older brother Matt near their house. They spend together much of their good time in the pond. In Kate’s mind she thinks Matt is a clever guy and is a role model in her mind because he always explain the wonder of natural world to Kate while they watch the creatures in the ponds. Matt used to carry Kate on his shoulder to the pond and played around the pond. Kate recalls her first trip to the ponds. “ I was so small he had to carry me on his shoulders-through the woods with their luxuriant growth of poison ivy, along the tracks, past the dusty boxcars lined up to receive their loads of sugar beets, down the steep sandy path to the ponds themselves”(4). From riding on Matt’s shoulder to the pond, she starts to know the pond and the natural world. Kate is completely absorbed and learns about the surface tension in the first time, which later on became her research study topic. Kate really cherishes this happy and sweet memory of the time she spends with Matt in the Pond. There, she lied down her stomach and watched into the pond to discover the secret of natural from Matt. It’s a place full of happiest for both Matt and Kate in their childhood time before her parent’s death. It was a place Kate love to go with Matt before she grow up.
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The novel Crow Lake written by Mary Lawson portrays a family that experienced a serious tragedy of when the Morrison parents are died in the car accident. The two characters Kate and Mate are sibling with closed relationship in Morrison family. They have grown up in Crow Lake and spend a sweet memory in the pond. Lawson reveals that the pond is symbolized four stages in Kate’s emotional journey: represent the childhood of Kate, help Kate to discover her career; being guilty while she found Matt destroy his own life and finally learn to accept Matt’s decision.
The pond represents the childhood in Kate’s mind. In Kate’s childhood, she always goes to visit the pond with her older brother Matt near their house. They spend together much of their good time in the pond. In Kate’s mind she thinks Matt is a clever guy and is a role model in her mind because he always explain the wonder of natural world to Kate while they watch the creatures in the ponds. Matt used to carry Kate on his shoulder to the pond and played around the pond. Kate recalls her first trip to the ponds. “ I was so small he had to carry me on his shoulders-through the woods with their luxuriant growth of poison ivy, along the tracks, past the dusty boxcars lined up to receive their loads of sugar beets, down the steep sandy path to the ponds themselves”(4). From riding on Matt’s shoulder to the pond, she starts to know the pond and the natural world. Kate is completely absorbed and learns about the surface tension in the first time, which later on became her research study topic. Kate really cherishes this happy and sweet memory of the time she spends with Matt in the Pond. There, she lied down her stomach and watched into the pond to discover the secret of natural from Matt. It’s a place full of happiest for both Matt and Kate in their childhood time before her parent’s death. It was a place Kate love to go with Matt before she grow up.
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