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The cement garden plot5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() And Tom is the youngest and the baby of the lot. Sue is rather bookish and observes all that goes on around her. Julie, the eldest, is almost a grown woman. The story is told from the point of view of Jack, one of the sons, the narrator who is entering adolescence with all of its curiosity and appetites that he must contend with (along with the sure confusion of what the children have done). ![]() Ll of the children are free thinking independent-minded teenagers. Soon after, the mother too dies and the children, fearful of being separated by social services, decide to cover up their parents’ deaths: they bury their mother in the cement garden. In the process, he has a heart attack and dies, leaving the cement garden unfinished and the children to the care of their mother. The father of four children decides, in an effort to make his garden easier to control, to pave it over. So it is with The Cement Garden, the story of dying family who live in a dying part of the city. Summary Ian McEwan is known to skirt the edge with his writing the fringes of society, to test the limits of what we can handle perhaps in our worlds as we bring his writing home with us and allow a whole new being to enter. Sorry, the publisher does not allow users to read this book from the country from which you are connecting. ![]()
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