In the "Lamplighter" the young eight year old girl Gerty was lost and in need of some serious guidance. Gerty had to endure more than most girls have to experience especially today in this society. I know that there are still young girls around the world that do not know were their fathers are and their mothers have abandon them or died when they was very young. Even though this may be still be the case, young girls today have so many different resources that can provide the assistance they need. In the "Lamplighter" (pg 81) it says that, "Gerty was scolded, beaten, deprived of the crust which she usually got for her super.." Well this sentence clearly tells us that she did not get much to eat at all but this particular night she we to bed without anything to eat. Gerty had no other way of eating except what Nan gave her, but today there are various places that offer homeless and limited income families food to eat.
In the video the young girl found a way to release her stress which was through yoga. Gerty's yoga was the wood-yard that she went to to get away from Nan and the rest of the world. I do believe that if Gerty never got sick she would have been able to go to the wood-yard and her kitten would have never found its way into the house and been killed by Nan. The young girl in the video could practice yoga any where she pleased so she would still be able to calm her self down unlike Gerty.
I do think that if Gerty had the chance to be on the show it would have helped her think of new innovative ways to release the anger she had toward Nan. As well she would have leaned that she should be her self but without the attitude, because no on likes a person with a bad attitude.
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I agree that Gerty was definitly at a disadvantage when it comes to having somewhere to go and calm down and just sort of be alone. And you are probably right if she would have never been sick they the kitten would not have been found but then she wouldnt have been rescued by True! True gave her a chance, he gave her a home and now she could even do yoga if she wanted!
ReplyDeleteI think it's interesting that Gerty finds balance through a place while Anna finds it in a state of mind through yoga. In the end Gerty's safe haven where she could escape the wrath of Nan Grant, the wood-yard, failed her because but she was no longer able to get there because she was sick. It is when Gerty is no longer able to balance her life that the bad comes into it, like her kitty being boiled and her being kicked out of the house.
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