Cider with Rosie presentation

cyder with Rosie is a memoir of a puerility by Laurie lee. He shares with us what it was worry to grow up without a father, his relationships with his fuss, sisters, fri polish offs, turning into a man, sexual awakening with Rosie, innocence and naivety and what it was like when he lastly lost these characteristic that made him the sweet boy. In the first chapter downwind gives a three course of study olds perception and misconceptions small in relation to objects about him, for example when he got lost in the grass, on the families arrival to their new home, I had never 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 through 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 also portrays this time of his life as scary and daunting due to the fact it was also a daunting time for Great Britain during the war. champion of Lees major influences was that of his mother, a whole chapter is devoted to her. He had a warm and loving 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 often influence his mother had over him. The security he felt from his mother was shown by her sharing a bed 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 bit 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 traitorousness.In return he says I grew a little tougher, a little colder, and turned my attending more to the outside world, which was now emerging visibly thr ough 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 statement 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 used to strip off her habit and allow Lee to examine her body. The way Lee uses metaphors and described her body is in great situation Her body was pale and milk green on the grass, like a birch-leaf lying in the water, more or less curved like a leaf, smoother than candle skins. I think this was just innocent oddity on his behalf because in Lees school days, sex education was not heard of and he had to understand how girls were unlike to boys. The chapters title First bite of the apple is both a cheerful reference to Lees first sele ctive service 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 arms 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 deem of a childhood that seemed filled full with fun, adventure and typical childhood mischief. I enjoyed this book because Lees childhood was similar and different to mine in so ma ny ways. Similar by the way of innocence, and be 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 periodic income, order and tidiness in the house.