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Marguerite De Angeli's The Door In The Wall

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Rough Roads The Door in the Wall is a thrilling tale that has much symbolism about opportunity’s that can spring up out of disappointment. Marguerite de Angeli who wrote this book, published it in 1949. It is set in England during middle ages, as the bubonic plague was sweeping through. Robin the main character is a young boy who looses the movement of his legs and now can’t become a knight like his father. This symbolizes a door shutting. He then learns how to carve things and play an instrument similar to a harp. This is a door opening. The characters in the story highlight easy and hard times proving that anyone can have doors opened and closed in their lives. Robin who was about ten at the time, had many doors closed in his life.

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