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Rose Bush In In A Stranger's Backyard

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One of the rose bushes that belonged to the family had been stolen from their yard when they were interned in one of the camps. After their return, the children search for the rose bush, but never manage to find it. This leads them to assume that someone had planted it in their own backyard. We are also told that the children imagine the rose bush ““blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one perfect red flower after another out into the late afternoon light.” (In a Stranger’s Backyard) This specific quote can leave us wondering why the children imagined a stolen bush blossoming in someone else’s backyard. Why did they not simply forget about the bush? Why did they assume that it was planted, and even healthily growing somewhere else? And why exactly

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