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Doesn't make sense to me....

posted 10 years ago by amberweiss82
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Why wouldn't they leave sooner?

Seriously, I really don't get it.

Maybe easier said than done but its hard for me to believe they had a window, a key to the door that they made, and no supervision the majority of the time.

If they HAD been completely locked in with no window or ability to go down the roof, and then they got the key, I feel like they would have sprung free immediately.

Maybe I'm just more feisty but I would have gotten the F OUT OF THERE waaaaaaay sooner.

They could have stolen stuff a lot sooner and flown the coop. I might have just been a rebellious child but it's so hard to believe they'd stay for years with a working window.

[–] Elphie_Tiggular 10 years ago

I'm sure someone else can put this more eloquently (or at least more detailed) than me (as I have to rush this reply):

Before the key...the children believed their mother, and held the belief of most children that mother knows best and mother would never hurt them. They stayed because they believed in their mother. And even when they had their doubts, they realised that they were only children. Where could they go? Who would believe them? Don't forget that this was the 50's, and a very different world to the one that we live in today.

After the key...they couldn't steal too much as they may have been discovered and then severely punished. This would certainly have finished any plans to actually escape. Plus the fact that they were rather ill by now and didn't have the strength to rush their escape.

Just a few thoughts of mine! Hope they help a little! 😁

ELPHABA: Eleka Nahmen Nahmen Ah Tum Ah Tum Eleka Nahmen.

[–] dutchchocolatecake 10 years ago

Aside from V.C. Andrews being a notional writer - working by theory rather than reality - I think it goes to show that money is a powerful motivator. In the book, they were always talking about ways to spend the vast fortune they would be entitled to once the grandfather died. Going on trips, to the best colleges, having servants, ect.

A lot of people on the Internet have asked this. Yes, it would be logical to find a way to *just leave*, but then they were just children and not only that, their own mother appealed to their desire to be more than ordinary children.

I know V.C. Andrews is a horror writer, but it's entirely possible this book had a moral to the story: idealism, whether religious or financial, destroys people.