Ellen foster
Ellen fosterBy: Skeeter
Kaye Gibbons, the author of the novel Ellen Foster, believes that a quote from the Emerson�s �Self Reliance� is connected with Ellen�s struggle to survive and find her way in the world. The first line of this quote says, �Cast the bantling on the rocks� is related to Ellen herself. A bantling is an abandoned child. Ellen is a bantling even though she was not abandoned, she was deprived of a normal childhood. Her life as a child was extremely hard, physically and emotionally. She never had a mother or father take care of her through her entire youth. You could say that her childhood was �cast on the rocks�. The last line reads, �Power and speed be hands and feet�. This reminds me of how Ellen ran from her problems at home and stayed away from her house as much as possible. The line also represents strength and Ellen was a strong person. She dealt with losing a mother, father and grandmother within one year. She never even had a good relationship with her father or grandmother. The short inscription to �Self Reliance� is almost a...
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