22 pages 44 minutes read

V. S. Naipaul

B. Wordsworth

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1959

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Essay Topics

1.

In what way does the relationship between the boy and Wordsworth resemble the relationship between a father and son? 

2.

The overgrown garden at Wordsworth’s house is a tribute to his dead wife. What does the garden mean to him?

3.

The boy’s mother frequently helps the poor and homeless. Can her charity be described as a poem?