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- Title: Penelope Lively: Moon Tiger
- Author : Katja Staats
- Release Date : January 16, 2006
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 466 KB
Description
Claudia Hampton looks back at her life and during this story the relationships Claudia has to several men play an important role. It seems as if Claudia’s life is divided into several parts. Every part is accompanied by a man or sometimes by two of them. There are three men who are important for Claudia: her brother Gordon, Jasper, who is the father of her child and Tom.
Gordon, Claudia’s brother, who is one year older than she is, has always been one of the most important people in her life. She grows up with him and they stay in contact wherever they are in the world (Lively, Penelope (1988). Moon Tiger. London: Penguin Books, 71).
Claudia feels strongly related to Gordon. She says that Gordon and she “[…] were birds of a feather.” (Lively 1988, 3) In contrast to their intensive connection to each other there is also a certain rivalry. They compete with each other for example for fossils at Charmouth beach when they are ten and eleven. (Lively 1988, 3-6) During this fight, Claudia falls off a cliff plateau, which shows that they take these competitions very seriously. Three years later, they fight for the attention of a young man their mother hired one summer as tutor. The competition begins when Claudia comes into the schoolroom and sees Gordon and the young undergraduate, who is called Malcolm, at work.
I came into the room one day when Gordon was alone with Malcolm, construing Virgil, and I noticed two things: that Gordon was enjoying what he was doing and that there was an affinity between them. Malcolm’s hand rested on Gordon’s shoulder as he bent to look at an exercise book. I looked at the hand – a lean brown hand – and then at Malcolm’s face with its thick dark eyebrows and brown eyes intent upon Gordon and what Gordon was saying. And I was filled with hot jealousy; I wanted the hand on my shoulder; I wanted that adult, male, and suddenly infinitely attractive look trained upon me. (Lively 1988, 24-25)
They argue a lot, even when they get older. But then they explode in laughter when the argument suddenly ends (Lively 1988, 34).