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How are children and childhood presented in Enduring Love?
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How are children and childhood presented in Enduring Love? Throughout the novel children are presented frequently. From the beginning of the novel we are told of Clarissa's inability to conceive children. However Joe turns his attention to the many God children that Clarissa has, thus the space that not having children has left is filled with these godchildren. The fact that Clarissa and Joe cannot have children is poignant as Clarissa believes that Joe would make a good father "she would tell me I have good way with children". On page 118 we can see this as Joe is able to talk to children as adults and not in a patronising way. Even he is aware of this, as is shown in the example of Clarissa's God child, as he was thinking of leaving school at the age of 15 and Joe managed to talk him out of it. From the...
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