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"Compare the adult world with a child's perception in 'Snowdrops'". Through a child's eyes, the significance of death and all that surrounds it is somewhat different from the reality. 'Snowdrops' is narrated by a boy of the age of six, who actively takes note of the everyday happenings or abnormalities around him but who is not yet old enough or learned enough to associate these with the feelings and responsibilities of adults. One cold March morning (note that the cold weather is significant as it deliberately outlines the community's feelings about the young man's death) the boy overhears his parents talking about a death at breakfast time. His father enters the room and "fills it with bigness", emphasising the seemingly superior position of adults in the view of a child. The boy's father tells his family of the incident in which the boy, whose family they are in contact with, lost...

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