Talk:The Other Side of the Hedge

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This story is set in a surrealistic world. For example, the narrator looks at his pedometer to see that his age is 25. And two different worlds are separated only by a hedge. In such a world it is very difficult if not impossible to explain this story in terms we are accustomed to. Maybe the best way to analyze the story is to look at the various symbols' possible meanings and their relationships.

Is the hedge the hedge of a labyrinth of the type found on some of the large estates in England? Is the society that man has made a maze? The story nnotes that mankind left on the path of progress many years ago and had not really gone very far.

Could the idyllic world on the other side of the hedge represent Eden? Or does the author intend it to be England's agrarian way of life that succumbed to the industrial revolution's divergent pattern of progress?

You just won (talk) 05:00, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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