Posted by Matthew on August 07, 2008 at 20:55:10 user Picturetaker607.
In Reply to: Great Northern & Characters as Adults posted by Mike Dennis on August 07, 2008 at 08:31:41:
"I feel the same way about AR's characters, we see a small part of their childhood lives as if we have been given privileged access just for a moment; but we have never been allowed to see any more. The series does not ‘end’ it is just we have not been shown anymore about their lives."
I undersgtand what you are saying the books are frozen in time. The children are there to come out and visit me any time I want to read the books. It is amazing how little we know about the characters. We only meet them on holiday for a week or two at a time. We know very little about the life the rest of the year. I suppose I desire to know more about their lives because I have become attached to them. I would love to have tea on wildcat island with them, Or go on a sailing adventure with them. other books have not done that for me. I read the hardy boys as a child but I don't miss them. Or Characters in other books I have read. Don't know how AR did it. but the swallows and Amazons are real people to me.