![]() But what they were created to do is deadly business.Īs a child of seven, the narrator gives up his room to a boarder, an opal miner from Australia, who takes the family car down the lane and commits suicide. Lettie dismisses monsters as creatures who just do what they were created to do. That is, from the narrator’s point of view. Through memory, he dives in, and takes the reader through its magical and metaphoric depths.Īnd while magic is afoot, a great deal of it is pure evil. As he stakes out a spot near the duck pond, he remembers that Lettie once called this an ocean. He is drawn to the farmhouse at end of the lane through his memory of the girl who once lived there, Lettie Hempstock. ![]() The narrator of The Ocean at the End of the Lane is back in Sussex, England to attend a funeral. Inside they look just like they always have. Outside they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Grownups don’t look like grownups on the inside either. I’m going to tell you something important. ![]() The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman ![]()
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