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A girl lives with her grandfather in a place where they never see the sun, because, when the grandfather was a boy someone built a wall, high enough to block out the sun. The girl decides to do something about it, walks for days until she reaches the wall. Yelling and screaming does no good, but quiet talk gets results.
Hmm. I get the metaphore - walls come down when we discuss things, but, Galbraith's story was confusing. How can a wall, built on the east side completely block the sun, wouldn't the sun as it rises eventually break over the top of the wall. And, it took the girl a couple of days to get there - a wall 2 days away that is so tall it blocks the sun? And the way it came down didn't make much sense either, I wouldn't know how to answer the inevitable questions a child might raise about the story.
Lisa Librarian
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