Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Der junge Meuterer
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Readers who love family stories, sisters, fierce childhood devotion and Victorian domestic life will feel at home here. It suits anyone drawn to quirky children, tender humour about animals, and a gentle test of what love asks.
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A Young Mutineer is a Victorian novel by L. T. Meade, who wrote it for young readers and dedicated it to her own little girl, Hope, the real Judy. It follows a fierce, sensitive nine-year-old named Judy Merton and the one person she loves above all others, her eldest sister Hilda. When a handsome young barrister comes courting, Judy's whole small world begins to shake.
The story is set in a country rectory in the village of Little Staunton, and later in a tiny house in London. It is a book about love that does not know how to share, about a marriage that begins with two promises that seem to pull against each other, and about a child who must learn what loving someone really asks of her. Along the way you meet a dreamy clergyman, a fussy aunt, a bitter governess and a calm little girl who adores spiders.
You will find humour, warmth and some real heartache here. The story moves from garden parties to a wedding, from a sickbed to the Royal Academy. Let us begin with the church choir, a wink in a porch, and a child who says her heart holds only one big room.
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- 1Judy keeps one room in her heartFree
- 2A rival appears with a white rose
- 3What Judy sees from the nursery window
- 4The bank fails and a cottage is chosen
- 5A wedding present made of holly
- 6A letter, a faint, and a telegram
- 7A promise, a ring and a furnished room
- 8Three is a crowd, and a visitor arrives
- 9What the story is really about
- 10How the story is told
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Judy keeps one room in her heart
The story opens on a mild September afternoon in Little Staunton, a Hampshire village. The church choir is practising for the Harvest Festival, and a young man in cricket whites leans in the porch listening. Along the avenue from the Rectory walk a governess named Miss Mills and her two pupils, Judy and Babs Merton. Judy is nine, dark-browed and intense. Babs is six, plump, solemn and perfectly calm.
Judy has one great passion, and it is her eldest sister, Hilda, who is eighteen and plays the church organ. Judy has been promised that if she is good she may wait for Hilda at the church, so she works at her lessons with that single thought. Babs loves Judy, but Judy only likes Babs. All her passionate love went long ago to Hilda.
Babs asks her sister a very odd question. How many rooms does she have in her heart? Judy answers that she has one big room, and it is completely full of Hilda. Babs has many rooms. Mr Love lives in some of them and Mr Like lives in others, and she cannot understand why Judy has no space for Mr Like.
The two girls share a love of animals. Judy defends pigs with fierce logic, telling Miss Mills that she eats the poor creature every morning and ought at least to love it. They both admire a fat spider in its web. Babs asks the governess outright whether she loves pigs, and the answer puzzles and irritates them both.
Miss Mills is tired of children and has had enough of Judy's constant talk about Hilda. She keeps reading a letter from someone she says she hates more than anyone in the world. She mutters that it is a mistake to grow fond of anyone and that girls are foolish when they get engaged. Judy listens with sharp new interest, and the words begin to attach themselves to Hilda in her mind.
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Questions about Der junge Meuterer
What is A Young Mutineer about?
It follows nine-year-old Judy Merton, who loves her eldest sister Hilda with her whole heart. When Hilda marries the barrister Jasper Quentyns, Judy must face sharing her, and the book traces how all three grow through the change.
Why is Judy called a mutineer?
Tom Rivers, Jasper's friend, gives her the name. He says a mutineer rebels against the inevitable, meaning what cannot be avoided. Judy first dislikes the word, then begins to understand what it asks of her.
Who is Babs in A Young Mutineer?
Babs is Judy's six-year-old sister, a calm, plump child who loves all animals, even spiders and pigs. Her odd remarks bring humour, and her easy nature stands in clear contrast to Judy's stormy one.
Who wrote A Young Mutineer and when is it set?
L. T. Meade wrote this Victorian novel, which is set in a Hampshire rectory and in London in the horse-cab age. It is a work of fiction, dedicated to her daughter Hope, the child behind Judy.
Is A Young Mutineer easy to read?
The story moves along in short scenes with lively dialogue, funny remarks from Babs and clear feelings from Judy. The plain, warm style makes it very approachable.