Homer is both calm and a fast learner, and he becomes the unspoken favorite of Dr. However, he is always returned to the orphanage and eventually comes to realize that his true home is there. Cloud’s.Īs a baby and a young child, Homer Wells is adopted by several foster families. He calls his book-in-progress A Brief History of St.
He believes that delivering women of unwanted children is “the Lord’s work” and has made it his mission both to help these women and to document his work and the history of the town (67). Larch is also a secret abortionist at the time, abortion is illegal. The director of the orphanage-which is also a maternity hospital-is Dr. The town was once a prosperous logging town but now is mostly abandoned. Cloud’s, in a poor inland valley town of the same name. Its protagonist is Homer Wells, an orphan in rural Maine. The Cider House Rules is a Bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel it is set in the 1930s through to the 1950s. With thanks to Nudge Books for providing a sample Audible copy of this new edition.This guide uses the 2012 William Morrow Kindle Edition of The Cider House Rules. Glad I’ve read it, but I’m also glad it was an audiobook that I could follow while doing other things. Strong themes, which may upset, but I thought they were handled realistically. Some memorable characters, the time and place is quite strongly portrayed and easy to picture, there's a lot of poverty, hardship and pain. Later leaving the small world of his childhood, his journey brings him full circle back to his childhood ‘home’. Homer Wells is one such child, and grows up bounced around at less-than-happy foster homes, meaning he is raised with Larch and under his medical supervision. Women unable to care for their children leave them there, or beg for abortions (illegal operations at the time). Over two generations, Larch and Wells both live and work at an orphanage. With two main characters, the first part mainly gives us the life of Dr Wilbur Larch, abortionist, while the rest is more on his protege and surrogate son, Homer Wells (almost always referred to by his full name). The narrator managed the voices of several very old and young character, male and female, well, without their own gender and age intruding on the listener.
This felt overlong, the story was more slight than the running length, but as I was listening to this as a new audiobook version, I didn't mind as it helped pass long drives and walks.
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