The Lost Garden- Helen Humphreys-----Journal 1
The first point of significance that I have found in the Lost Garden, is the point in the book where we are introduced to Gwen Davis. Gwen Davis is moving away from London as the war is destroying all the things that were beautiful to her and this is not how she wanted to remember her home. She travels to a large estate where she will be working with young women and teaching them her passion, gardening, to do their part in the war that's going on. This segement of the book shows you that Gwen is trying to take out all things bad in her life as she cannot stand the war. This section also reveals that Gwen is a very self-conscious lady, worries a lot and is timid. This gives us an idea of her character throughout the book. "I realize, from Jane's position at the head of the table and from her easy manner, that she has the unofficial charge of the girls"(33). We also see that she is not a person who can take charge and she feeds off of people(like Jane) for support while handling the girls. She becomes very emotional when she doesn't understand why things are they way they are, but she keeps her emotions bottled up well, letting no one know how she is feeling. We later find out that these traits that she has could be due to the lack of love that her mother had or showed towards her, or that she was molested by an older man when she was a younger girl. Such factors as these could be the reason that Gwen Davis is who she is today. Therefore this section of the book is significant because it shows character traits that could be significant later on in the book.