The broken bridge door Philip Pullman

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  • 14 november 2001
  • 105 keer beoordeeld
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Auteur
Philip Pullman
Taal
Engels
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Eerste uitgave
1990
Pagina's
304
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The broken bridge door Philip Pullman
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The Broken Bridge
She thought she knew who she was
Door Philip Pullman
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The story is about a Haitian girl (Ginny), who lives with her white father. Her mother died when she was a week. At one day a social worker visits them. She talks a little while and left then. Ginny wants to know why she was here, but her father doesn't say it.
A few days later she sees her best friend Rhiannon. Rhiannon tells her that her big sister has called. Rhiannon hasn't seen her for a long time. Her sister called to ask something about Ginny's dad, if he had been in prison and if Ginny was adopted. When Ginny heard this, she decided to go to Rhiannon's sister. There she finds out that Rhiannon's sister knows Ginny's father and that Joe Chicago had told her this. But she doesn't know if it is true.
She sees Andy, a friend who is black too. By that they feel connected.
The social worker calls and Ginny answered. The social worker was looking for her father. Ginny wants to know what's going on, but the answer she gets is that she must talk to her father. When she does this, her father tells she has a half-brother. His mother is going to die, because she is ill. The half-brother (Robert) is going to stay at their house, because Ginny's father feels responsible for him.
The next day she is seeing Rhiannon again. When they are cycling they talk about Ginny's new brother and they cycle past the broken bridge. Rhiannon tells she know something about a car-accident on the bridge, but she doesn't know anything more then the roomers.
Later she finds out that the story is about a car with a man and baby. The car gets stuck on the bridge. While the man looked for help, he put the baby in his jacket in the car. But somebody stole the jacket and the baby died. For some reason Ginny thinks that she is that baby.
Then Robert comes. Ginny and Robert don't like each other and they fight a lot. But when a couple of Ginny's friends ask her to go to a barbecue and Robert is invited to, he goes with her. At the barbecue Ginny makes a big mistake. She flirts whit Andy, her black friend, but he is gay and she is like the only one who doesn't saw it.
Ginny called Rhiannon's sister again. She wants to see Joe Chicago, because she believes that he is the one that has stolen the jacket from the car on the broken bridge. Rhiannon's sister calls back to say when Joe Chicago is coming to her. Then Ginny is also coming and asks Joe about the story of the broken bridge. She comes back with no information, but she has stolen the jacket from Joe Chicago.
A short time after that she decided to go to her and Robert's grandparents, because she wants to know who she really is. She has seen her grandparents once, when she was 3 or 4. Robert hasn't seen them. Their Grandparents are surprised when they see them.
Ginny starts to ask questions about her father, her mother and Roberts mother. Her Granddad tells her that Robert's mother was the child of their best friends and they were very happy when their son and their best friends' son were going to marry. But at one day their best friend tells them that Ginny's father had told something terrible to Robert's mother, something about another women, Ginny's mother. When Ginny ask something about her mother, her grandmother starts calling names. Ginny can't take it anymore and runs away.
When she goes home by bus, she reads an art-magazine. This magazine shows paintings from her mother! She calls the museum and they say that her mother is coming there tonight. That means that she is still alive! But when she meets her mother, her mother says that she doesn't want anything to do with her.
After that she goes to Joe Chicago's house to return the jacket. Joe seems to be not that scary as she thought he was. And so she sees that the broken bridge story is just a roomer.
She calls her father and he picks her up. On the way they stop somewhere and her father starts telling her the true story.
He wasn't happy when he was with Robert's mother, but they had to get marry because of their parents. Then he met Ginny's mother. He falls in love, but she didn't. But both women get pregnant. Ginny's mother doesn't want to keep her, and Robert's mother doesn't want to adopt Ginny. Ginny get educate by nuns, and her father can she her once a week. But one time Ginny's grandparents take her home. When her father finds out about this, he takes her away from them. For that he went to jail. When he became free, he could keep Ginny.
Ginny was glad that her father told her the true story now. And Robert wasn't that bad after all. And her mother… she had seen her once now, and it doesn't matter anymore to her that this was the only time.

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