It’s really overwhelming. I’m writing this after I watched the movie “My Girl.” The little girl, who must be 11 years old, beautifully portrayed her feelings. She had lost her mom in childbirth. Vada’s mother died two days after Vada’s birth.
Her grandmother suffers from dementia, and her father owns a funeral parlor. These consecutive things traumatized the little girl, which made her visit the doctor frequently out of anxiety. These incidents accentuate her fear of death. She spends the summer with her friend Thomas J., who seems to be a nerd and is allergic to almost everything.
Other children would tease them, thinking of their relationship as not only friendship but more than that. Her widowed father falls in love with the funeral parlor’s makeup artist. After getting to know her father’s relationship, Vada started showing hatred for Shelly.Fear of abandonment made her do things, which included taking efforts to disrupt her father’s date of playing bingo game with Shelly. She was afraid of being left alone. She doesn’t want to lose the love of her father too. On one occasion Shelly’s husband showed up at her house; Vada hoped that he could take her back.
This little girl longed for love, which made her fall in love with her teacher, Mr. Bixler. Vada learns about the poetry class, which is supposed to be conducted for adults, and steals Shelly’s money to pay for the class. She was desperate for love, which made her do impulsive things. Her only comfort is Thomas. J, in one scene, we could see them having a conversation in the woods, and they both share a kiss of wondering how kissing a person would be.
Thomas J. had come to know that Vada had lost her ring, so he went into the woods to look for her ring in order to make her happy but got stung by bees and died eventually since he was allergic to bees when looking for Vada’s lost mood ring. She learns about Thomas J.’s death and stays in the room throughout the whole day, as she couldn’t bear the pain of his death. At the funeral of Thomas J., Vada gets a glance at his body, which has been kept in the casket, can’t hold the grief, and runs to Mr.Bixler’s house and flees away after getting to know about his engagement, and she runs to the willow tree and mourns, remembering the memories she had with Thomas J., who was her only consolation.
Grief also mends the crack that occurred between her and her father, and she started accepting Shelly as her stepmother. Most of the time Vada owns the guilt of killing her mother. Though her mother died 2 days after her birth. Her father explains that her mother’s death was not her fault. Here we learn about how to cope with grief, pain, and trauma. At the end of summer, Mrs.Sennett (mother of Thomas J.) was consoled by Harry Sultenfuss (father of Vada).
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Nice review Jeni………..
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