![]() ![]() It is decided that it’s now best to send Heidi back to live with her grandfather. This homesickness turns into a real physical degeneration, and Heidi becomes pale and thin. Heidi uses her time productively, and learns to read, but is soon feeling homesick. ![]() While Heidi makes immediate friends with Clara, she finds herself at odds with the strict housekeeper, Miss Rottenmeier. Three years later Deta returns, and it is decided to bring Heidi to Frankfurt to help 12-year-old Clara Sesemann, who is a cripple and cannot walk. ![]() Heidi also meets and makes friends with Peter, a young goat-herd. Deta must offload her niece as she must earn money by going to work for a family in Frankfurt, the Sesemanns.Īlmost immediately Heidi manages to disarm her grandfather with her delightful innocence and simple joy of life. A young orphan girl, Heidi, who has been looked after by her aunt Deta, is brought to live with her reclusive and somewhat grumpy grandfather. The plot of Heidi is pretty straight forward. Yet books don’t get to be classics for no reason, and Heidi proves to be as refreshing as the high mountain air that is the novel’s restorative motif. It’s place in popular culture has become almost ubiquitous, with umpteen movie versions made, most notably starring the queen of cute, Shirley Temple. Heidi is such a perennial classic that it’s easy to assume that it must be somewhat stale, tired and overly familiar. ![]()
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