![]() ![]() What can we learn after we have suffered a great irreparable loss? How can we go on? What she ended up creating was a story that gave the readers a rehearsal for the pains of life.īut it wasn’t simply Paterson’s life: Bridge to Terabithia was about her son, David L Paterson, as a child. So that was what Paterson set out to do, she wanted to understand what we’re supposed to do in the aftermath of a tragedy. Writing a story is about answering a question. Katherine Paterson’s novel Bridge to Terabithia is an attempt to make sense of an inconceivable situation, one few of us are ever prepared for. We ask, “Why did this have to happen?!” This is especially true when the tragedy was the result of an unfortunate twist of fate: a natural disaster. ![]() When something terrible occurs, we often try to make sense of it. ![]()
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