“Being a person’s too hard,” she thought.
She thought about Susan, who wanted only one thing, to have Will home, and about her own self not really knowing what she wanted or even who she was. She remembered that she had thought about marrying Will. In this way, the book is as much about what it means to be an individual as it is about time travel or history. The journey changes Rose from being a self-absorbed girl who looked down on her country-bumpkin relatives into a brave and empathetic young woman. War in general is portrayed in a very realistic way, and an antiwar and anti-nationalist message is conveyed persuasively through the comments of disillusioned soldiers and the descriptions of their circumstances.
The historical accuracy regarding the nineteenth-century environment and US Civil War is impressive. Since many people in Susan’s time naturally think Rose is a boy because of her short hair, she decides to dress like a boy to provide a little added protection on the trip. in an attempt to learn what has happened to Will.
By that time, the war has been over for some months, but Will has not returned, and Susan has not heard anything from or about him.Īfter doing some historical research in her own time, Rose returns to the past, and with Susan embarks on a trip to Washington, D.C. Will has gone off to fight in the Civil War. Rose returns briefly to her own time for three days, and then on returning to the past is shocked to discover that Susan has aged three years. Susan, Will and Rose enjoy a wonderful day together, and Rose feels she has found a place where she really belongs. She meets a girl named Susan who works for the parents of a boy named Will Morrissay. Shortly after her arrival, Rose accidentally discovers an abandoned root cellar, and quickly realizes that if she steps inside at just the right moment, she will emerge in the middle of the nineteenth century. Rose is miserable in her new home, partly due to the fact that she has no experience of communicating with other young people, and partly because the family's way of life seems so disorganized compared to that of her very prim grandmother.
When her grandmother dies, Rose is sent to live with Aunt Nan, her husband and their four boys in a ramshackle and chaotic home near Lake Ontario in Canada. After that, she went to live with her wealthy but emotionally distant grandmother in New York. Twelve-year-old Rose Larkin lost her parents in a car accident when she was only three years old. The Root Cellar is a time-slip adventure first published in 1981, which is considered to be a classic of modern Canadian children's literature.
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