The Borrowers-By Mary Norton

The book, The Borrowers, is written by Mary Norton, and has two-hundred pages in total.



This week, I have read eighty-four pages of the book "The Borrowers". The story, so far, introduced a family of borrowers, the Clocks, miniature people less than two inches tall, who live underneath the human house. They make their living on "borrowed" objects such as: post-stamps, match-boxes, sealing-wax, hairpins, potatoes, green-peas, which they consume, or keep forever. The family Clocks are the parents Homily and Pod, and their daughter Arrietty, fourteen year old girl. Their home is behind an old grandfather clock ( that's where they got their surname from), under the kitchen, where they get through a long tunnel. One day Arrietty's father, Pod, was "seen", a terrible thing to happen to a borrower. When they are "seen", it means that a human being saw the burrower, and they sometimes have to immigrate. Pod decides to teach Arrietty to "borrow". It goes all fine until the day she is also "seen" by a young boy. She also befriends him, and that makes her mother furious and her father anxious and unhappy, none of her parents understood that the boy is harmless, and Arrietty's friend. 

HANKERING= A strong desire to have or do something.

"Hankering for what?" Page Fifty-Six.