Thursday 11 December 2008

Heidi, I envied her life


Heidi, a girl from Alps. I envied her life very much. Someday I'll have the life of Heidi. I loved this serial very much. Not only me but my family member's never used to miss a single show of this serial. For time being we used to be with Heidi. We used to laugh with her and we used to cry with her. This serial had a great impact on me. I hope someday I'll have life as simple as her and in the midst of nature.


More about her from the net :

Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. Dete brings 5 year-old Heidi to her grandfather, the Alm-Grandfather (originally: Alpöhi; "Öhi" means "grandfather" in the Swiss German dialect of Graubuenden), in order to get a job in Frankfurt. Heidi has a delightful stay with her grandfather in his hut, and with young Peter the goat-herd.
Dete returns 3 years later to bring Heidi to Frankfurt as a companion to a 12-year-old invalid girl named Clara Sesemann. Heidi spends a year with Clara, clashing repeatedly with the Sesemanns' housekeeper Miss Rottenmeier, and becoming more and more homesick. Her one diversion is learning to read and write, motivated by her desire to go home and read to Peter's blind grandmother. Heidi's increasingly failing health and several instances of sleepwalking (it is implied that she has inherited a propensity to epilepsy from her mother) prompt Clara's doctor to send her home to her grandfather but Heidi and Clara continue to write to each other. A healthful visit by the doctor to Heidi and her grandfather convinces him to recommend that Clara journey to visit Heidi. Meanwhile, Heidi teaches Peter to read and write.

Clara makes the journey the next season and spends a wonderful summer with Heidi. Clara becomes stronger on goat's milk and fresh mountain air. Peter is jealous of Clara and pushes her wheelchair down the mountain to its destruction. Without her wheelchair, Clara attempts to walk and is gradually successful.

Clara's Grandmother and Father are amazed and overcome with joy to see Clara walking. Clara's wealthy family promise to ensure that Heidi never has to see her aunt Dete again.



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