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“[Her children’s] absence was a sort of relief, though she did not admit this, even to herself. It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.”
Explanation:
During the war, Judy Duncan see a lot of victims of the war since she works in the hospital within the area that alter her perspective about humanity. In the end, Judy Duncan dies after a bomb was dropped in the hospital where she works.
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I think the evidence that best supports the conclusion that the narrator is telling this story with a particular child in mind is the repetitive use of the second person, addressing directly to the reader.
In addition to this, the excerpt “But once a year all Pau Ammas must shake off their hard armor and be soft—to remind them of what the Eldest Magician could do” sounds like a recommendation or a duty of all Paul Ammas, that the narrator is telling the addressed person that he/she should fulfill as a Pau Ammas.
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