Literature - La porte étroite (The narrow door)

La Porte Étroite is a French novel written by André Gide published in 1909. It is very sad and moving story which probes some of the complexities and terrors of adolescence and growing up. Based on a very Freudian interpretation, the story uses the influences of childhood experience and the misunderstandings that can arise between two people.

(if you want to read the plot summary go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_porte_%C3%A9troite)

Literature - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland ) 

In the novel we can often find the concepts of wide and narrow, as we can see below.

 

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, Macmillan and Co, 1865, pp.  43 - 54.

Literature

The Wide and the Narrow
Auther : M. E. Dilworth

Story Description
A man’s hunt for his missing cousin brings him face to face with agents of darkness. To rescue his cousin, he must now call enemies allies and face an even greater enemy. Two lonely souls find in each other the parts of themselves that they were missing, and in doing so, they find the balance between perfect discipline and perfect love. A boy succumbs to the brutality in his life and lashes out at everyone, only to find that what he had wanted all along had always been within his grasp. A heartbroken teenager fulfills a dream only to find in doing so he has ruined the lives of the people around him. Now it falls to him to set it right. But how? A pair of children in Western Haiti confront an ancient evil that has plagued their home for centuries. But can mere children defeat an evil that can manipulate the earth itself? A man confronts the evil of his past and must now fight fire with fire when an old enemy returns. Here are six tales of facing the darkness within and without in events that eerily mirror our own.

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