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Death Foretold By Clare Woald

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Clare Wald is an accomplished South African novelist who has been through many challenges in her lifetime and has made many mistakes which she regrets. Because of this she is tormented by grief, guilt and emotional pain and has a deep need for absolution from the people who she feels she has wronged. These people include her son, her sister, her daughter, and Sam and although she realizes she will not have the chance to ask them all directly for forgiveness we still see her persist in her attempts, this shows us how desperate she is. By confessing to what she has done wrong and showing deep remorse for her actions, Clare hopes that she can start to feel healed and mend her somewhat ‘haunted’ conscience. At the beginning of the novel she hires Sam to write her biography, this is later revealed to be because she seeks forgiveness from him because of her refusal to take him in when he was a child. At first she is extremely cold and withdrawn towards him. She hopes that he will forgive her for her past. However towards the end of the novel she opens up and she even helps him find peace in some way when she begins to …show more content…

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