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Her best friend is a neighbor boy named Albert, and as they grow up together, their feelings for each other mature as well.

It is a life of love infused with the taste and smell of the oranges that grow there. Her father gives his only child a beautiful life on their seaside estate. The Woman is born in 1792 in a small row boat in the Mediterranean, and her mother dies in that same boat just moments after delivering her. THE FACELESS OLD WOMAN WHO SECRETLY LIVES IN YOUR HOME is Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor’s third Welcome to Night Vale novel, and it shares the backstory of one of the most intriguing and mysterious characters from the popular surrealist podcast. If you have wondered about this Woman, where she comes from and why she haunts Night Vale, many, but not all, of your questions are about to be answered. Perhaps you hear her whispering to you, or you come home to find that she has set your refrigerator on fire or sent your girlfriend terrible text messages for no apparent reason.

It is only then that the family can perform its primary function of preparing children and the youth well enough for their future responsibilities.In the town of Night Vale, there is a Faceless Old Woman who secretly lives in your home. ConclusionĪmma Darko’s novel, Faceless, is a clarion call on society to take urgent action to make the home and family strong and healthy place for children. Thus they end up bearing children they are not equipped enough to look after. Men like Kwei are portrayed as irresponsible adults who cannot control their sexual urge. Many children in the novel are deprived of adequate parental love and care. Uncontrolled Procreation Coupled with Parental Neglect They wish to be hugged, even if dirty and smelly.

As the children confide in a reporter from a private FM Station, they wish their fathers showed love to their mothers so they, in turn, would smile at them.

Thus, they can only produce unstable families, wayward children and vulnerable street children. The homes portrayed in the novel are mostly devoid of parental love and care. Child prostitution, drug peddling and abuse, pick-pocketing, and violent unspeakable crimes like murder are a common phenomenon among the neglected children of the street. It is in places like this in the big towns and cities that all forms of social evils are perpetrated. The symbolic setting of the novel, Sodom and Gomorrah, says it all.

Simply put, the resources needed to fight crime are not there to be used – one can therefore only sympathize with the unhelpful attitude of the police inspector and his like.

it cannot even boast of a “tattered Tico” (very cheap vehicle).

pathetic-looking Confidential File Cabinet with a missing handle and a gaping hole in place of a lock.The physical state of the police station is a testament to the hopeless and helpless state of governance in this society.In a dismissive tone, he tells Kabria, “Bodies of street children are found at all kinds of places at all sorts of times.” The inspector is surprised that the members of the NGO, MUTE, are interested in the death of a common street girl (Baby T).We are told that the officer in charge simply files away the postmortem report “just in case something comes up requiring further reference to it.” The police station where members of MUTE have gone in connection with Baby T’s death is representative of ineffective state institutions.