From what I got of it, she fell off the swing and went into early labor. She then ended up dying during child birth because of this. Is that what y'all got from it, or have I completely missed it?
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That's exactly what happened.
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House. My room. Can't walk. My medal. My father. Father, don't!
You have it right for the movie version. In the book she falls out of a tree. Also just as a note in the book the parents die of cholera not an earthquake.
sharePregnant chicks swinging? Didn't they have better *beep* to do back then?
shareI really thought there was a different explanation in the movie for why/how she died.
Of course I don't understand why the father abandoned Colin. He seemed to be a nice, caring person. It does not make sense he would abandon a child because his mother fell off a swing.
If the garden was closed because the man's wife fell of a swing, it seems stupid to leave the swing and close off the garden.
I try to analyze very many movies, I don't think I am going to try with this one.
However she died, I understood the movie as that the garden was the place that she loved as well as the place that she died. He couldn't stand to be in the garden without thinking of her dying there. If he didn't go into the garden, he wouldn't have to think of his great love lost. At least that's how I take it. It's along the lines of "if I don't see it, it didn't happen." In other words, I believe it to be his way of grieving for his deceased wife.
shareBamtastic's (the person that started this discussion) understanding was that the cause of death was childbirth.
In nearly every movie the writer does something that is illogical just to make the story. So as I said, I am not going to try to figure this one out.
Childbirth was the leading cause of death in women up until the early 20th century.
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In the book, didn't she fall off a tree branch when it broke under her? Which is why Lord Craven hated the garden...
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