Richard is embarrassed by his first wet dream. As their bodies develop, Lilli starts menstruating and moves her bed to another part of the hut. She reminds them that they will eventually be rescued and return to the civility of their former life in San Francisco.Įven so, Richard and Lilli enter adolescence by themselves. Before her death, however, Sarah writes a touching eulogy and prayer, admonishing the children to keep the faith and maintain their school lessons.
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When Sarah dies of pneumonia, the children must grow up without parental guidance.
Her faith, sprinkled with Victorian modesty, is also evident as she answers Lilli and Richard’s questions about genitals, female menstruation and child birth. Nurturing their spiritual growth, Sarah also teaches the children how to read from the Bible and sings hymns. Enjoying a direct relationship with nature, they consume saltwater fish and island fruits such as coconuts, papayas and mangoes. Over the next eight years, Sarah educates Richard and Lilli in survival, the Christian faith and sexuality. After days adrift, they reach a lush deserted island. Meanwhile, cholera breaks out on the ship, and the young woman and children set off in a rowboat to avoid certain death. Nursing the boy back to health, Sarah names him Richard. Their ship encounters a tiny boat, containing a dead couple and their 2-year-old son, who is miraculously alive. Set in the late 19th Century, their journey begins when Sarah Hargrave, the widow of an evangelical minister, sails home from Tahiti to San Francisco with infant Lilli, her daughter. Marooned on an unspoiled tropical island, young Lilli and Richard innocently grow up without the evils of society, enabling them to discover love within the context of marriage until their blissful paradise is disrupted by the lure of adultery and a boat trip back to civilization.
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