Heidi

Heidi is the story of a young girl living with her aunt. The story is tragic and heart moving. As the girl grows up with her Grandfather on the Alm she realises that not everything one is told about someone is true and that not everyone is nice. Also, believing in everybody else as an equal and in the same way. The people around her learn this life lesson also in many different ways that can and will touch your heart without a doubt and make you feel as if you were learing these life lessons as well because you are! This is a book for all ages and this story has been and should be told throughout the world. I know it has touched my heart and it will touch yours to just read it!

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In the story, Heidi is orphaned, and is taken by her Aunt Dete to live with her grumpy hermit of a grandfather in the mountains. He refuses to send Heidi to school, so she spends her time in the pastures with a goat herder boy named Geissenpeter. However the bond of love that begins to grow between Heidi and her grandfather is disrupted when Aunt Dete arrives to take Heidi to live in Frankfurt. There she is to become the companion to a partially paralyzed girl named Klara.

Related Topics:
Hermit - Grandfather - Mountains - Frankfurt

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As Heidi grows homesick, the family doctor counsels that she be returned to the Alps, and thus she is sent back to live with her Grandfather. The next summer she is visited by Klara in a wheelchair, but in a fit of envy Geissenpeter pushes Klara's wheelchair down the slope. Left with no choice when she develops an overwhelming desire to see the flowers, Klara forces herself to walk and realises that she is no longer an invalid.

Related Topics:
Homesick - Doctor - Alp

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Thus the beautiful Alps are held by the story to cleanse and heal the mind, body, and spirit.

Related Topics:
Mind - Body - Spirit

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