![]() ![]() In other ways, she regards Caroline as less bright than herself and as a very real competitor. Sarah Louise knows that in some ways, Caroline has more talents than she herself. They are nevertheless competitors for the love and admiration of parents, relatives and friends. On the one hand, she recognizes that her sister is am integral part of her own being as twins, they share womb memories and many other aspects of their physical and psychological nature. The attitude of Sarah Louise toward Caroline is complex (Paterson, 1980). The relationship of Sarah Louise to her sister - and the equally important relationship she enjoys with God - is evoked by this song and Sarah Louise's response to it. When Caroline is called upon to sing "I wonder as I wander," Sarah Louise finds it to be a lonely song and that she and other members of the audience have been "judged, damned and purged" by Caroline's pure and beautiful voice (Paterson, 1980, p. ![]() ![]() Sarah Louise Bradshaw, the narrator of Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved, both loves and hates her twin sister, Caroline. ![]()
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