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Growing up with his curious condition in a seniors’ home, Benjamin seems always to have this broader perspective. These “lifespan stories” provide a much broader perspective that we often fail to appreciate in the midst of our day-to-day activities.
#STRANGE STORY OF BENJAMIN BUTTON FULL#
I have always been a fan of narratives that span the full lifetimes of the main characters, or at least a large portion of their lifetimes. Much of the story involves their interactions as they move in and out of each others’ lives over the next sixty to seventy years. Benjamin and Daisy are roughly the same age at this time, and they become friends-as good of friends as they can be considering that he appears to be in his seventies. When a new resident moves in to the home, Benjamin meets her visiting granddaughter Daisy. It soon becomes obvious that his body is getting younger instead of older, which provides an interesting opportunity to depict the symmetry of life: just like a normal child, Benjamin grows hair and teeth, learns to walk and talk, and outgrows his need for diapers. The doctor predicts that the baby will not live long, but Benjamin defies the predictions. The caregiver living at the home finds him on the front porch and raises him as her own son. His mother dies in childbirth his father, wanting nothing to do with the baby, considers killing him but instead abandons him on the front porch of a seniors’ home.
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When Benjamin Button is born at the end of the First World War, his body is the size of a baby but has more in common with that of an old man: he has wrinkles, cataracts, and severe arthritis. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tells the fictional story of a man who ages in reverse.