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Paul is Harriet and David’s fourth child, who is born sweet and good-natured. As Paul was just born when Harriet becomes pregnant with Ben, Harriet is unable to nurture newborn Paul in the same way she has the other children, a trend that continues after Ben is born, since the infant needs a significant amount of attention and care. Paul, as a result, is the Lovatt child who is most affected by Ben’s presence—he is regularly threatened by his younger, stronger sibling, and eventually he develops emotional “disturbances,” which his parents don’t take as seriously as Ben’s issues. Eventually Paul leaves the house to go to boarding school to escape the threat of Ben.
Paul Lovatt Quotes in The Fifth Child
The The Fifth Child quotes below are all either spoken by Paul Lovatt or refer to Paul Lovatt. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Pages 33 – 74
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“Suddenly the little girl found she was alone. She and her brother had lost each other. She wanted to go home. She did not know which way to walk […] She wandered about for a long time, and then she was thirsty again. She bent over a pool wondering if it would be orange juice, but it was water, clear pure forest water […] She bent over the pool […] but she saw something she didn’t expect. It was a girl’s face, and she was looking straight up at her. It was a face she had never seen in her whole life. This strange girl was smiling, but it was a nasty smile, not friendly, and the little girl thought this other girl was going to reach up out of the water and pull her down into it.”
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Pages 96 – 133
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Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal “disturbed” child, not an alien.
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Paul Lovatt Quotes in The Fifth Child
The The Fifth Child quotes below are all either spoken by Paul Lovatt or refer to Paul Lovatt. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Pages 33 – 74
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“Suddenly the little girl found she was alone. She and her brother had lost each other. She wanted to go home. She did not know which way to walk […] She wandered about for a long time, and then she was thirsty again. She bent over a pool wondering if it would be orange juice, but it was water, clear pure forest water […] She bent over the pool […] but she saw something she didn’t expect. It was a girl’s face, and she was looking straight up at her. It was a face she had never seen in her whole life. This strange girl was smiling, but it was a nasty smile, not friendly, and the little girl thought this other girl was going to reach up out of the water and pull her down into it.”
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Pages 96 – 133
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Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal “disturbed” child, not an alien.
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