![]() ![]() Larch also worries that they will find out about his abortion services. He is targeted by a meddlesome board of directors, who believe he is too elderly to run an orphanage. Larch is becoming increasingly eccentric and isolated. ![]() Homer remains at the orchard with the couple and stays in a bedroom of his own he and Candy have kept up the deception that Angel is adopted, while remaining secret lovers. ![]() Wally is back from the war, and he and Candy have married he has lost the use of his legs and must use a wheelchair. Cloud’s, still keeping their relationship a secret and telling everyone that their son is an adopted orphan. Cloud’s, they receive a telegram from Olive telling them that Wally is not dead after all he is only severely wounded. Cloud’s to deliver their son, whom Homer names Angel. They keep their relationship and Candy’s pregnancy a secret from Ray and from Wally’s mother, Olive. One night in the cider house, where the orchard workers stay and work during picking season, they conceive their son. Candy and Homer’s relationship turns romantic. One day, the Worthington family receives the news that Wally’s plane crashed over Burma, and that Wally is presumed dead. Wally joins the war draft as a fighter pilot he is sent out to training camps and then to India. She works briefly at another orchard called York Farms and then hitchhikes to Bath, where she works at a shipyard assembly line. Melony travels to different orchards all over Maine looking for Homer but fails to find Ocean View. Wishing to keep Homer out of World War II, he invents a minor heart problem for him he tells Candy and Wally about Homer’s condition but does not tell Homer himself. Larch tries to manage Homer’s life from a distance. He also becomes close to Wally and learns the routines of the apple orchard. He is taught how to swim by Candy and her mother Olive and learns lobstering from Candy’s father Ray. Homer begins a new life at Ocean View with the Worthington family. Furious at Homer’s departure, Melony runs away from the orphanage to find him. Larch and the orphans all understand that Homer will not be returning. While the visit is meant to be a short one, Dr. Wally and Candy are both impressed by Homer and his calm demeanor, and Wally asks Homer if he would like to drive back with them to Ocean View. When Candy finds that she is pregnant, the two travel to St. Wally is the wealthy heir to an apple orchard called Ocean View his girlfriend, Candy, is the daughter of a lobsterman. Homer’s path collides with a young coastal couple named Wally Worthington and Candy Kendall. Nevertheless, Homer and Melony begin a sexual relationship Homer is not in love with Melony, but Melony is in love with him. Larch, who destroys all records of the mothers who drop off their children. Larch’s office, she will perform sexual favors for him. She tells Homer that if he can find a record of her mother’s identity in Dr. Cloud’s and is angry with her unknown mother for leaving here there. He also becomes entangled with Melony, the only other orphan his age. ![]() He decides that while he is not against a woman’s right to choose, he does not want to perform abortions. Larch, who tells him about his secret work at the hospital.Īs Homer becomes a teenager, he begins to rebel against Dr. When Homer discovers a fetus while taking out the garbage, he confronts Dr. However, he eventually begins to assist Dr. Homer begins by helping with maintenance and caretaking chores around the orphanage, such as taking out the garbage and reading out loud to the other orphans at night. Larch decides that if he is to remain in the orphanage, he must be “of use” (7). Homer is both calm and a fast learner, and he becomes the unspoken favorite of Dr. However, he is always returned to the orphanage and eventually comes to realize that his true home is there. Cloud’s.Īs a baby and a young child, Homer Wells is adopted by several foster families. He calls his book-in-progress A Brief History of St. He believes that delivering women of unwanted children is “the Lord’s work” and has made it his mission both to help these women and to document his work and the history of the town (67). Larch is also a secret abortionist at the time, abortion is illegal. The director of the orphanage-which is also a maternity hospital-is Dr. The town was once a prosperous logging town but now is mostly abandoned. Cloud’s, in a poor inland valley town of the same name. Its protagonist is Homer Wells, an orphan in rural Maine. The Cider House Rules is a Bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel it is set in the 1930s through to the 1950s. This guide uses the 2012 William Morrow Kindle Edition of The Cider House Rules. ![]()
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