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ABSTRACT
This paper addresses the role of personal writing in processes involving writing, processing loss and grief, and identity consolidation, employed in shaping the character of Emily Starr in the book “Emily of New Moon” by Lucy Maud Montgomery, well known for her series “Anne of Green Gables” and for the character of Anne Shirley. Emily, who is dealing with orphanhood following the childhood loss of both parents in a short span of time, uses writing to vent her feelings when in distress and as a way of maintaining contact with her father who died, by writing to him. Later on, the possibility of renewing her emotional connection with her mother through an encounter with the room where she grew up and by writing to her, removes Emily from her state of existential loneliness and brings her closer to her true self, manifested in the creative and spontaneous elements within her.
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Notes
1 The mirror element is familiar from many tales and myths, beginning with Snow White's magical mirror, through Medusa’s fatal reflection, to the magical Mirror of Erised in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, which reflects the deepest wish of those who peer into it. This element symbolizes the discrepancy between the external and the internal, the possibility of peering into the soul when encountering your own gaze in the mirror.