![]() ![]() She enjoys role playing with her dolls and spending time with her father and making up spontaneous poems with him. What will make her happy and how will she know when she is truly happy? When she is a little girl she is raised by her widowed father and from a young age Joana displays a unique curiosity about life. Joana spends the rest of the novel attempting to answer her own question. Joana comes up with: “Being happy is for what?” ![]() This time Joana asks, “Once you’re happy what happens? What comes next?” The teacher asks her to rephrase the question one more time in different words. One day at school young Joana, the female protagonist in Near to the Wild Heart, asks her teacher a philosophical question that shows she is more thoughtful than most other children: “What do you get when you become happy?” Her teacher is flummoxed at the child’s unusual question so asks Joana to repeat it. ![]()
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