![]() ![]() ![]() As Charles says: "That summer term with Sebastian, it seemed as though I was being given a brief spell of what I had never known, a happy childhood" (1.2.18). ![]() Sebastian also provides two things Charles didn’t have on his own: a childhood, and a full family. It is Sebastian who leads Charles into this enchanted garden, inhabited by his slew of equally eccentric but contagiously enthusiastic friends. ![]() Check this out: I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city. In his first few weeks at school he "felt at heart that this was not all that Oxford had to offer." It seems he was harboring romantic illusions about a world of intellect, aesthetics, and youthful verve that he just couldn’t find among the majority of his peers. So what draws our protagonist to him? Charles was admittedly on the look-out for something or someone at the time he met Sebastian. And Sebastian has got to be the oddest duck in the Oxford pond. Charles is vehemently warned against him and in fact the entire Flyte family. These two meet when Sebastian pukes into Charles’s bedroom window. ![]()
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