SuitabookLittle Faith
Mrs. O. F. Walton
- Reading
- Consider reading together and pausing at the bereavement and home difficulties. This allows space to talk about what Faith experiences and how the story’s religious perspective shapes her response.
- Themes
- Faith, prayer and hardship: Faith turns to Jesus for help during hardship, and the story describes her learning to wait for an answer. Faith is presented as central to facing difficulty, with prayer and patience emphasised.
- Care and treatment at home: After Faith’s adoptive mother dies, Mrs Gubbins helps care for the children; Faith is distressed by her treatment and leaves. The plot places Faith’s distress and departure within a changed household after her mother’s death.
- Worth knowing
- Faith’s adoptive mother dies, and Faith is distressed by Mrs Gubbins’s treatment, described as constant abuse in one account. These hardships are important to the plot.