Eventually, one understands that it is the war that caused her all her problems. She had lost both her parents in the war. She had dreamt of the stage, and in return worked hard and saved just so that she could be in Paris. Unfortunately, she realized she lacked the talent and the looks that were needed for her to become successful. By the time she was twenty two, she had not accomplished her dream to succeed since she had no money, no …show more content…
She had come at this bank to be to terminate her life. However, it was only the end of her emptiness and lack of friends. In a minute she saw one puppet, in another she saw seven. all of these puppets came to talk to her and witness what was happening.
To her it appeared so magical yet it was real. The seven puppets brought the reality as they had characters so human such that she forgot they were no human. The puppets became her best friends and they provided to her the warmth she had not experienced before. With the puppet also came true her dream of being in the theatre. She found herself in the magic of theatre and was happy had dreams had come true.
The theme of the book is in the times of our troubles, we need to embrace childlike innocence like Mouche whose interaction with the puppets is a necessity and refuge to forget what she could not cope with. The magic friends and the magic theatre convert Mouche’s world from she wanted to get away from to a world giving her the chance to become a successful actress. Although the world of the puppets is happy, the world of the puppeteer behind these puppets is very unhappy. Like Mouche, the puppeteer was so unhappy and could treat his new protégé and the young boy working with