One Child
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One Child is a book written by the American author and psychologist Torey Hayden, and which was published in the United States in 1980. “One Child” has meanwhile been translated into 27 languages, and dramatized as an interactive opera. In 1995 the story became a film whose title is “Untamed Love”.
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[edit] Plot summary
The book tells the story of a six-year-old girl named Sheila who tries to burn a three-year-old boy. There is no place for her in the hospital, so she becomes a pupil in the class of Torey Hayden, where she spends five months.
During the first time, Sheila is an aggressive, inapproachable and concurrently violative child, who suffers from the brutal separation from her mother and her little brother Jimmie. Since they have left, Sheila lives with her father in a colony which is populated by miners.
Hayden recognises Sheila’s high intelligence and diagnoses an IQ measuring 182. At the end, Hayden’s class is liquidated.
[edit] Allusions/references to actual history, geography and currect science
The story behind this book is factual; it occurred in Iowa in the early 1970s.
[edit] Trivia
Sheila was born in July and is two years older than Jimmie.
That book’s sequel is “The Tiger’s Child”. It tells about the reunion of Hayden and Sheila. Sheila is now thirteen years old, but she strangely seems to have forgotten the exceptional time with Hayden. The psychologist even has to save the young girl’s life.
