The owner of the long shadow

Book title: The Long Shadow Owner Author: Jean Westerham Translator: Buthaina Al-Irahim Publisher: Takween Publications Number of pages: 233 There is an exceptional attraction in stories where orphans stand in the face of their heroism because they are true heroes when they go out into the world and face it with an open chest without a social system that works to support and protect you. Tom Sawyer and even Harry Potter. These are the heroes through whom we learn to love life and truly belong to the world, in the words of Judy Abbott. This novel was written in 1912 and since then has become a source of inspiration for readers, writers, and artists alike, repeatedly adapted into theatrical and musical performances, films, series, and even cartoons. This novel tells the adventure of Judy Abbott, who left the orphanage because one of the guardians decided to take an interest in her education after noticing her exceptional talent in writing and rural writing in particular, and her insistence on happiness as a choice in life rather than a right inherited from birth. Judy Abbott, who receives a scholarship to study at Lincoln High School from an unknown person, whose pseudonym is John Smith, and she invented the name “The Long Shadow Owner” for him. She could not see him or thank him, only saw his long shadow. The only condition Smith set for Judy in exchange for the scholarship was that she correspond with him once a month, without necessarily expecting a reply from him to her messages.