There he devoted himself to public affairs, producing only a few poems, the most important of which was "Yatmut" ("Orphanhood"), a long poem about his childhood that he wrote shortly before his death.
Tyler also writes movingly of the early stages of dementia and its fierce denial, of orphanhood and widowhood.
Then there's an explanation of why the odds were actually in the little guy's favour, leading into the real world pay-off: an account of why orphanhood and dyslexia might be what he calls "desirable difficulty" – problems fostering the sort of creativity that leads to success.
The fantasy of orphanhood is a common one.
"And Troy looked up at me and asked, 'What's the point of having a mother?' " In her best work, Fonda has portrayed women who suffer a kind of spiritual orphanhood, emotionally abandoned by families that were never quite families.
I see his point, but it's still a long way from Pippi's merry orphanhood to the emotional voiding and gothic glare of the woman in this film.
"The more you know about him, the more you see him reframing tragic moments of his own life and fixing them in his films," Mr. McClure said, pointing especially to "The Kid" (1921), in which a child's brutal separation from his parents mirrors Chaplin's own effective orphanhood.
Set mostly in Scotland in the late 1950s and '60s, this novel shrewdly recasts both "Jane Eyre and Liveseyy's own childhood, tracing the fortunes of a young girl whose orphanhood is only the beginning of her bad luck.
This, in its invocation of orphanhood, is subtly different from the way the products, and producers, of Bengali humanism saw themselves; yet the whole business of "seeing" was clearly as important to the latter as it has been to Naipaul, and for similar reasons: as something crucial to the creation of an oeuvre, a canon, a tradition.
The death of his mother triggers a terrible murderous rage in Ani - let down, sadly, by Christiansen's pouting face which suggests more than anything else the orphanhood of Bambi.
