I Am David
Significance of Maria and Carlo's House
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After he saves the life of the girl Maria (see "Characters"), David is temporarily taken into the home of her parents, Giovanni and Elsa (see "Characters"). The house is expansive and welcoming, luxurious in David's post-prison camp experience but still something of a trap, in which he comes to feel so restricted from being who he truly is that he eventually has to leave.