Amelie Childhood

Amelies childhood was never a good one, she lacked playmates due to her father thinking she had a heart condition. Every month Raphael Poulain would check up on his daughter, due to this rare contact Amelies heart would beat at a very fast rate due to her being excited. Her father unfortunatley believed she had a heart condition and she was deprived of School, and friends. She was homeschooled by her mother when growing up and never really had any freedom. Amelie had alot of imaginary friends when she was young, those who would play with her. For example when she is pretending to be a doctor, checking up on the crocodile. Or the comatose wife next door who was 'getting all of her sleep in one go'. Amelie conntinues to have inanimate objectx come to life, or daydream things about her life. This shows she is still child-like and has never really matured mentally.

Amelies best friend in her childhood was Blubber her pet goldfish. But Amandine Poulain decided because Blubber had  many 'suicide' attempts Blubber had to go. She took Amelie with her to the park, and they let Blubber go into the river. Amelies imagination is strong at this point, because she even imagines Blubber looking back up to her as if to say 'goodbye' or 'thankyou'. Amelie was then given a camera as a present. Her imaginations continued to shine through as we saw her taking pictures of the clouds which were shaped like Rabbits and a Teddybear. While she was taking pictures a car crashed, and the neighbour told AMelie that it was her fault for taking pictures. Amelie went home, and flicked on the T.V thinking she had caused many disasters for example a train derailment. Once she realised she had been tricked she went for revenge unplugging his T.V connection while he was watching an important football game. This shows AMelie is mischievious even in her young age, and that she does not like bad people. It also shows the audience that she will not go for physical revenge, but would rather play childish tricks on people like she does later on with Collignon.